Individual riders around the world love using Uber’s app for their everyday transportation needs -- the magical, seamless experience is one of the secrets to Uber’s radical growth. Your job is to translate that same product-market fit across the rest of the digital and physical world, giving people access to Uber’s platform from any app, website, service, or physical location. Your products will span integrations from marquee companies like Facebook, Microsoft, and Google to the next unicorn emerging from the developer ecosystem.
An ideal candidate has at least 10 years experience managing multiple product teams simultaneously, both a strong technical and business background, and experience in both APIs and strategic partnerships, with a special proven talent for creating magical customer experiences. The ideal candidate also possess entrepreneurial tenacity and thrives in in fast-moving, high-ambiguity environments. You drive teams to hit goals, you have killer judgment and A+ collaboration, communication and problem-solving skills.
To be effective in this role, you’ll need to:
Build deep insight and empathy for how developers and companies large and small around the world can use Uber’s platform to create moving experiences for their users, and understand how to build a product suite & marketing roadmap to gain widespread and rapid adoption globally. Ability to define verticals of partnership types, refine a solution, playbook it, then run it globally.
Dig deep on ecosystem value propositions and devise and deploy a strategy that motivates and rewards Uber’s partners for creating magical user experiences with Uber; a vibrant ecosystem usually emerges when the partner, user, and Uber all benefit from an integration
Understand the strategic landscape of competitive opportunities -- and challenges -- Uber faces globally and define how Uber can use our partnerships to secure the best outcome for partners, users, and Uber.
Be obsessed with partnering with our Business Development team to understand what products and features are needed to fuel rapid growth globally.
Recruit, manage, coach and lead a team of highly technical product managers. Ensure strong team dynamics, team + individual team member performance, growth and #superpumpedness
Manage your teams to performance goals
See around corners, partnering with Uber’s most senior executive leaders to identify “what’s next” and steer your team toward uncovering new opportunity
Here are the kinds of skills we're looking for:
A computer science undergraduate degree or equivalent. Technical understanding must go from the highest abstractions down to the metal.
Stellar design instincts and product taste. Experience building magical, delightful consumer-facing apps, products, and integrations, as well as specific expertise in APIs. Most partnerships grab a headline and then fade away; the ones you build at Uber must last and thrive.
Smooth sales and partnership sensibilities. Business partners are our lifeblood, and you will interact with strategic partners regularly to gain information and help land key deals.
10+ years experience leading and managing large, cross-functional product teams that delivered solutions related to APIs and/or 3rd party integrations
Business unit leadership experience, driving your teams to hit financial goals
A high bar across the board - from your own contributions to the people you work with to the products you work on.
A “driver” personality - biased toward action, great collaborator and master disambiguator/simplifier - constantly pushing toward clarity and delivery.
Data-driven mindset; ability to leverage data to make decisions without getting stuck in analysis paralysis.
True user-centricity and deep empathy for a wide variety of stakeholders.
True passion for Uber’s mission and the company’s hybrid technology / operations nature.
Perks
Perks:
Employees are showered with Uber credits each month.
The rare opportunity to change the world such that everyone around you is using the product you built. We’re not just another social web app, we’re moving real people and assets and reinventing transportation and logistics globally.
Sharp, motivated co-workers in a fun office environment.
Benefits (U.S.):
401(k) plan, gym reimbursement, nine paid company holidays.
Full medical/dental/vision package to fit your needs.
Unlimited vacation policy; work hard and take time when you need it.
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