DoorDashSenior Manager, Merchant Strategy & Operations
Nov. 2019 - Dec. 2020Dallas-Fort Worth MetroplexLed company-wide strategic initiatives, including critical product, analytics, and strategy integrations. Caviar was acquired by DoorDash from Square in 2019. Highlights:
DE FACTO CHIEF OF STAFF - Integrated DoorDash and Caviar OKRs and KPIs: curated weekly performance update for C-Suite, exposing misalignments; created growth opportunities by highlighting high-impact product builds.
ESTABLISHED NEW VERTICALS - Developed strategy for mom-and-pop restaurants: established new partnership with SquareSpace to cross-sell websites to create digital presence and increase online orders.
M&A INTEGRATION - Co-led the integration of Caviar and DoorDash marketplaces into a seamless consumer, merchant and courier experience post-acquisition: kept two consumer-facing storefronts to differentiate the premium brand, while streamlining back-end payment, logistics and infrastructure; led hardware deployment to limit disruption caused by acquisition.
PARTNER / ACCOUNT GROWTH AND RETENTION - Won premiere restaurants’ trust by building order-throttling mechanism to handle primary customer objection: quantified potential $30M churn risk and collaborated with CEO to ensure product prioritization and guarantee acquisition terms were met; responsible for retaining $XXmm in gross revenue from acquisition.