Associate, Retail Partnerships

We are looking for a top-performing Sales Development Representative to join our Retail Sales team and help us land and expand partnerships with mid-market Retailers in the US- this role will have a majority focus on apparel, footwear, and accessories to start. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of success in sales, a curiosity for the Retail industry, and a natural motor for building pipelines and developing net new business. This candidate will also have the opportunity to support existing retail partners with key growth initiatives and performance goals.

About the Role

As a Retail Sales Development Representative at DoorDash, you will help us acquire new business and expand existing partnerships in our rapidly growing DoorDash New Verticals division. You will partner directly with our Account Executives with the goal of building a strong sales pipeline. You will also have the opportunity to help build the playbook for our developing team.

You’ll leverage AI-powered insights, data-driven signals, and emerging tools to shape strategy, inform decision-making, identify opportunities, and drive growth across complex, enterprise-level engagements. By integrating AI and data-enabled analysis into day-to-day workflows, you’ll improve prioritization, execution, and business impact while partnering cross-functionally to translate evolving platform and AI capabilities into clear, tangible value for partners and the business.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

Refine the playbook — you will be able to work collaboratively with managers and other representatives to create the best processes within your team.

Scale your impact — you will get the chance to talk with all levels of decision makers to help our sales team achieve new business acquisition goals

Growth Potential- our New Verticals team is continuously growing and developing. You will have the opportunity to grow your career and knowledge base.

What You’ll Do

Own, develop and refine the process to successfully partner with grocers across the DoorDash Drive and Marketplace product suites

Develop the sales strategy and execution for engaging Mid Market Retailers

Effectively Manage the pipeline across all top of funnel phases of our relationship

Manage the deal process with internal stakeholders to draft compelling proposals for prospective partners

Steer the development, adoption and scaling of new business opportunities

Partner closely with operational teams to document learnings from sales processes to help us build out a best-in-class product

Accelerate a highly organized sales cycle with the goal of closing new deals

About You

Impact Driven -- You have a natural desire to make a huge impact on the business

Curious -- You love digging into low levels of detail to extract insights about your product and your customer

Strategic -- You love to find the win-win and develop sales structures to grow business with partners

Gritty -- You roll up your sleeves and do whatever it takes to make things successful

Self-motivated - you are able to achieve daily, weekly, and monthly goals while meeting quarterly quotas.

Problem solver - you can independently translate high-level goals into actionable plans

Experience leveraging data, AI-informed insights, and emerging AI tools to drive strategic decisions, enhance productivity, and improve outcomes in complex business environments.

Strong ability to interpret AI-generated insights, synthesize them into clear, actionable recommendations and executive-level narratives, and influence stakeholders.

Baseline fluency in AI concepts, with a willingness to continuously learn and adopt new technologies as AI capabilities become increasingly embedded in workflows, products, and customer interactions.

Qualifications

1-2 years of experience in sales development

Experience independently owning sales conversations and maintaining a pipeline

Strong verbal and written communication skills

Ability to operate in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

We expect this position to be filled by 7/10/26.

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.

In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants and sales commission. Talk to your recruiter for more information.

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.

$71,400 — $105,000 USD

The total on-target earnings (base + commissions) for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.

$102,000 — $150,000 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 by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order 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