Advanced Specialist, NV Merchant Sentiment

Tempe, AZ

About our Organization

Our Merchant Experience Ops team lies at the heart and soul of DoorDash, ensuring that we set all of our merchants up for success by providing a seamless experience to merchants on our platform. The New Verticals team sits within the Merchant Experience Organization and is one of DoorDash's new exciting initiatives. As DoorDash grows to be a market leader in on-demand restaurant delivery, the opportunity is clear for new horizons and new products to expand our scope in the Retail space.

About the Team

Our New Verticals Merchant Sentiment team ensures that when things go wrong in the last mile, there's always someone there to help. Our team creates and administers DoorDash's massive and expanding global network of support centers to provide the greatest customer experiences possible, with the ultimate goal of delivering an exceptional customer experience as efficiently and reliably as possible to our merchants.

This team meticulously optimizes the Managed Merchant interface across all facets of the DoorDash platform. They handle everything from setting up essential account information like bank routing to helping merchants update and expand their inventory and ensure their POS integration system is operating effectively.. Additionally, they actively participate in quarterly business reviews to measure and enhance Managed Merchant revenue, ensuring continuous comprehensive support and improvement.

This role will be assigned a schedule that may include evenings and weekends. These schedules will be adjusted periodically to meet the needs of our business and our merchants.

At DoorDash, we believe in fostering a culture of meaningful connection, collaboration, and professional growth through in-office interactions. This position requires an in-office presence at the DoorDash corporate office in Tempe and the employee must live within a commutable 50 miles from the office. In-office days are determined by the business and can change based on business needs.

About the Role

We are searching for a Merchant Sentiment Specialist to work with our New Vertical Merchants, both managed and unmanaged, solving their most pressing challenges and creating opportunities to improve their overall experience as we continue to scale our last-mile logistics platform.

This role will be assigned a schedule that may include evenings, weekends, and holidays. These schedules will be adjusted periodically to meet the needs of our business.

As a Merchant Sentiment Specialist, you will partner with Account Owners (AO) to ensure overall Merchant success on the DoorDash platform through proactive and reactive contacts. This includes but is not limited to weekly syncs with your AO partners and recurring meetings with the Managed Merchants on your assigned roster.

You will develop long-term relationships with our highest-value/volume Managed Merchants by providing excellent customer service, relationship management, and strategic problem solutions, such as partnering with AOs on suggesting promotions or expanding delivery radius when stores are underperforming and strategies for overall Managed Merchant health on the platform.

You will serve as the main point of contact for Managed Merchants in your assigned roster in partnership with their internal DoorDash Account Owners.

You will be analytical, have prior experience delivering efficient execution and communication, and be eager to solve our Managed Merchant's most challenging problems.

This position establishes DoorDash's Managed Merchant support as a standout competitive differentiator in the industry, delivering a dedicated, high-quality, and meticulously detailed support experience explicitly tailored to our Managed Merchants.

You're excited about this opportunity because you will...

• Collaborate with Account Owners weekly and troubleshoot support issues for Managed Merchants in your respective roster, including but not limited to payment issues, portal issues, menu updates, and other advanced support issues.
• Take inbound contacts from Managed Merchants experiencing real-time—non-live order-related—issues ranging from account log-in support to changes of ownership and more.
• Build relationships with high revenue/volume Managed Merchant partners by being the primary contact and expert for their support operations. Including participation in quarterly business reviews and other regularly occurring meetings to align on overall Merchant health
• Promote retention and overall Managed Merchant success through service and proactive outreach via phone, email, or Zoom calls.
• Pilot different experiences from time to time to learn how we can invest in our highest value Managed Merchants
• Troubleshoot and resolve catalog and inventory issues within our internal bulk tools and Google Sheets.
• Prioritize and elevate issues in partnership with internal teams
• Develop expertise in how DoorDash's systems and resources work and how to use them to promote positive outcomes for our Managed Merchants
• Play a key role in improving Managed Merchant experience

We're excited about you because...

• You have 3+ years of experience in a high-volume support center, customer support, or other high-volume support-related field.
• Experience providing advisory and partnership-level support through both proactive and reactive interactions with end users
• You are proficient with Salesforce (or other CRM software), and have the ability to view and interpret dashboards/data.
• Proficient with G Suite - including GSheets/Excel
• Experience with SQL/Mode is a plus
• Experience in a metric-driven support environment
• You excel at building cross-functional relationships and determining prioritization.
• You're creative and love identifying areas where we can improve the end-user experience.
• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Bachelor's Degree preferred.

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We used Covey as part of our hiring and/or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT in NYC. As part of the hiring and/or promotion process, we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound from August 21, 2023, through December 21, 2023. We resumed using Covey Scout for Inbound again on June 29, 2024, and ceased using Covey Scout for Inbound on April 30, 2026.

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.

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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.

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