Staff Technical Program Manager

Uber Uber · Consumer · Bangalore, India · Engineering

This role is for a Staff Technical Program Manager at Uber, focusing on the Selection & Fulfillment organization. The primary responsibility is to structure and drive high-impact, cross-organizational initiatives that improve Uber's end-to-end delivery marketplace. This involves developing program strategy, engaging teams, becoming a subject matter expert in merchant onboarding and catalog data, elevating technical implementation, mitigating risks, and owning communication with leadership. While experience with LLMs is a preferred qualification, the core of the role is program management within a large-scale marketplace, not direct AI/ML development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop overall program strategy, defining the objectives, KPIs and milestones against which teams will execute and measure success.
  2. Engage and energize teams to deliver efficiently on program goals. Tactically, partner with tech and business leads to discover and drive opportunities for improvement that come from data analysis, merchant insights, and new process / product design.
  3. Be the subject matter expert. Develop broad domain and technical expertise, understanding the ins and outs of merchant onboarding flows, how new merchant and catalog catalog data is ingested and interacts with Uber platform features. Build documentation that distills and scales this expertise to internal and external stakeholders.
  4. Elevate technical implementation at the architecture level, proposing technical design alternatives when necessary. Ask questions that clarify priorities and help engineering balance design quality with velocity.
  5. Help reduce exposure to classic failure models across teams, processes and systems (e.g., requirements not sufficiently understood or documented, ineffective cross-team collaboration, long-term impact(s) from third-party solutions, insufficient stakeholder review, etc).

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years experience as a TPM, PgM or PM in a tech environment
  • Strong technical aptitude
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong bias for action
  • Ability to lead through influence
  • SQL Proficient

Nice to have

  • Experience with LLMs
  • Experience working with product or merchant catalogs in an e-commerce or retail environment
  • Built standards and frameworks adopted by large engineering organizations

What the JD emphasized

  • proven track record driving successful programs / products with cross-org accountability and impact
  • Strong technical aptitude
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong bias for action
  • Ability to lead through influence
  • SQL Proficient