Strategic Programs Lead, Bizops Emea

Uber Uber · Consumer · Amsterdam, Netherlands · Operations

This role is for a Strategic Programs Lead within Uber's EMEA Mobility BizOps team. The primary focus is on architecting, scaling, and executing cross-functional priorities, including AI transformation and automation initiatives. The role involves bridging strategy and technical execution, driving adoption of new processes and tools, and creating leverage for the BizOps team. While the role touches on AI transformation and automation, it is not a hands-on AI/ML development role but rather a program management and strategic execution function within a business operations context.

What you'd actually do

  1. Clean up the core. Deep dive into BizOps workflows to identify technical friction, operational debt, and opportunities to simplify how the team works. You will use strong business judgment to determine what should be automated, standardized, or redesigned to unlock capacity for higher-impact work.
  2. Orchestrate Big Bet delivery. Own the end-to-end roadmap for large-scale initiatives such as AI transformation, automation, and other strategic programs. You will partner with functional SMEs, Strategy, Data Science, and Operations teams to define sequencing, manage trade-offs, and move complex programs from strategy into execution.
  3. Drive adoption, behavior change, and last-mile GTM. Partner with BizOps leads to ensure that new tools, dashboards, processes, and operating models are adopted across EMEA. Whether it is an AI rollout, a new incentive dashboard, or an automation tool, you will support the GTM motion that turns great ideas into embedded ways of working.
  4. Bridge strategy and technical execution. Act as a key interface between business needs and technical teams. You will help translate operational problems into clear technical requirements, pressure-test feasibility, and ensure that solutions are designed for scale across a complex region.
  5. Scale and standardize what works. Prevent fragmentation by ensuring that solutions built for one market, pod, or use case can be reused across EMEA where relevant. You will build the connective tissue that helps BizOps operate more consistently, efficiently, and as one regional system.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Economics, or a related field.
  • 8+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, Strategy, Business Operations, Consulting, or a related field, ideally in a high-growth technology environment.
  • Demonstrated experience managing complex, cross-functional initiatives with high levels of autonomy and executive visibility.
  • Proven ability to turn ambiguous business problems into structured plans, clear roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
  • Experience working with technical, analytical, and operational stakeholders across multiple teams or markets.

Nice to have

  • Generalist problem-solving toolkit: Proven ability to break down complex operational problems and turn them into clear, executive-ready narratives and action plans.
  • Technical fluency: You do not need to be an engineer, but you understand how technical systems are built. You can pressure-test feasibility, ask sharp questions, and ensure solutions are scalable across a complex region.
  • Change management expertise: Experience driving adoption of new tools, processes, or operating models in an operations-heavy environment, such as logistics, marketplaces, mobility, delivery, or global operations.
  • Truth-seeking mindset: A low-ego, objective approach to evaluating what is and is not working. You are comfortable surfacing hard truths while staying practical and optimistic about the path forward.
  • Influence and high EQ: Ability to act as a high-trust peer to senior leaders and influence stakeholders without direct authority.
  • AI and automation experience: Familiarity with LLMs, prompt engineering, automation, or digital transformation initiatives that

What the JD emphasized

  • AI transformation
  • automation
  • AI transformation
  • automation
  • AI transformation
  • automation
  • AI and automation experience