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Senior Associate, Strategy & Operations - Commerce Platform Logistics - Delivery Cost
Doordash INC · 🇺🇸 New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; Los Angeles, CA; Chicago, IL; Sunnyvale, CA; Austin, TX; Denver, CO; Atlanta, GA; Miami, FL; Boston, MA; Phoenix, AZ; Washington, D.C.
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 DoorDash’s Commerce Platform empowers merchants with the tools they need to grow and operate their businesses. Drive On-Demand is a key component of this platform, providing white-label fulfillment solutions for retailers across multiple SLAs. The Commerce Platform Logistics team is a sustainable growth team within Commerce Platform. We own Final Mile cost and efficiency, ensuring that DoorDash Commerce Platform is the most cost effective, reliable way for merchants to reach as many customers as possible through their first-party channels. This means expanding product offerings and improving network efficiency to simultaneously reduce fulfillment costs and unblock growth for merchants while providing Dashers with valuable earnings opportunities. About the Role At DoorDash, our goal is to empower local economies. A key part of that mandate is to improve fulfillment efficiency and costs to allow more merchants to scale e-commerce channels. We are looking for a leader with an “and not either/or” mindset who is passionate about driving sustainable growth. As a Senior Associate, Strategy & Operations – Delivery Cost, you will play a key role in analyzing, tracking, and improving fulfillment cost and efficiency, partnering with cross-functional teams to identify trends, scope impactful initiatives, and support the execution of network efficiency improvement strategies. Your work will be both strategic and deeply operational. One day, you might be sizing the impact of a change to how we batch orders. The next day, you could be deep diving an escalation from a merchant or dasher and leading an experiment to drive real-world improvements. As the part of this team, you will: • Partner with Finance & Strategy to track and analyze fulfillment cost metrics across different lines of business and strategic merchants. • Support the development of internal reporting tools to measure and monitor fulfillment cost and efficiency improvement efforts. • Partner with Analytics and Product teams to scope and assess initiatives that can improve fulfillment cost and efficiency. • Assist in structuring and executing operational tests to learn quickly and inform the product roadmap. • Engage with cross-functional teams to support initiatives that enhance merchant and customer experience. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… • Support fulfillment cost initiatives that tangibly improve the profitability of DoorDash. • Analyze key fulfillment cost metrics and contribute to defining north star metrics that track performance improvements. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Finance & Strategy, Product, Analytics, Engineering, and Operations) to manage the P&L and identify key levers for fulfillment cost improvement. • Run structured experiments and operational tests to uncover the best ways to improve fulfillment cost and efficiency. We’re excited about you because… • You have a bias for action and can operate effectively in fast-paced, ambiguous start-up environments. • You have strong analytical skills and can use data to identify trends, uncover root causes, and drive informed decision-making. • You are comfortable working with data —Deep SQL and Excel/Google Sheets expertise required. • You have experience creating financial models. • You are execution-focused and can break down complex problems into actionable steps. • You thrive in a cross-functional environment and are comfortable working with Finance & Strategy, Product, Engineering, Analytics, and Operations teams. • You are highly detail-oriented and have a strong ability to organize, track, and analyze performance data. • You are customer- and merchant-obsessed and excited to help merchants scale their first-party fulfillment through Dri