Materials Program Manager, DoorDash Air

About the Team DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash. We explore robotics, drones, and automation to transform last mile logistics in the long term. If you want to work on commercializing autonomy, drones, and robotics in a service used by millions of people, then we want to talk to you! About the Role We’re hiring a Materials Program Manager to support aircraft builds as DoorDash Air scales to higher-volume production. This role will own clear-to-build planning, including demand planning, shortage management, inventory allocation, purchasing coordination, and build readiness. You will help define the processes and operating cadence that allow the team to move from reactive material tracking to a scalable production supply chain. You will report into the Supply Chain Lead on our DoorDash Air Supply Chain team. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Lead material readiness for aircraft builds by translating BOMs, build schedules, inventory, supplier lead times, and open orders into a clear build readiness plan. Own shortage management and clear-to-build status across prototype, validation, and production builds, including risk tracking and escalation. Partner with procurement, engineering, manufacturing, and finance to align material availability with program timing and budget needs. Build scalable processes for inventory accuracy, allocation, receiving, labeling, kitting, and build readiness as the program grows. Identify long-lead and high-risk materials early, recommend mitigation plans, and help reduce last-minute expediting and build delays. We’re excited about you because… You have 5+ years of experience in materials planning, supply planning, production planning, procurement operations, inventory control, or equivalent experience. You have experience owning material readiness or clear-to-build planning for hardware, manufacturing, robotics, drones, or equivalent programs. You are comfortable working with complex bills of materials, supplier lead times, purchase orders, inventory, demand forecasts, and build schedules. You can operate with ambiguity, build structure where processes are still developing, and communicate risks clearly to cross-functional partners. You are comfortable working hands-on with physical inventory and systems, including receiving, labeling, organizing, tracking, and preparing materials for builds. Compensation The successful candidate’s starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee’s work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future. In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information. 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. $105,400 — $155,000 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. 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