Director, Analytics, New Verticals Consumer

About this 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 build products to enable Grocery, Convenience, Alcohol, and Retail delivery through the DoorDash marketplace. The NV Consumer Analytics team guides measurement, strategy, and tactical decision-making across the NV Consumer organization through experimentation and analysis.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Director of Data Science to lead a broad and high-impact scope of NV Consumer. In this role, you will shape how we measure success, guide product and operational strategy, and build the data foundations that help cross-functional teams move quickly and make better decisions. Success in this role means building a high-performing team, developing frameworks that inform prioritization across and within areas under scope, and raising the quality and speed of decision-making. You will report into a Senior Director on our NV Analytics team in our Analytics organization.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Lead and grow a team of data science and analytics leaders and practitioners across a portfolio that spans from 0→1 products to our most high traffic Cx-facing product surfaces

• Own the analytical direction for NV Consumer, including goal formulation, frameworks for opportunity identification, data tools for cross-functional partners, and scaled experimentation and measurement.

• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Strategy & Operations, Design, and Finance leaders to influence product roadmap, growth playbook, and investment decisions.

• Build the operating system for decision-making by upleveling data foundations, democratizing data access through AI-enabled tooling, and connecting short-term measurement with long-term business outcomes.

• Operate with broad scope and high autonomy in a startup-like environment while benefiting from the support and talent density of a scaled analytics organization

• Drive impact at scale as a key cross-functional leader in a large and fast-growing business unit

We’re excited about you because…

• You have 10+ years of experience in Data Science, Analytics, or a related quantitative field, including significant experience leading senior teams and developing managers.

• You have strong product and business analytics judgment, with a track record of defining metrics, building decision frameworks, and influencing strategy in ambiguous environments.

• You have deep expertise in experimentation and causal inference, and you are comfortable making decisions in settings with imperfect data, evolving products, and non-obvious tradeoffs

• You bring hands-on technical fluency in SQL and statistical analysis, and you can go deep enough to raise the technical bar for the team while operating effectively at a leadership level.

• You have experience working cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and business leaders, and can translate complex analysis into clear recommendations that drive action

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.

DoorDash 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). DoorDash 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.

To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here .

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 if working 20 hours/week).

The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado. $255,000 — $375,000 USD

About DoorDash

At DoorDash, 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 food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.

DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from al

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