About the Team
Door Dash’s Commerce Platform is one of the fastest-growing segments in the company—distinct from our Marketplace business. Whereas Marketplace serves Door Dash’s own app customers, Commerce Platform powers merchant-owned e Commerce channels by fulfilling orders directly for their customers (e.g., a order where Petco owns the checkout experience, and Door Dash fulfills delivery). Within Commerce Platform, the Logistics team focuses on cost efficiency and sustainable growth across Retail Merchants with multi-day service level agreements and Final Mile delivery in Parcel networks. Our mission is to make efficiency a competitive advantage —reducing costs for merchants so they can grow, while ensuring high-quality deliveries for customers and fair pay for Dashers.
About the Role
We’re hiring a highly analytical, execution-focused individual to help drive cost improvement initiatives. As the part of this team, you will:
Partner with Finance on weekly Dasher cost performance, identifying trends, root causes, and missed targets.
Work with Product, Engineering, Analytics, and Operations to design and execute initiatives that improve network efficiency and optimize Dasher pay.
Contribute to net current ideas and assess the impact of product-driven cost changes.
Focus on scoping, sizing, and prioritizing cost improvement initiatives.
Support operational tests to uncover high-impact levers for cost reduction.
Partner with Product and Engineering to roll out cost initiatives that scale.
You’re excited about this opportunity because…
Data mastery: You can confidently speak to weekly cost trends and portfolio performance at a granular level.
Execution: You don’t just model opportunities—you see them through from concept to deployment.
Cross-functional influence:



You bring Finance, Product, and Operations along with you to implement change.
Innovation: You contribute fresh ideas to improve efficiency, cost fairness, and merchant growth.
We’re excited about you because…
Must Have Skills:
SQL and BI tools (Mode, Sigma, Tableau)
Excel/Google Sheets expertise
Financial modeling & forecasting
Analytical rigor & resourcefulness
Experience working cross-functionally with Product & Analytics
Strong communication skills
Track record of owning strategic initiatives in high-growth environments
Self-starter mindset & adaptability
Nice to Have:
AI tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor)
Computer Science background or coursework
Statistics or predictive modeling experience
Typical Backgrounds:
Start-up Operations/Business Operations
Consultant
Strategy & Operations Analyst
Product Analyst
Investment Banking Analyst
Business Analyst
Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis
Compensation
The successful candidate’s starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee’s work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future.
In addition to base salary,



the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information.
Door Dash cares about you and your overall well-being. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 401(k) plan with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act). Door Dash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.
See below for paid time off details:
For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month).
The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.
$87,000—$128,000 USD
About Door Dash
At Door Dash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order fo

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