Technical Program Manager, Logistics
Location: United States – Remote
About the Team
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!
About the Role
Our team is looking for a Technical Program Manager for our Logistics Engineering Team to drive engineering efforts related to: implementing new product offerings/ features, helping teams improve reliability, and expanding our platform capabilities to scale & power our growing business. Programs will require a strong technical understanding, general cross-organization coordination/facilitation, stakeholder management, and ownership of results.
You will report into the centralized Technical Program Management team in Engineering. Once our offices reopen, we expect this role to be 100% remote, or hybrid for employees who want to work in a DoorDash office location.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will
- Own Engineering Programs –You will partner closely with Engineering, Product, Operations and other key stakeholders to establish the scope, technical direction, and success metrics for those programs. Focus areas for your programs will also include building partnerships with other product engineering teams and executing to enable multi-vertical scale.
- Planning & Execution Optimization – You will drive optimizations related to planning Engineering objectives and key results, develop frameworks for team execution/tracking and provide visibility to resource allocation and prioritization.
- Technical – You will develop a full understanding of our technical stack and interdependencies, allowing you to contribute to designs and ensure they are scalable, reliable, and efficient.
- Stakeholder Management – You will manage expectations for all stakeholders from leadership to individual teams, possess strong problem solving and negotiation skills, and earn trust of partners and teams.
- Navigating the Organization – You understand engineers and enjoy working with them, building trust by developing strong technical domain knowledge that adds value beyond project management.
- Communications – You’ll manage timely and succinct communications to leadership and across teams to ensure accountability and timeline management.
- Process – You’ll develop processes to ensure teamwork is streamlined to manage complexity and optimized velocity. You are thoughtful about how and when to implement processes with a light touch and clear understanding of success within DoorDash’s culture.
- Time Management – You’ll balance urgency and priority while moving the needle on multiple initiatives.
We’re excited about you because
- You are highly organized and care about the details.
- You celebrate your successes, but also admit your missteps and learn from feedback — we’re all human.
- You are curious, growth-minded, and eager to expand your skill set. You have a passion for building scalable systems, enabling product efficiency, and moving teams forward.
- You understand both the big picture and the details.
- You are a self starter and can demonstrate adaptability, resilience, and ability to thrive in ambiguity — things change quickly!
- You lead and influence teams to make the right trade offs.
- You are pragmatic in your approach and focus on progress, not perfection.
Qualifications
- 2+ years recent experience as a Technical Program Manager at a technology company.
- Experience working with platform engineers and large-scale distributed systems. You can speak to system architecture, scalability and reliability decisions, and design trade offs.
- Excellent written & verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with confidence, clarity, and focus. Able to convey concepts and considerations to non-experts and experts alike.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to collaborate and build relationships across organizations, bridge gaps between teams, and successfully influence without authority.
- Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive. You are willing to roll up your sleeves and dive into the details to understand and drive your programs.
- Direct engagement with Engineering teams on product development with a thorough understanding of software development processes. Project planning and execution skills that include reviewing technical design documents, estimating, and scheduling.
- Excellent attention to detail and understanding of impact when changes occur to scope or timeline.
- Experience working in a startup environment desired.
- Experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering or other related disciplines desired.
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 with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering 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.