Senior Strategy & Planning Associate

Uber Uber · Consumer · New York, NY +1 · Operations

Senior Strategy & Planning Associate role focused on strengthening Uber's Delivery marketplace by identifying and executing data-driven strategies. This role involves partnering with various teams to improve merchant and courier operations, user experience, and defect prevention, ultimately driving systemic improvements across the global marketplace.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead special projects to solve emerging global challenges and opportunities, owning everything from problem structuring and data analysis to strategy development, stakeholder alignment, and cross-functional implementation
  2. Lead and perform in-depth analysis to identify root causes of key marketplace challenges (e.g., merchant-driven defects, courier engagement issues, or user experience friction)
  3. Partner with Regional Operations leaders to understand local nuances and scale globally-consistent best practices
  4. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and CommOps to design and implement systematic solutions, new features, and process improvements to drive a more reliable end-to-end experience
  5. Build frameworks, models, and dashboards to monitor pillar-specific performance, ensuring transparency and accountability across global and regional teams
  6. Own cross-functional governance for your domain, ensuring priorities are resourced, tracked, and embedded into Uber Delivery’s long-term product and marketplace roadmap

Skills

Required

  • SQL
  • strategy
  • operations
  • consulting
  • analytics
  • marketplace businesses
  • data analysis
  • problem structuring
  • stakeholder alignment
  • cross-functional implementation
  • root cause analysis
  • framework development
  • model building
  • dashboard creation
  • project management
  • global operations

Nice to have

  • Python
  • AI tools (Cursor, Claude Cowork)

What the JD emphasized

  • 4+ years of experience in strategy, operations, consulting, analytics, or a related field with a focus on Marketplace businesses
  • Proficiency in SQL and experience using data to identify opportunities, quantify impact, and guide decision-making
  • Proven track record of leading complex, cross-functional initiatives with measurable business impact in a global technology company