Strategy & Operations Manager - Ads & Promotions Supply

Los Angeles, CA (On-site)

$136K/yr – $200K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive monetization strategy and end-to-end optimization for a global ads platform, partnering across Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Sales to scale revenue and improve advertiser and user outcomes.

  • Own monetization problems end-to-end with a single-threaded ownership and measurable impact on revenue
  • Must-have: 6+ years in strategy/operations/monetization or ads, with cross-functional collaboration and SQL preferred
  • Standout: ability to scale solutions globally using standardized frameworks across pricing, formats, inventory, and user experience

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own key business metrics and deliver against revenue, efficiency, and experience goals
  • Drive initiatives end-to-end from problem definition through launch and iteration
  • Develop data-driven insights and business cases to inform product strategy and prioritization
  • Partner cross-functionally across Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Sales
  • Act as a bridge between business and technical teams to ensure solutions are both strategically sound and operationally scalable
  • Be an owner: operate as a single-threaded owner for critical monetization problems, defining strategy and driving execution end-to-end
  • Build systems: design scalable frameworks that power the ads business—not just one-off solutions
  • Solve complex problems: approach ambiguous challenges with structured, first-principles thinking and strong business judgment
  • Shape the product: partner deeply with Product, Engineering, data science, and sales to influence what gets built and how it works
  • Drive impact at scale: your work will directly impact revenue, advertiser outcomes, and the consumer experience across markets
  • Design and evolve pricing and bidding mechanisms
  • Build frameworks that unify ads and promotions into a cohesive ecosystem
  • Develop scalable pricing systems (e.g., dynamic pricing, reserve pricing, experimentation frameworks)
  • Partner with Product and Data Science to define models, inputs, and success metrics
  • Drive adoption and performance of monetization features across advertisers
  • Define how our ads platform scales across global markets
  • Establish standardized frameworks across pricing, formats, inventory, and user experience
  • Build systems that balance global consistency with local flexibility
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to scale solutions across regions
  • Develop playbooks to support international expansion and long-term platform growth

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in strategy, operations, monetization, or ads (e.g., marketplace, pricing, growth, or ad tech)
  • Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Data Science teams
  • A proven track record of owning ambiguous, high-impact problems end-to-end
  • Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills (SQL preferred)
  • Ability to operate at both a strategic level and dive deep into data and execution
  • Experience with pricing, monetization systems, or marketplace dynamics (preferred)

Preferred

  • Experience with pricing, monetization systems, or marketplace dynamics (preferred)
  • SQL preferred
  • Cross-functional collaboration with Product, Engineering, Data Science teams (preferred)

Benefits

  • 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.

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