Associate Manager, AI Research Lab Strategy & Operations

6 days, 16 hours ago
Full-time
Senior
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
DoorDash

DoorDash

DoorDash empowers small business owners by providing an affordable and convenient platform for local delivery services, primarily focusing on restaurant food delivery.

Air Freight & Logistics
10K-50K
Founded 2012

Description

  • Partner with merchants, sales, support, product, and engineering teams to reimagine core experiences through AI.
  • Own high-priority AI initiatives and serve as the accountable business owner for revenue-driving bets.
  • Lead business planning cycles and develop go-to-market strategies for AI-powered products and capabilities.
  • Manage execution through structured project plans, resource allocation, and KPI tracking.
  • Define what should be measured, why it matters, and how performance thresholds should be set.
  • Build and localize business metrics and measurement frameworks across geographies and market types.
  • Drive AI adoption across DoorDash by enabling non-technical teams with enterprise tools, workflows, and experimentation sandboxes.
  • Build scalable AI foundations including evaluation datasets, guardrails, monitoring systems, and custom foundation model strategies.
  • Operationalize frontier technologies from external partners into production systems and revenue-generating capabilities.
  • Lead rapid experimentation cycles to validate product-market fit and measure business impact.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree.
  • 5+ years of experience in finance, management consulting, business operations, business analytics, or high-growth/early-stage startup environments.
  • Exceptional communication and operational leadership skills for working with merchants, sales, support, and internal stakeholders.
  • Strong analytical thinking and the ability to bring structure to ambiguous, fast-moving problems.
  • Comfort working in 0-to-1 environments and frontier-AI research contexts.
  • Hands-on experience using AI tooling such as Claude Codex, Codex, or Cursor in day-to-day work.
  • Direct experience productizing LLM/ML systems, such as shipping features, building eval datasets, or running model-performance feedback loops, is a strong plus.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $124,000 to $155,000 USD, depending on location and experience.
  • Opportunities for equity grants.
  • 401(k) plan with employer matching.
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
  • 11 paid holidays, paid time off, and paid sick leave.
  • Wellness benefits, including wellness expense reimbursement and a mental health program.
  • Commuter benefits match, disability insurance, basic life insurance, and family-forming assistance.

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