About the Role
Uber’s Global Commerce teams build and manage world class commerce and financial products that support the hyper growth of mobility and delivery across 70+ countries. Our teams focus every day on bringing magical user experiences through innovative technology, facilitating the movement of billions of dollars between our spenders and earners, while executing a world-class risk program that proactively stops fraud in its tracks.
In this role, you will balance “done” and “perfect”, and possess a blend of analytical capabilities, strategic thinking and emotional intelligence as you help set the vision, mission and define our global commerce strategy. If you love finding truth and insight into tough, unstructured problems and working with senior leaders in the organization to bring those insights into meaningful change, this role is for you.
What You’ll Do:
- Develop and define the vision, mission and global top-down strategy across the payments, financial products, risk and compliance businesses
- Define our team’s value proposition, setting top-down strategic priorities and OKRs
- Provide critical guidance, insights and strategic frameworks to the C-suite and senior leaders
- Work with Strategic finance to optimally allocate resources & investments to help the team scale and assist in cyclical strategic planning cycles to guide operational and tech prioritization.
- Identify operational and structural weaknesses and identify opportunities to develop new processes to keep our local and regional teams as efficient as possible
- Be a SME and thought partner, working closely with cross-functional leaders across product, engineering, operations, marketing and finance, globally, to develop a strong pulse on market trends, competition and emerging strategic opportunities to pursue
- Lead leadership strategic readouts and monthly global business reporting
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree
- 5+ years of experience in consulting / strategy or related roles; high-growth operations, strategy or startup experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Excellent analytical and structured thinker - you connect the dots between data, can understand the big picture and gut check every number you see
- Exceptional storytelling abilities. A strong communicator with an ability to craft a story out of very few as well as billions of data points
- An ability to synthesize information quickly, distill key takeaways, and weave insights into a compelling story that clarifies and inspires
- An ability to influence and lead by building deep relationships across our broad organization, foster a collaborative work environment, and understand problems from diverse perspectives. Humility and empathy are critical to success in this role
- High standards and a bias toward action. You find context and information you need through relationships across the organization, you push for clarity and delivery, and you hold a high bar from your contributions and those of the people you work with
- Grit and perseverance. You’re passionate about a challenge and push yourself to persevere while staying organized and on top of various tasks that come your way
- Know how to access, interpret and package data so our team can deliver outstanding and innovative analysis to better our operations
- Outstanding SQL & Excel / data management skills
For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$152,000 per year - USD$169,000 per year.
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$152,000 per year - USD$169,000 per year.
For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$137,000 per year - USD$152,000 per year.
For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber’s bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.
Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.
Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber’s cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.