Associate Manager, Demand Forecasting and Tracking - Strategy & Operations

About the Team

Our Advertising & Promotion team operates at the intersection of e-commerce and advertising, surfacing and monetizing relevant content that benefits our core audiences. We’ve built a retail media network that enables CPG advertisers to reach DoorDash audiences and drive sales and category growth. This role will help accelerate CPG Ads growth by building and scaling net-new demand channels through strategic partnerships.

About the Role

You will report into the Director of Go-To-Market and Demand on our CPG Ads team within Ads Strategy & Operations. In this role, you will own the strategy and creation of our partner demand and forecasting capabilities. You will:

• Own Partner GMV Forecasting: Leading the development of our capabilities to accurately project CPG partner growth that will occur on the DoorDash platform. 
• Own JBP Scenario Planning: Empowering our sales and partnerships team to effectively model different outcome scenarios based on different investment decisions based on CPG partnership goals and objectives 
• Establish Demand Tracking Capabilities: Help the team to diagnose business performance and what is driving weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual performance vs plan. 
• Support our Internal Planning Process: Work cross functionally with finance and sales operations to help ensure that we are building the most accurate and effective internal revenue goals.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you can…

• Own: You are energized by building new tools and processes to help internal teams be more effective and efficient. 
• Data Mastery: You enjoy working across multiple data sources, synthesizing various data sources and leveraging them to build accurate revenue forecasts. 
• Problem-solve: You thrive in ambiguity and turn constraints into solutions.
• Collaborate: You excel at influencing cross-functionally and aligning stakeholders on projects that require input from multiple teams. 
• Enable: You enjoy translating sales team needs and pain points into solutions that can be built to enable them to be successful.

We’re excited about you because…

• You have 4+ years of experience in retail, CPG or media forecasting and analytics. 
• You have a track record of building scalable forecasting tools that empower internal teams to be successful. 
• You bring strong business and analytical rigor, with advanced SQL and analytics experience. 
• You are comfortable using AI tools to accelerate your output (i.e. Cursor, Claude Code) 
• Bachelor’s degree required.