Sr Engineering Manager

About the Role

As Sr Engineering Manager for the Eater Growth team, you will be responsible for shaping the vision to impact Uber Eats most important business metrics (acquisition, retention and growth). Your mission will be to ensure that consumers always feel understood, with the app effortlessly anticipating their needs-whether they're looking for a quick lunch, planning a group dinner, or discovering new cuisines they didn't even know they'd love.

The Eater Growth team is looking for a strong engineering leader to execute on the team's ambitious and fast-paced product strategy. This is a very important and visible role with a potential for significant impact on the fast growing Eats business. The Senior Engineering Manager will lead an area focused on optimizing Eater experience in close collaboration with product and data science teams within and outside the organization, including Marketplace, Courier and Pricing teams. This role will oversee both product experience and optimization problem areas. For an engineering leader with strong execution muscle, technical depth and business/product sense, this will be an excellent opportunity to learn, succeed and grow at Uber.

What the Candidate Will Do:

• Lead experimentation and learning to find high-potential product features and 0 to 1 big bets.
• Work with stakeholders and multi-functional teams to lead planning and execution through a full product cycle
• Partner with engineering teams, help see opportunities, gather requirements, and help shape the technology roadmap and vision for the team
• Lean on technical experience to facilitate technical decision making and raise the bar on the team's engineering craft
• Hire high-quality engineering talent, lead and develop your team
• Develop an operational model to achieve operational excellence for engineering and product metrics

Basic Qualifications:

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, with 7+ years as an engineering manager and people leader
• Experience executing against high-stakes business goals and extensive engineering priorities.
• Experience partnering across functions and organizational boundaries to effectively advocate for team, business, and company priorities.
• Experience with analytical or optimization problem spaces and strong collaboration with data science and product functions.
• A strong ability to shepherd the design and implementation of robust, high-scale systems and to challenge engineers to develop extensible and reusable solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A strong business sense and ability to challenge and partner with product managers and business stakeholders.
• A track record of delivering results in fast-paced and highly ambiguous environments.
• Excellent communication and analytical ability to understand the business value of engineering decisions and articulate a narrative about their importance.
• Experience in growth, pricing, e-commerce, fullfillment or complex backend systems.

For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$267,000 per year - USD$297,000 per year.

You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits.

Uber's mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuels progress. What moves us, moves the world - let's move it forward, together.

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity 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.