Operations Associate

Uber Uber · Consumer · Buenos Aires, Argentina · Operations

This role focuses on managing marketplace performance, pricing, and operational efficiency within a city, aiming to achieve plan commitments and ensure service quality for riders and drivers. It involves cross-functional alignment, analytical guidance, and driving high-impact projects.

What you'd actually do

  1. Steer Marketplace Performance: Own key pricing, supply, and demand levers to ensure cities hit their Plan commitments while maintaining strong service quality for both riders and drivers.
  2. Drive High-Impact Projects: Lead initiatives that improve marketplace health, optimize economics, or unlock operational efficiencies taking work from analysis to execution with clear accountability.
  3. Enable Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner closely with Operations, CommOps, Safety, Policy, and other teams to coordinate city-level actions, resolve trade-offs, and ensure cohesive execution across the business.
  4. Provide Analytical & Strategic Guidance: Deliver insights, recommendations, and structured problem-solving to help leadership prioritize decisions that strengthen profitability and marketplace reliability.
  5. Support Knowledge Sharing: Contribute expertise on marketplace dynamics, P&L management, and pricing frameworks, helping raise the bar for peers and developing junior team members through thought partnership.

Skills

Required

  • Marketplace & Financial Judgment
  • Bias for Execution
  • Influence Without Authority
  • Operational Team Mindset
  • English proficiency
  • Data Analytics
  • spreadsheets

Nice to have

  • Coding (SQL mainly)
  • Experience managing P&Ls
  • knowledge of marketplaces (demand & supply)
  • Stakeholder management

What the JD emphasized

  • marketplace health
  • optimize economics
  • operational efficiencies
  • marketplace reliability
  • marketplace dynamics
  • P&L management
  • pricing frameworks
  • Data Analytics with spreadsheets as a MUST