Associate Manager, AI Research Lab Strategy & Operations
Core
Translating frontier AI research into scalable, production-ready systems and revenue-driving products for DoorDash's consumers, merchants, and dashers.
Role type
Associate Manager, Strategy & Operations (AI Research Lab)
Builds
AI-native interaction models, revenue-driving AI initiatives, scalable AI foundations (evaluation datasets, guardrails, monitoring), and production systems.
Domain
Food delivery / AI / LLMs / ML
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Business planning & go-to-market strategy, revenue ownership & financial outcome linkage, business metrics & measurement framework development, AI tooling (Claude Codex, Cursor), LLM/ML productization, rapid experimentation cycles, stakeholder partnership (merchants, sales, engineering), ambiguity navigation, 0-to-1 environment execution.
Preferred skills
Direct experience productizing LLM/ML systems (shipping features, eval datasets, feedback loops).
Technologies
Claude Codex, Codex, Cursor, LLMs, ML systems
Responsibilities
Partner with in-field merchants and internal teams to unify initiatives into an AI-native interaction model; Own revenue-driving AI initiatives as accountable business owner; Lead business planning cycles and develop go-to-market strategies; Develop new business metrics and measurement frameworks; Build scalable AI foundations including evaluation datasets and guardrails; Operationalize frontier technologies from external partners; Lead rapid experimentation cycles to validate product-market fit.
Seniority
Mid-level Manager, hands-on IC