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Associate, New Verticals - Pharmacy Strategy & Operations
Doordash INC · 🇺🇸 New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; Los Angeles, CA; Washington D.C.; Tempe, AZ; Mountain View, CA
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 396 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 147 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Doordash INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles17 certified filings for “Associate Manager, Sales Strategy and Operations” (Operations Research Analysts) in NY: $104k–$160k, median $124k. Most were filed at wage level IV (35%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 396 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 147 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
About the Team Our New Verticals team launched in 2020 with the purpose of delighting our customers and empowering local communities outside of just restaurants. Since then, we’ve launched Grocery, Convenience, Alcohol, Retail, and DashMarts while also building merchant services, dasher tooling and consumer products. New Verticals is the growth engine of DoorDash’s business and we are continuing to build and scale new businesses everyday! About the Role We are hiring an Associate to work on one of our newest businesses on the New Verticals Strategy & Operations team to help launch and scale a pharmacy delivery service. You will work on identifying expansion plans, ways to improve consumer quality, operational excellence, and sustainable growth by identifying & executing against strategic opportunities. In this role, you might work on initiatives like: • Identifying, validating, and launching high-impact “0-to-1” initiatives that unlock new growth opportunities across the convenience merchant base • Developing initiatives that strengthen DoorDash’s position as the preferred destination for pharmacy delivery through improved selection, discoverability, and quality • Leading operational improvement projects focused on increasing order accuracy, fulfillment speed, and overall customer satisfaction • Streamlining in-store fulfillment processes to improve efficiency and create a seamless experience for Dashers and merchant partners • Developing and executing on programs that improve inventory accuracy and ensure real-time platform availability reflects in-store stock levels This roles sit at the intersection of strategy, operations, and product. The best operators today are rapidly generating new ideas, taking ownership over metrics and moving them in the right direction through building product visions, synthesizing complex analyses and testing every idea — all while leveraging AI to uplevel how we operate. We expect this person to stay at the forefront of how AI is reshaping the work, actively exploring new tools, automating repetitive workflows, and finding ways to do in hours what used to take weeks. This is an individual contributor position and you will report into a Senior Manager on the team. We operate in a hybrid model and spend a few days a month in person together. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… • Strategize. From first principles, you’ll develop the optimal strategy for best serving all sides of the marketplace - dashers, merchants and consumers. • Operate . Own tracking dashboards and manage week over week metrics to drive high quality operations. • Analyze . Build models using Excel and SQL to evaluate the economic, operational and strategic costs and benefits of various programs and experiments — and increasingly, use AI to accelerate and deepen that analysis. • Experiment. You’ll transform strategies into operational experiments, product features and net-new tooling that create measurable outcomes. • Build with AI . You'll use AI tools to automate manual processes, build new prototypes and develop product visions. You'll be expected to push the boundaries of what's possible with AI in your day-to-day work, and share what you learn with the team. • Lead, collaborate and Influence. You’ll partner with and influence cross-functional teams including growth, quality, finance, product and engineering to launch initiatives to the finish line. We’re excited about you because… • You have 1-3+ years of experience. You’ve succeeded in similar cultures that are highly analytical and cross-functional (whether in tech, operations, strategy, consulting, banking, or a related experience). • You are an owner. You're always looking for opportunities to better your work product and own the outc