Senior Technical Program Manager, Product

You’re experienced in working with platform and/or product engineers and large-scale distributed systems. You can speak to system architecture, scalability and reliability decisions, and design trade offs.

You’re a strong leader with the ability to collaborate and build relationships across organizations, bridge gaps between teams, and successfully influence without authority.

You have strong ownership, urgency, and drive. You are willing to roll up your sleeves and dive into the details to understand and drive your programs.

You have excellent written & verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with confidence, clarity, and focus. You can convey concepts and considerations to non-experts and experts alike.

You’ve engaged with Engineering teams on product & platform development with a thorough understanding of software development processes and project planning.

You are pragmatic and detailed in your approach and focus on progress, not perfection.

Our team is looking for Senior Technical Program Managers for our Dasher & Logistics, Marketplace, Merchant, as well as New Verticals Engineering teams. You will be driving important engineering-wide initiatives related to convenience & grocery and empowering local economies by helping merchants open, grow and operate more profitably. Platform areas span mobile and backend interfaces. Programs will require a strong technical understanding, strong cross organization coordination/facilitation, stakeholder management, and ownership of results.

You will report into the centralized Technical Program Management team in Engineering.

Own Platform Programs

- You will partner closely with Dasher & Logistics, Marketplace, Merchant as well as New Verticals engineering organizations, as well as key engineering and product leaders to establish the vision, strategy, technical direction and success metrics for our engineering teams. Focus areas for your programs will include evangelizing platform visions, executing strategic projects to enable multi-vertical scale, and adoption by product engineering teams.

Plan & Execute Optimizations

At DoorDash we’re building the industry’s most scalable and reliable delivery network to support our three-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and dashers. TPMs on our Engineering teams provide fundamental support to the underlying technology services as well as the engineers building these services. It’s no simple task, but it wouldn’t be interesting if it was!