About the Role
The Uber Technical Program Management (TPM) team plays a critical role in structuring and executing impactful org-wide initiatives to increase the effectiveness of our product and engineering organizations.
The Earner team builds the core platform that allows millions of earners around the world to make their living on Uber, and in turn powers all of Uber's consumer services.
As a TPM on the Earner team, you will help ensure that the Earner team's engineering work will serve other parts of the Uber organization in years to come. Teams throughout Uber integrate with the Earner platform to offer services, share data, and improve the user experience for both Uber Drivers and Uber Couriers. This role will be central in setting the path for future integration capabilities, facilitating current work, and maintaining functionality.
TPMs move fluidly from the big picture to details so that the team can deliver complex and strategic cross-functional projects, often with tight deadlines. You are a bridge and a connector for the company, thrive in a dynamic work environment, and are able to juggle and prioritize multiple projects with ease. You are intuitive, focused, driven, organized, insightful and productive. You break through communication issues and effectively develop relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the organization. You build trust across the organization. You are not afraid to be direct, but you strive to act with empathy and integrity.
What the Candidate Will Do
• Work closely with engineering/product leads to conceptualize strategic initiatives and solutions and develop those into detailed program / project plans.• Project manage technical, complex, large scale, cross-team, cross-functional initiatives from planning to execution. • Organize/align multiple engineering and cross-functional teams for delivery and drive execution and results proactively.• Set accountability by tracking progress, resolving dependencies, identifying issues, evaluating risks, and communicating status to upper management and project stakeholders.• Understand technical implementation at the architecture level and propose technical alternatives when necessary. Ask questions that clarify priorities and push the team to be highly effective. Develop broad domain and technical knowledge.• Accelerate the execution velocity of large product initiatives. Continuously improve and scale the organization. Implement continuous improvements to the engineering organization and the program management process.
Basic Qualifications
• Proven experience of 4+ years as a TPM or Engineering Manager in a software, SaaS, or systems development environment with an overall experience of 8+ years.• Strong technical experience in platform development at scale.• Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, challenges, and risks. Engineers enjoy working closely with you.• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and exceptional emotional intelligence.• Proven strong cross-team and cross-org stakeholder management. Ability to influence, motivate, and align people across a broad variety of job functions through your relationships such as engineering, product, design, data science, operations, etc.• Strong organizational skills to juggle many tasks without losing sight of the highest priority items.• Analytical and truth seeking. Ability to understand complex concepts and make reasoned decisions objectively.• Data driven: Experience determining effective program KPI's and using them to measure program success and issues. Strong technical, analytical, and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to backup assumptions, recommendations, and drive decisions.• Ability to write basic to intermediate SQL queries to find the data needed for a given problem, or analyze a given situation.• Be good at facilitating discussions. You get the right people in the room, let conversations run their course while they are productive, move them toward consensus when possible, and make hard decisions or escalate, as required.• Experienced in project management. Familiar with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies and able to apply them where best suited.
Preferred Qualifications
• Computer Science degree, or related field• Worked at a high paced, fast growing, creative tech company• Experience working at a company with a global footprint• Experience working at a company that sits at the intersection of bits (digital world) and atoms (physical world)
At Uber, we ignite opportunity by setting the world in motion. We take on big problems to help drivers, riders, delivery partners, and eaters get moving in more than 10,000 cities around the world.
We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let's move the world forward, together.
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