Merchant Category Specialist

You're excited about this opportunity because you will...

• Sourcing & Vendor Management: Identify, source, and onboard local vendors across high-priority categories, managing relationships to ensure long-term success.
• Vendor Partnership Management: Serve as the primary point of contact for local merchants, managing vendor integration, tooling, item accuracy, and product availability to deliver a high-quality customer experience.
• Category Ownership: Own the performance of your categories, managing both established vendor accounts and new pilot launches with a data-driven, strategic approach.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with supply chain, procurement, menu specialists, marketing, and local operations teams to ensure smooth vendor onboarding, order execution, and product replenishment.
• Marketing & Merchandising: Create and execute marketing campaigns from the ground up-including banners, inserts, sampling programs, and CRM pushes-to drive visibility and sales for local products.
• Assortment Optimization: Use sales data and customer insights to optimize the local assortment, making strategic decisions to expand, discontinue, or adjust offerings.

Why You'll Love This Role:

• You'll be at the forefront of growing DashMart's local vendor presence, directly impacting the customer experience and vendor success.
• You'll work cross-functionally with key teams and build campaigns that bring local brands to life.
• You'll develop a deep understanding of both the DashMart and Marketplace ecosystems, contributing meaningfully to business strategy and execution.

We're excited about you because you have...

• A strong ownership mentality and the ability to work independently to achieve results.
• Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail, enabling you to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, allowing you to build relationships with local vendors and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Proficiency in Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel is required, ability to draw trends from data, and SQL experience preferred.
• Prior experience in Sales or Account Management preferred.
• Bachelor's degree preferred.

We expect this position to be filled by 8/5/2025.

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.

$18.20-$30.60 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 with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering 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.