Associate Manager Product Operations, Autonomy Commercialization - DoorDash Dot

<div class="content-intro"><p><img style="display: none; max-width: 100%;" src="https://click.appcast.io/greenhouse-te8/a31.png?ent=34&amp;e=22630&amp;t=1701374353806" width="1px"> <img style="display: none; max-width: 100%;" src="https://track.jobadx.com/v1/i.gif?utm_pixel=224e990b-8ff4-4287-8d5d-2ff09647f181&amp;utm_ptz=EST&amp;utm_rqt=track" alt="" width="1"></p></div><h2>About the Team</h2> <p>DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash. We explore robotics and automation to transform last-mile logistics in the long term. If you want to work on commercializing autonomy and robotics in a service used by millions of people — and on bringing the merchant partners who power that service along with us — then we want to talk to you!</p> <h2>About the Role</h2> <p>Come help us redefine last-mile logistics through robotics, automation, and other advanced technologies. Autonomy only works when merchants — restaurants, retailers, and other partners — can reliably interact with our robots: handing off orders, troubleshooting edge cases, and trusting the experience enough to keep using it. This role owns that side of the equation.</p> <p>We're looking for a Merchant Success &amp; Growth lead to build the strategy and operational mechanisms that get merchants onboard, keep them performing, and turn their day-to-day reality into a tight feedback loop for product and engineering.</p> <h2><strong>You're excited about this opportunity because you will…</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Own merchant adoption and performance KPIs for autonomy end-to-end — defining what "successful merchant interaction with a robot" means, instrumenting it, and driving improvement against it.</li> <li>Build the playbooks and operational mechanisms to onboard merchants to autonomy — from first conversation through training, go-live, and steady-state ops — and scale them across markets.</li> <li>Partner with sales, account management, and field ops to recruit and ramp the right merchant cohorts for each stage of the product, and design experiments that test new merchant-facing features and handoff models.</li> <li>Define merchant performance benchmarks (handoff success rate, dwell time, dasher/robot interaction quality, merchant CSAT) and run the cadence that holds partners and internal teams accountable to them.</li> <li>Stand up the feedback loop from the field back to product and engineering — turning merchant complaints, edge cases, and frontline observations into prioritized inputs that change what we build next.</li> <li>Be the voice of the merchant inside Labs: advocating for their constraints in product reviews, roadmap planning, and launch decisions.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>We're excited about you because…</strong></h2> <ul> <li>You have a Bachelor's degree in business, operations, or a related field, or equivalent related experience.</li> <li>You have 3–6 years of experience in Strategy &amp; Operations, Merchant/Partner Success, Product Operations, Business Strategy, or a closely related field — ideally with time spent owning a partner-facing KPI end-to-end.</li> <li>You've built operational mechanisms from scratch — onboarding flows, performance reviews, escalation paths, feedback loops — not just run mechanisms someone else designed.</li> <li>You're comfortable in the field. You'll spend time with merchants and on-the-ground ops teams, and you treat that as a feature, not a bug.</li> <li>You think in metrics. You can define a KPI, instrument it, and tell the difference between a real signal and noise.</li> <li>You communicate clearly across audiences — translating frontline merchant pain into crisp product asks, and translating product/engineering tradeoffs back into language merchants and field teams understand.</li> <li>You're biased toward action in ambiguous, early-stage environments. You're energized by problems that don't yet have an owner or a process.</li> <li>Bonus: experience launching new technology, hardware, or operationally complex produ