Growth Strategy Manager, Uber Direct

Uber Uber · Consumer · London, United Kingdom · Sales & Account Management

This role focuses on the growth and performance of Uber Direct's retail and integrations partnerships in the UK. The manager will identify growth opportunities, improve operational performance, and shape scalable strategies. It involves managing strategic relationships, coordinating onboarding, investigating operational issues, and collaborating with various internal teams. The ideal candidate has customer-facing experience, commercial acumen, and strong project management skills, with a preference for familiarity with SaaS, APIs, or the delivery ecosystem.

What you'd actually do

  1. Navigate ambiguity and internal complexity to unlock long-term value for a large portfolio of Uber Direct technology, POS, and middleware integration partners.
  2. Build and grow strategic relationships with key stakeholders, managing pipelines and account milestones with urgency, discipline, and persistent trust-building.
  3. Coordinate complex integration onboarding and launch activities, working cross-functionally with internal technical and implementation teams to unblock API barriers and manage timeline risks.
  4. Investigate messy operational issues and pricing or performance friction points, leveraging data to drive decision-making and resolve tough client objections.
  5. Collaborate across sales, operations, product, and engineering to deliver solutions that scale, translating partner feedback into actionable product roadmap inputs.

Skills

Required

  • customer-facing experience
  • account management
  • partnerships
  • customer success
  • commercial acumen
  • project management
  • timeline tracking
  • data analysis
  • Excel
  • Google Sheets
  • communication skills
  • stakeholder management

Nice to have

  • SaaS
  • APIs
  • POS systems
  • online ordering platforms
  • technical integrations
  • last-mile delivery ecosystem
  • retail ecosystem
  • SQL

What the JD emphasized

  • 3+ years of customer-facing experience
  • strong commercial acumen
  • Proven track record of managing client or partner relationships
  • supporting commercial initiatives
  • working cross-functionally
  • Strong organizational, project management, and timeline tracking skills
  • managing multiple workstreams simultaneously
  • adapt quickly in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment
  • Comfortable using data and insights
  • Excel/Google Sheets proficiency required
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills
  • bridge alignment between technical and non-technical teams
  • Eagerness to learn
  • proactively drive initiatives forward
  • thrive in a rapidly evolving business environment