Merchant Account Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL (NOW HIRING)

About the Team
You'll be joining a small, high-leverage Account Management team inside DoorDash's Commerce Platform organization. We work directly with strategic merchant partners - operators running multi-location businesses across the US - and we're the team responsible for making them successful. The work is high-touch, data-driven, and deeply cross-functional. We sit at the intersection of operations, product, sales, and engineering, and we're equally accountable for revenue outcomes, product feedback, and customer health.
About the Role
This is a generalist account management role for someone who wants to operate as more than a relationship manager. You'll own a portfolio of strategic merchants, run their cadence end-to-end, build the strategic playbook that grows their business with us, and represent their voice inside DoorDash. You'll be on calls with founders one hour, pulling data to back up a recommendation the next, and writing a product brief the hour after. The merchant base is sophisticated and the bar is high - we're hiring for someone who can show up and partner with multi-location operators on day one.
You're excited about this opportunity because you will...

• Own a portfolio of strategic merchant accounts. Run weekly and biweekly cadences. Build trust quickly. Become the operator your merchants pick up the phone for.
• Drive measurable revenue growth for your portfolio through specific, contextualized recommendations - promotions, marketing campaigns, channel optimization, expansion strategy.
• Defend account health through proactive, data-driven monitoring. Spot risk early. Act on it.
• Translate merchant voice into product and engineering work. Capture verbatim feedback. Synthesize patterns. Write briefs that ship.
• Partner cross-functionally with Sales, S&O, Launch, Support, Engineering, and Product. Be the connective tissue.
• Use and improve a heavily AI-augmented operational toolkit. We move quickly because we automate aggressively.
• Build process where there isn't any. Our function is still being shaped - the right hire will shape it with us.

We're excited about you because...

• You have 3-5+ years of experience in strategic account management, customer success, or related customer-facing roles at a B2B company. You've owned a book of merchants who depend on your work.
• Restaurant or hospitality background (either as an operator or restaurant tech).
• Demonstrated comfort with data - spreadsheets at scale, dashboards, basic SQL, and a strong instinct for spotting when a number doesn't make sense.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication. You can hold a strategic conversation with a founder, write an email that respects their time, and brief a senior internal stakeholder without padding.
• High agency. You take ownership of outcomes, not activities. You operate without a playbook when needed. You make decisions and recover from mistakes.
• Industry empathy. You've worked closely with merchant operators and you understand the stakes of running a real business with real margins.
• Curiosity and fluency with AI tools. You've used modern AI assistants at a working level and you're excited to operate in a heavily AI-augmented environment.
• Comfort in ambiguity. The team and product are evolving fast - that's a feature for you, not a bug.

Compensation
Actual compensation within the pay range listed below will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior relevant experience, and specific work location. Base salary is localized according to employee work location.
DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That's why we offer a 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.
See below for paid time off details:

• For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
• For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week).

The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.
$102,000-$150,000 USD
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. 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.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
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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