About the Role
We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Project Manager to join Uber’s Core Tech Legal team. The Core Technologies team has a front-row seat for new technology adoption at Uber, including the rapid expansion of AI. This is a unique opportunity to strengthen the team’s legal and operational foundation and influence how we adopt generative AI to make us more efficient and effective.
The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in legal project management and a strong bias for action, with the ability to independently identify pain points and develop practical solutions to address them.
You’ll provide efficient, best in class legal support at every stage of product development, from ideation to launch and market expansion, while ensuring key stakeholder collaboration along the way.
Roles will be based at Uber’s Washington D.C., New York or San Francisco, CA office.
What you'll do:
- Work with a highly collaborative, growing team to lead and scale project management processes for product legal reviews and commercial work.
- Design, implement, and continuously improve processes, tools, playbooks, and systems that enable efficient legal reviews, streamlined approval workflows, and scalable team operations.
- Serve as a front-line reviewer, working under the supervision of an attorney, to handle the review, drafting, and negotiating of a wide variety of business proposals and commercial agreements.
- Build strong, trust-based relationships with various global legal, policy, and cross-functional teams and act as a key liaison to drive alignment, resolve blockers, and ensure appropriate visibility.
Basic Qualifications
- Minimum of ten (10) years of experience in legal program management or a related field.
Preferred Qualifications
- The ability to juggle multiple projects at a time in an exciting, fast-paced environment, both collaborating as a team to stay in sync and working independently to get the job done.
- Strong interpersonal skills and highly collaborative with both business leaders and cross-functional partners, with a strong ability to build relationships, gain credibility, and partner with others.
- Strong judgment with ability to act autonomously and know when to seek input or escalate.
- Experience negotiating commercial agreements is a bonus!
- Experience using AI/ML tools and methodologies, with demonstrated understanding of related legal, regulatory, and ethical considerations.
- Proven ability to manage complex projects and a track record of building new or improving existing programs or processes.
- Capacity to learn and retain technical and legal information, ask insightful questions, and translate complex details into actionable guidance.
- Self-motivation with a strong affinity for vision setting, strategic problem solving, and driving action.
- Inquisitive, proactive, and able to spot issues and drive them to resolution.
- Demonstrates integrity, accountability, and enthusiasm for Uber’s mission.
For Chicago, IL-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$137,000 per year - USD$152,000 per year.
For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$152,000 per year - USD$169,000 per year.
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$152,000 per year - USD$169,000 per year.
For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits.
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