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Associate, New Verticals - Flex Strategy & Operations
Doordash INC · 🇺🇸 New York, NY; San Francisco, 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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Sponsor Radar — Doordash INC
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 The New Verticals team is building the future of local commerce through expanding our product offerings on our marketplace platform. We launched New Verticals in 2020 and have since built a world-class delivery platform enabling delivery across Grocery, Convenience, Alcohol, and Retail third party partners and through our home grown DashMart business. Our Strategy & Operations team has their footprint on everything from merchant strategy to consumer experience to dasher experience and beyond! About the Role We are hiring two team members to join our New Verticals Strategy & Operations team to focus on our highest priority initiatives at any given time. This means - you might work on growth for a few months then pivot to a supply chain role or spend some time working on logistics challenges. The sky’s the limit in this role - you will gain exposure to company wide initiatives and high priority sprints, across multiple verticals while making a big and quick impact. You’ll gain a breadth of experiences across Grocery, Convenience, Alcohol, Retail and DashMart. You will move daily metrics, run a/b tests, launch new initiatives and so much more while working cross-functionally with product, engineering, finance and other folks on strategy & operations. You’ll be an individual contributor. We operate in a hybrid and spend a few days a month in person together! You must currently be based in New York or San Francisco. This role does not offer relocation and is not open to fully remote employees. We will be conducting batch interviews so please submit your application by Friday 8/7 as we are aiming to fill this role by early September with a start date no later than 9/28 . You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… • Operate . Stand up 0→1 pilots, build dashboards, manage week-over-week KPIs and turn wins into scalable processes. • Launch. You may launch net-new merchants, experiment new initiatives and run in market tests. • Analyze. Build models using Excel and SQL to evaluate expansion opportunities and prioritize the next bets. • Build. Translate consumer, merchant and dasher needs into product requirements, operational improvements and tangible outcomes • Collaborate and Influence. You’ll partner with and lead cross-functional teams across product, engineering, finance, marketing and other folks on strategy & operations. We’re excited about you because… • You have 1-2+ years of experience. You’ve succeeded in similar cultures that are highly analytical and cross-functional (banking or consulting preferred) • You’re unafraid of ambiguity. Rapid change and learning is exciting to you, and you thrive in ambiguous, startup environments where you can be creative and scrappy. You will work on a project basis, so being comfortable in high levels of ambiguity with the expectation of making impact fast is a must. • You’re analytical. You let data win arguments, and you’re comfortable pulling your own data in SQL and building models in excel. • You’re adaptable. You are constantly chasing new tools and ways to become more efficient and know where, when and how to use AI. • You have a completed Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Business Administration, or relevant field. • You are ready to join and excited about a hybrid work environment. You must be able to start full-time by October 26th, 2026 and currently be based in New York or San Francisco. We are not accepting applications of candidates outside of New York or San Francisco, relocation is not offered. 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 locali