Strategic Implementation Associate
DoorDash
About the Team
The New Verticals SMB Implementation team is critical to success for DoorDash’s exciting new business ventures. We manage onboarding and first month success for merchants joining the platform.
About the Role
We’re hiring a Strategic Implementation Associate, the most senior level on the Implementation team. This role will based in the US and specialize in Canadian liquor merchants, with the potential for US merchants and other verticals based on business needs . You will own the merchant relationship after sales contract signature through go-live and first month growth. This includes helping merchants prepare necessary information to launch, keeping merchants engaged through set up, unblocking issues, training/orientation, and pitching improvements for quality and growth. You will achieve team goals by ensuring organized merchant preparation, accurate inventory set up, and successful operations for our merchants.
Strategic Implementation Associates will work on DoorDash’s most complex and nascent emerging business lines, and/or demonstrate higher goal attainment on standard business lines than lower level peers. You will test ambiguous new product features, partner integrations, and team processes as we continually evolve the New Verticals platform and Implementation team. You will heavily collaborate on solutions with cross-functional peers on Pre-Sales, Success Management, and product. You will collect and share product feedback internally as voice of the merchant to inform strategic roadmaps.
This role will be remote, with potential for occasional in-market merchant visits, and occasional in-person team meetings.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…
- Engage merchants every day at all stages of the sales cycle from sign through post-launch success.
- Problem solve technical merchant issues as project manager.
- Leverage internal data and reporting tools to drive operational efficiency and growth opportunities.
- Test and execute on strategic go-to-market initiatives, while capturing learnings to scale.
- Collaborate with cross-functional peers and represent the Implementation team as a senior team member.
- Own a business segment, providing product feedback and helping to build new processes and strategies.
We’re excited about you because…
- You have 5 years of applicable experience in Implementation, Customer Success, or Account Management, ideally technical.
- You create meaningful customer relationships through a consultative approach and partner with merchants to understand their needs.
- You are comfortable project managing many onboarding components at once, while providing clear guidance and concise communication to our merchants.
- You dive head first into challenges and seek to resolve at the lowest level of detail while keeping a merchant-first approach.
- You’re comfortable with highly operational and data-heavy workstreams.
- You can summarize merchant and product learnings into themes to inform internal recommendations.
- You collaborate and communicate with cross-functional teams in a concise, clear, optimistic way.
- You’re excited to help build out nascent products and processes.
- You’re energized by the ambiguous, fast evolving workflows of new business lines and do not expect refined processes.
- Optional: You have some experience with POS systems, Open API, and/or SFTP integrations.
- Optional: French language fluency
Applications for this role are accepted on an on-going basis.
Compensation
Actual compensation within the pay range listed below will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior relevant experience, and specific work location. Base salary is localized according to employee work location.
In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants and sales commission. The estimated pay range for this position represents total on-target earnings (including base salary and on-target incentive pay). Talk to your recruiter for more information.
DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package for all regular employees that includes a 401(k) plan with an employer match, paid time off, paid parental leave, wellness benefit and several paid holidays.
Additionally, for full-time employees, DoorDash offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, a commuter benefit match and a mental health program, among others.
To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.
About DoorDash
At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.
DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.
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