Associate Manager, Ads Platform Growth Efficiency - Strategy & Operations
Company: DoorDash
Location: San Francisco, CA
Type: Full-time
Level: mid
Posted: 2026-02-19
About this role
About The Team
Our Advertising & Promotions team broadly operates at the intersection of e-commerce and advertising, surfacing and monetizing relevant content that benefits our core audiences. We provide digital solutions to help advertisers reach DoorDash audiences.
The Ads Platform Strategy & Operations team is responsible for: 1) Driving sales and campaign lifecycle efficiency via automation & process optimization, 2) Building the platform foundation to help us scale, and 3) Creating simple self-serve tools for Merchants to drive GMV growth.
About The Role
As an Associate Manager on the Ads Platform S&O team, you’ll work cross-functionally to develop processes and tools that allow for our business to scale during a period of hypergrowth. Specifically, your work will improve how we bring Ads & Promos campaigns to life across Sales, Insights, and Ad Operations along with Product, Strategy & Operations, Accounting, Finance and more. Specific areas of focus will include:
- Leveraging Gen AI to revolutionize how we sell, build, and optimize campaigns as this will be instrumental in driving scalability and shaping the future of our Ads Platform
- Implementing, managing, and scaling sales & operations via offshore resources, automation tools, and streamlined end-to-end processes
- Partnering with sales and merchants to identify product-market fit for key resources and streamline go-to-market strategies to drive product adoption
- Scoping and building the tooling and efficiency roadmap leveraging both internal and external resourcing
You’ll report to the Sr. Manager, Ads Platform Strategy & Operations.
You’re Excited About This Opportunity Because You Will…
- Build: You are eager to implement efficiency and automation, understand and work with systems, and explore the best ways to leverage Gen AI that will unlock our ability to scale.
- Analyze: Use data-driven decision-making to run and scale experiments on everything from developi...