Associate Manager, AI Research Lab Strategy & Operations

DoorDash, Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Francisco, CASunnyvale, CALos Angeles, CASeattle, WANew York, NY
Salary
$124,000–$155,000 / yr
Posted
59 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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About DoorDash, Inc

DoorDash, Inc. is an American company operating online food ordering and food delivery. It trades under the symbol DASH. With a 56% market share, DoorDash is the largest food delivery platform in the United States.

DoorDash, Inc currently has 187 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Associate Manager, AI Research Lab Strategy & Operations

Associate Manager, AI Research Lab Strategy & Operations joins the AI Research Lab to bridge frontier research with scalable production systems. This role sits at the intersection of customer insight and technical innovation, where you will convert advanced AI capabilities into revenue-generating products and infrastructure. You will manage business planning cycles, develop go-to-market strategies, and establish data-driven measurement frameworks for high-priority initiatives. Day-to-day responsibilities include partnering with merchants to identify pain points, building evaluation datasets, establishing safety guardrails, and operationalizing external partnerships into internal tools. The role requires expertise in business operations, analytics, or management consulting, alongside hands-on experience using AI tools like Claude Codex, Codex, and Cursor. You will solve the challenge of translating complex research breakthroughs into durable competitive advantages by managing rapid experimentation cycles and ensuring technical progress aligns with tangible financial outcomes across various product areas.

What you'll do

  • Translate frontier AI research into scalable, production-ready systems and revenue-generating product capabilities.
  • Own high-priority AI initiatives by linking technical progress to specific financial outcomes and business goals.
  • Develop go-to-market strategies, project plans, and resource allocations for AI-powered products.
  • Create new business metrics and data-driven measurement frameworks to track AI performance across different markets.
  • Drive internal adoption of AI tools and workflows for non-technical teams across the organization.
  • Build scalable infrastructure including evaluation datasets, safety guardrails, and monitoring systems for AI models.
  • Lead rapid experimentation cycles to validate product-market fit and measure tangible business impact.

What we're looking for

  • Must have a Bachelor's degree.
  • Must have 5+ years of experience in finance, management consulting, business operations, business analytics, or high-growth startups.
  • Must be an exceptional communicator capable of partnering with internal teams and external merchants to identify pain points and drive adoption.
  • Must be an analytical thinker able to create measurement frameworks and extract actionable recommendations from complex research.
  • Must have hands-on experience using AI tools like Claude, Codex, or Cursor to accelerate discovery and prototype workflows.
  • Experience productizing LLM/ML systems, including building evaluation datasets or running performance feedback loops, is a strong plus.

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