Associate, Enterprise Strategy & Planning

About the Team

Our sales and partner management teams are the heart and soul of DoorDash, enabling us to sign and partner with top restaurants and New Verticals merchants to drive revenue and help our partners operate and grow their businesses. As DoorDash grows both in scale and breadth of offering, the strength of our sales engine and organizational structure must grow with it. Our Enterprise sales organization partners with the largest national and regional restaurant and New Verticals brands across the US and Canada, from signing new partners to growing and retaining our most strategic accounts.

About the Role

DoorDash is looking for a strong individual contributor on our Enterprise Planning & Strategy team to execute top company business objectives and help define the sales planning roadmap for our Enterprise sales organization, spanning restaurants and New Verticals.

Your responsibilities will range from strategic (designing quotas and incentives aligned to the company's goals and strategy, integrating new products into sales GTM strategy and building consensus among sales leadership) to operational (forecasting, designing compensation plans, driving plan implementation and ensuring key metrics can be communicated, tracked and commissions calculated). You’ll bring a strategic mindset and strong analytics to the design and administration of sales incentive programs, while building trusted partnerships with Sales leadership. This role supports our US and Canada Enterprise sales organization across multiple sales motions and role types. You'll be a planning and strategy partner for a sales motion built on large, high-value partners, where forecasting accuracy and consistency, fair and well-understood compensation plans, and seller productivity are the north stars. This role will report into a Manager, Enterprise Planning & Strategy.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Own quarterly goaling and quota setting for Enterprise Sales teams across restaurants and New Verticals
• Design, document, and administer sales compensation plans and SPIFFs
• Track attainment and calculate payouts accurately and on time
• Build forecast and target models that support the Annual Operating Plan (AOP)
• Partner with Sales leadership, Finance, and Product to ladder sales goals into company goals and bring new products into sales GTM
• Use AI and automation to streamline planning, reporting, and commissions workflows

We’re excited about you because…

• You have 2-4 years of experience in one of the following fields: sales planning, sales operations, sales strategy, incentive compensation, or revenue operations
• You have a Bachelor's Degree or higher
• You’re an excellent analytical thinker who can deliver actionable recommendations out of complex datasets. Proficient in SQL and Excel/Google Sheets.
• You have expert communication and interpersonal skills
• You’re entrepreneurial – You have a bias towards action, an ownership mentality and are able to thrive in a fast-paced, constantly changing work environment
• You’re naturally curious – You always look for ways to innovate and improve and want to share the vision and direction of the company
• You’re a relationship-builder – You can influence and motivate people at all levels across a variety of job functions
• You’re a problem solver – You can independently translate high-level goals into actionable plans
• You’ve built AI-driven automations or tools that remove manual work, and you know when to trust AI output and when to verify it.

Nice to Haves

• You have experience with sales incentive design
• You have experience with Incentive Management tools (e.g. Anaplan, Xactly)
• You have experience supporting enterprise, strategic, or large-account sales teams
• You have experience with Salesforce

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 localized according to employee work location.

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.

$78,200—$115,000 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 all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.

Statement of Non-Discrimination: In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash. We value a diverse workforce – people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Thank you to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non-discrimination.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.

If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.

Notice Regarding Use of AI and Automated Tools: To streamline our hiring process, DoorDash utilizes an automated recruitment tool called Metaview.

How it works: Metaview assists our recruiting team by evaluating job related qualifications and characteristics in connection with hiring. The tool is designed and used to support - rather than replace - human decision-making; trained personnel make final decisions with meaningful human review and oversight, and DoorDash does not use Metaview or other AI-enabled tool in a manner that has the effect of subjecting applicants or employees to discrimination based on any protected characteristic or proxy or for engaging in any protected activity under applicable law.

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