Manager - Program Management, Tech.
Uber
**About the Role**
This role will manage a small but very high impact team of program managers who play a pivotal role in driving the efficiency and effectiveness of ongoing engineering processes. This team focuses on continuous improvement, innovation, and streamlining complex cross-organizational interactions. This person will work to enhance organizational efficiency, manage critical processes, and ensure smooth operations across multiple engineering organizations. We are looking for someone who is an owner, organized, and excited about making large organizations and functions efficient and effective in execution.
We’re also looking for an individual who can bring clarity to complexity, operational magic to ambiguity, and energy to every interaction, and being able to instill the same in your team and lead by example. You and your team will be the connective tissue between engineering, product, and cross-functional stakeholders—driving alignment, scaling excellence, and unlocking velocity.
This isn’t just about managing a team. It’s about creating the systems and rituals that keep engineering running like a well-oiled machine. It’s about seeing around corners, solving for scale, and making great teams even better.
If you're highly organized, deeply curious, and excited to build impact from the inside out, we want to hear from you.
**What the Candidate Will Do:**
- Lead a team of experts that own engineering efficiency and enablement.
- Build standardized Engineering excellence processes, including: Key Engineering health, Reliability initiatives, Launch gating and approvals, Critical projects leadership reviews and Support planning processes.
- Own the operational cadence of the business via their team: facilitating leadership meetings, all hands, and strategic planning sessions
- Be a thought leader in improving execution velocity and efficiency including: developing a list of critical challenges that need to be resolved and assembling the right data and most relevant metrics and information to analyze and enable nimble decision-makings.
- Streamline complex areas of continuous cross-organizational interactions.
- Build consistency and predictability across multiple engineering organizations.
**Basic Qualifications:**
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in program management or a similar role.
- Proven project management skills, including planning, scheduling, and budgeting.
- Excellent communication in English and interpersonal skills.
- Experience with process management and improvement methodologies.
- Experience managing teams
**Preferred Qualifications:**
- Degree in Engineering or Business Administration.
- Experience in the relevant engineering industry or domain.
- Experience leading process improvement initiatives.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Technical background and understanding of engineering processes.
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$185,000 per year - USD$205,500 per year.
For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$185,000 per year - USD$205,500 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. 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](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](https://forms.gle/aDWTk9k6xtMU25Y5A).
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.
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