Sr Strategy & Planning Associate, Pickup Merchant/gtm Lead

Uber Uber · Consumer · New York, NY +2 · Operations

This role is for a Senior Strategy & Planning Associate, Pickup Merchant/GTM Lead at Uber. The primary focus is on operational excellence and program management for Uber's Pickup business, including managing execution plans, improving margin profile through special projects like fraud mitigation and cost reduction, identifying and automating manual processes, owning business review cadences, and standardizing best practices across regions. It requires strong project management, financial literacy, and a process-oriented approach. While the role mentions fraud mitigation, it is framed within operational improvements rather than core AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage the "Growth Bet" execution plan. You will coordinate with regional leads in US&C, EMEA, and APAC to track progress against the 3 phases: Foundations, ISP Setup, and Execution
  2. Lead special projects designed to improve the program's margin profile. This includes workstreams on reducing Unfulfilled Order (UFO) costs, fraud mitigation, and optimizing variable spend
  3. Identify manual processes (e.g., manual merchant outreach, menu updates) and partner with CommOps and Tech to build automated, scalable solutions
  4. Own the global governance cadence, including Weekly Business Reviews (WBRs) and Monthly Business Reviews (MBRs). You will ensure we are tracking against our Gross Bookings and Trip targets
  5. Ensure best practices (playbooks) for audit processes and merchant onboarding are shared and standardized across markets (e.g., taking learnings from the US ISP sprint and applying them to the UK/FR)

Skills

Required

  • program management
  • operations
  • finance
  • complex, global projects with multiple stakeholders and timelines
  • P&L components
  • cost-saving opportunities
  • drive efficiency projects
  • building structure out of ambiguity
  • creating scalable processes
  • Bachelor's degree

Nice to have

  • PMP or similar project management certification
  • Experience working with central and regional teams in a matrixed organization
  • Experience with fraud or risk operations

What the JD emphasized

  • 4+ years of experience
  • Project Management
  • Financial Literacy
  • Process Oriented
  • fraud or risk operations