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Uber Lead Product Manager, Safety Media in San Francisco, California
About the Role
Uber is a technology company that is changing the way the world moves people, food, and things. Whether it's heading home from work, getting a meal delivered from a favorite restaurant, or a way to earn extra income, Uber is becoming part of the fabric of daily life.
As a Lead Product Manager for its Safety Media Product Team, you will be at the center of driving our mission to leverage recording to reduce safety incidents and bring additional peace of mind to every ride and delivery!
We are seeking an outstanding leader with strong technical and analytical depth who can manage a sophisticated set of collaborators, develop and be responsible for strategy across multiple product areas, think deeply about problems, come up with compelling data driven solutions that scale, align our executive leadership team to their vision and inspire a dedicated product team to build against a customer-centric roadmap. The role requires principled thinking, technical depth, a refusal to settle, a focus on innovation, resilience, and a mentality that always puts customers first!
What the Candidate Will Do:
As the Lead Product Manager for the Safety Media Product Team, you will partner with leads from Engineering, Data Science, Operations, Design, and Support to establish a bold vision and execute on it in a way that balances speed, depth of thought, engineering considerations and quality.
You will obsess over user experience and business impact, as well as feel comfortable diving deep into technical and analytical challenges yourself. You will need to be an inspirational leader and not just a manager of a team and cross-functional stakeholders. Internalize and deeply understand Uber's mission and strategies, as well as the mission and objectives of your team. Formulate a long and short-term product strategy to develop breakthrough products and solutions based on deep customer insights, and business needs.
Galvanize technical and business stakeholders across the company to align to your vision. Lead other leaders without authority. Understand the differences in priorities across the business and across different local regions is essential. You will work with our regional teams to understand issues on the ground and make those solutions a part of your roadmap.
Partner with User Experience Research, Operations, and Support teams to seek insights on user problems and evangelize those problems, along with your proposed solutions, across Uber. Work with our regional teams to understand issues on the ground and make those solutions a part of their roadmap.
Develop positive partnerships and make strategic trade-offs advised by data. Collaborate and partner with engineering/business to develop a clear roadmap and drive execution across the organization. Work with researchers to conduct a program of quantitative and qualitative insight gathering and evaluation. Anticipate and remove obstacles that slow down or prevent us from delivering on product objectives.
Effectively present and communicate product strategy, implementation, and plans to various communities ranging from your immediate team to business audiences, external partners, and executive leadership.
Build and cultivate a strong team culture with a focus on execution and results. Be a highly effective collaborator and a magnet that cross-functional partners seek out for input and look forward to working with.
Basic Qualifications:
Product Experience: Minimum 5+ years of product management experience delivering highly successful and innovative products with your fingerprints all over them -- and you're deeply proud of what you've accomplished.
Technically proficient - You have collaborated with engineers in developing sophisticated technical architecture as part of the products you have built. You understand the right questions to pose and the right proposals to bring forward in a highly technical context, in order to optimize the team's direction to maximize utility to the user and value to the business.
Strategic - You have crafted an inspiring and coherent product vision, multi-year strategy, and quarterly roadmap that your team and the business emphatically accepted and rallied behind.
Product Sense - Stellar design instincts, sharp analytical skills, and thoughtful product decisions. A high bar across the board - from your own contributions to the people you work with to the products you work on. You own what you build.
Experience leading product managers and product management teams.
Leadership Experience: Prior experience setting and delivering on a strategy you crafted, where you were accountable for the outcomes.
A Driver" mentality. You are biased toward action, a great collaborator, a master disambiguate/simplifier, and constantly pushing toward clarity and delivery.
Grittiness. You never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and solve something hands-on.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working within a highly matrixed organization including collaborators across Product, Eng, Business Ops, Public Policy, and more.
Experience running sophisticated experiments to assess the efficiency of releases.
Experience identifying risk trends and finding efficient ways to address them.
Experience working directly on Video, Recording, or Media-focused products and platforms within an engineering and product management context.
For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$216,000 per year - USD$240,000 per year. For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$216,000 per year - USD$240,000 per year. For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$216,000 per year - USD$240,000 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- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdb_Y9Bv8-lWDMbpidF2GKXsxzNh11wUUVS7fM1znOfEJsVeA/viewform