About the Role
Global Intelligence Platform is responsible for delivering accurate and timely market intelligence, insights, and strategy to ensure Uber remains the rideshare and delivery platform of choice in key markets. As a Senior Technical Program Manager (Sr. TPM) on the Global Intelligence team, the role focuses on driving data quality and content improvements in partnership with strategic external partners, modernizing partner infrastructure into a scalable and efficient data-sharing operating model, and providing cross-platform leadership across Uber and partner engineering teams through clear communication and structured knowledge sharing. This includes building and maintaining a comprehensive repository of data models, onboarding insights, and vendor-specific nuances.
The Sr. TPM also owns the full lifecycle of requirements from the Science team through partner delivery, developing a deep understanding of scoring mechanics, signal integrity, and redundancy and backup strategies across mega-regions to ensure reliability and performance.
Global Intelligence Platform is responsible for providing accurate and timely market intelligence, insights, and strategy to ensure that Uber is the rideshare and delivery platform of choice in key markets.
What the Candidate Will Do:
- Drive High-Impact, Cross-Functional Programs: Lead complex, large-scale initiatives that cut across teams, orgs, and regions. Define success upfront, align stakeholders, and relentlessly push programs from strategy through execution.
- Accelerate Team Velocity: Energize and unblock teams to deliver against ambitious timelines. Spot risks early, break through dependencies, and clear obstacles so progress never stalls.
- Partner Deeply with Product, Engineering, and Policy Teams: Work side by side with technical leaders to scope work, define milestones, and optimize resources. Push for clarity on priorities and trade-offs to ensure we deliver what matters most.
- Bring Technical Depth to Decision-Making: Understand architecture-level details and challenge assumptions. Ask the hard questions, propose pragmatic alternatives, and ensure we’re making data-driven choices that scale globally.
- Bridge Business and Customer Impact: Keep the end user front and center while balancing technical realities. Use insights and data to influence decisions, improve efficiency, and deliver products that make Uber stronger.
- Own Planning at Scale: Lead strategic planning cycles that set the foundation for growth. Build clear roadmaps, measurable outcomes, and resourcing plans that align execution with company priorities.
- Communicate with Transparency and Influence: Surface progress, risks, and trade-offs to executives and collaborators with crisp, actionable updates. Drive alignment by giving context and recommending solutions, not just reporting status.
- Continuously Raise the Bar: Identify and implement improvements that make the org faster, smarter, and more effective. Share frameworks, tools, and playbooks that elevate program execution across Uber.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and exceptional emotional intelligence.
- Demonstrated ability as a TPM or Engineering Manager in a software, SaaS, or systems development environment
- Proven strong cross-team and cross-org stakeholder management.
- Analytical and truth-seeking. Ability to understand complex concepts and make reasoned decisions objectively.
- Metrics-driven: Experience in resolving effective program critical metrics and using them to measure program success and issues.
- Strong organizational skills to juggle many tasks without losing sight of the highest priority items.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Hands-on experience in the Data and Market Intelligence space or similar.
- Excellent in identifying process gaps, measuring progress, and balancing engineering and product efficiency.
- Strong software development and distributed systems experience.
- Worked at a high-paced, fast-growing, creative tech startup.
- Developer experience, including writing, testing and deploying code.
For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$180,000 per year - USD$200,000 per year.
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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