About the Team

DoorDash is looking for top-talent to help grow our New Zealand New Verticals business! We're looking for experienced individuals with deep retail market knowledge to allow us to best serve our consumers, Dashers, and merchants. Join our never-ending pursuit to better power economies in New Zealand and across the globe.

You’ll leverage AI-powered insights, data-driven signals, and emerging tools to shape strategy, inform decision-making, identify opportunities, and drive growth across complex, enterprise-level engagements. By integrating AI and data-enabled analysis into day-to-day workflows, you’ll improve prioritization, execution, and business impact while partnering cross-functionally to translate evolving platform and AI capabilities into clear, tangible value for partners and the business.

About the Role

DoorDash is looking for an Enterprise Partnerships Lead to join the New Verticals Business Development team, to sign net new retailers in New Zealand. You will be responsible for selling DoorDash’s full suite of products to retailers across our New Verticals categories, including general merchandise, as well as emerging verticals such as pets, fashion, beauty, hardware, consumer electronics, and more.

You will report to the Director of New Verticals Business Development, ANZ. This role is hybrid with 3 days in-office and 2 days remote / meeting and pitching to prospective partners.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Leverage your experience and network previously dealing with New Zealand’s largest retailers
• Develop the tactical strategy for engaging each retailer in the sales pipeline, including the largest retailers in the country
• Successfully negotiate and close retail partnerships across our suite of products, including Marketplace and White-Label Deliveries
• Model, present and defend P&L implications for various deal structures for prospective partners
• Manage the deal process with senior internal and external stakeholders to get alignment and approval on your proposed partnerships

We’re excited about you because you…

• Have 10+ years of Enterprise business development and sales experience
• Are experienced in negotiating partnerships with C-Suite executives at large and complex organisations, including an ability to lead analysis-driven negotiation processes
• Are analytically minded, have strong excel (or Google Sheet) modeling skills and always use data to ground your decisions and make your case
• Love working directly with clients; you create and maintain impactful long-term relationships with senior executives in major organisations
• Know how to take very ambiguous and evolving challenges or opportunities and turn them into actionable projects with clear goals

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• Experience leveraging data, AI-informed insights, and emerging AI tools to drive strategic decisions, enhance productivity, and improve outcomes in complex business environments.
• Strong ability to interpret AI-generated insights, synthesize them into clear, actionable recommendations and executive-level narratives, and influence stakeholders.
• Baseline fluency in AI concepts, with a willingness to continuously learn and adopt new technologies as AI capabilities become increasingly embedded in workflows, products, and customer interactions.