Culinary Trainer Lead – Dashmart Kitchens

About the Team

DashMart is a new kind of online grocery store owned and operated by DoorDash. Customers order their convenience, grocery and prepared foods in the DoorDash app, and our team members prepare, pick and pack orders in a real, brick-and-mortar store for our Dashers to deliver to our customers with quality and speed. Our customer promise is: Fresh, Local, and Reliable. We’re open early and close late – some sites even run 24/7! Dashmart Kitchens is a team within Dashmart focused on building and operating kitchens to bring fast, affordable restaurant and grocery selection to consumers. 

About the Role

Dashmart Kitchens is looking for a people-focused trainer who excels in a fast-paced, remote environment and is excited to roll up their sleeves and lead from the front. In this role, you’ll be helping us launch our Dashmart Kitchens, focusing on training local operators. You’ll administer training and ongoing quality audits for multiple restaurant concepts – with the support of our Culinary, Kitchen Operations, and Project Management teams. You will report to the Head of Kitchen Operations.

• New Dashmart Kitchens Store Launches in the Field – Work hands-on with our Merchant Partners to administer training & support in the field, ensuring all managers and cooks are properly executing our recipes and following procedures. 
• Ongoing Quality Auditing – Perform ongoing Host partnership visits and audits to ensure Hosts maintain consistent high-quality operations.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you…

• Are passionate about working with people and love to be hands-on training with culinary teams
• Love helping improve operations and contributing ideas to improve our training quality and onboarding experience based on data and an ever-evolving business. 
• Are passionate about partnering with restaurants to help grow their businesses
• Have the ability to perform audits and compile & communicate feedback in an effort to improve culinary and operational quality.
• Love to build processes, playbooks, and can adjust training materials and methods to accommodate onboarding needs.

We’re excited about you because…

• You’re self-motivated, positive, and a team player. You work well with others, but also excel in roles with little oversight – relying on your own drive and self-discipline.
• You’re scrappy. You are willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done whether it’s digging into a new process to determine how best to communicate it to Host Partners or helping troubleshoot a technical issue.
• You have 3+ years of experience cooking and managing in a high-volume kitchen environment including fast-casual, QSR, and from-scratch restaurants
• You have 2+ years of experience in a field training or training development role, ideally with a restaurant group.
• You have a knack for organization and are proficient in Google Docs/Sheets. You are a data-driven decision maker who is comfortable compiling your findings in documentation that can be shared with the broader team.
• You are willing to travel and be on-site in dynamic restaurant environments

Why You’ll Love Working at DoorDash

• We are leaders – Leadership is not limited to our management team. It’s something everyone at DoorDash embraces and embodies
• We are doers – We believe the only way to predict the future is to build it. Creating solutions that will lead our company and our industry is what we do — on every project, every day
• We are learners – We’re not afraid to dig in and uncover the truth, even if it’s scary or inconvenient. Everyone here is continually learning on the job, no matter if we’ve been in a role for one year or one minute
• We are customer-obsessed – Our mission is to grow and empower local economies. We are committed to our customers, merchants, and dashers and believe in connecting people with possibility
• We are all DoorDash – The magic of DoorDash is our people, together making our inspiring goals attainable and driving us to greater heights 
• We offer great compensation packages and comprehensive health benefits

Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis

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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.$51,100—$85,900 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 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.

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.

Statement of Non-Discrimination: In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash. We value a diverse workforce – people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Thank you to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non-discrimination.

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