About the Role
Uber is seeking a proactive and strategic Chief of Staff to serve as a partner to our APAC Regional General Manager (RGM) for Mobility. We're looking for a collaborative lead who thrives in a dynamic environment and is committed to driving impactful change.
The candidate would work closely with the APAC Regional General Manager, the Leadership team across Country GMs, and cross-functional leaders on key priorities and strategic projects.
The Chief of Staff’s mission is to make time, information, and decision-making more effective. You will be pivotal in optimizing operational efficiency, facilitating communications, mobilizing teams, and driving key initiatives forward.
Your Impact in Role
- Strategic Planning and Execution: Collaborate with RGM and other leaders to develop and implement strategic initiatives that align with the company's goals and objectives. Monitor progress, manage business reviews, track key performance indicators, and drive necessary adjustments. Act as a trusted advisor to the RGM, offering insights and recommendations on various business matters.
- Operational Excellence: Identify opportunities to optimize operational efficiency and effectiveness. Streamline processes, optimize workflows, and lead cross-functional projects to achieve operational excellence.
- Project Management: Lead and manage special projects assigned, collaborating with various teams to achieve project goals within defined timelines. Monitor project progress, identify potential roadblocks, and implement solutions to keep projects on track. Anticipate and mitigate project risks, escalating issues as necessary to ensure successful outcomes.
- Stakeholder Management: Act as a liaison between the RGM and internal/external stakeholders, fostering positive relationships. Work with leadership toward clear, efficient, and accountable decision-making.
- Communication Management: Develop and execute effective communication strategies, ensuring consistent and transparent messaging across the region. Prepare communication materials, presentations, and reports. Ensure timely dissemination of information and alignment of messaging across the region.
- Decision Support: Provide data-driven insights, analysis, and recommendations to assist the RGM in making informed decisions. Conduct research, prepare presentations, and contribute to strategic discussions. Utilize data-driven approaches to support decision-making and drive continuous improvement.
- Change Management: Drive organizational change initiatives by working closely with leadership and teams. Ensure seamless implementation of changes while minimizing disruptions.
- Team Collaboration: Foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture that embraces the diverse cultural nuances of APAC. Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and cooperation in achieving shared objectives.
What You Will Need
- A wide range of backgrounds will be considered for this role including operations, consulting, strategy, project management, policy & communications, legal, product operations, strategic finance
- You are exceptional at organizational excellence. You design and maintain effective systems and workflows, bring order to complexity, and ensure priorities are structured, tracked, and delivered with rigor.
- You are a disciplined project manager. You plan, prioritize, and drive multiple initiatives forward simultaneously, keeping milestones visible and ensuring commitments are met on time and to the highest standard.
- You are a strategic thinker and executor. You simplify complexity, anticipate challenges, and translate broad objectives into actionable, measurable outcomes.
- You are solution-oriented and analytical. You use data and critical thinking to inform decisions, balance trade-offs, and create clarity where there is ambiguity.
- You are a trusted relationship builder. You influence with credibility, engage stakeholders across levels and functions, and foster alignment to drive results.
- You are an outstanding communicator. You can convey complex ideas clearly and concisely, adapting your style to diverse audiences.
- You are culturally intelligent. You navigate global and local nuances with ease, flexing your approach to different contexts and perspectives.
- You thrive in dynamic environments. You balance shifting priorities without losing focus on long-term goals, maintaining composure under pressure.
- You are deeply collaborative. You create connection, alignment, and shared accountability across teams and levels.
- You are discreet and principled. You exercise judgment and handle sensitive information with the utmost confidentiality.
- You are entrepreneurial by nature. You take ownership from idea through execution, with a strong bias for action and a drive to deliver outcomes.
Uber's mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuelds progress. What moves us, moves the world - let’s move it forward, together.
Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.
*Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@uber.com.