Senior Associate, Operations Safety
- Location
- Fremont, CA; Sunnyvale, CA; Mesa, AZ; Phoenix, AZ
- Salary range
- USD $93,800 – $138,000 base
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Senior / Staff IC
- Job family
- T&S Operations
- Posted
- Yesterday
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P3, Senior. The typical base salary for that level in Scaled Ops & Moderation is $130k to $180k. Key skills at this level: forecasts volume and staffs against it with real error bars, owns service levels and can explain a miss without blaming the queue, and governs a vendor relationship on quality, not only on cost per action.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the title reads as P3 · asks for 4+ years · posts $94k to $138k base.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from DoorDash's posting.
Operations safety work for DoorDash Labs, the robotics and automation team building autonomous last-mile delivery products. The role runs day-to-day safety operations on the Labs programs, covering incident response, SOPs, safety analytics and audits across remote and on-site functions. It sits on the Operations Safety team, which works to build safety into development and deployment of the autonomous products.
What you'd do
- Triage safety incidents and help resolve them, documenting findings
- Contribute to root cause analysis and follow through on corrective actions
- Draft, update and maintain SOPs and flag compliance gaps to the team
- Partner with engineering, product, legal and field operations on safety for launches and scale
- Create training materials and job aids for operators and field teams
What it asks for
- 4+ years in operations, safety or a related field
- Strong written and verbal communication for explaining risk data to cross-functional partners
- Strong analytical skills and comfort with ambiguity and shifting priorities
- Autonomy, robotics, aerospace or defense experience (preferred)
- Familiarity with SMS, ISO 45001 or equivalent frameworks (preferred)
Worth knowing
- On-call rotation with responses on nights and weekends
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