What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager - Program Management, Tech. position at 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
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.
- 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
- 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 .
Salary : $185,000 - $205,500