Manager, Vehicle Development Strategy - Autonomous

About The Role

The Autonomous Mobility and Delivery (AM&D) team at Uber is seeking to accelerate the arrival of safe, secure autonomous mobility and delivery offerings that complement our existing products and are beneficial for our customers, partners, and communities. We are collaborating across the ecosystem with a diverse set of stakeholders and with leading companies involved in the development and operation of self-driving vehicles and fleets.

We're looking for a Manager, Vehicle Strategy to focus on early-stage vehicle concepts and future fleet models. This role sits within Strategic Initiatives and is centred on exploring, defining, and pressure-testing what the next generation of autonomous vehicles on the Uber platform should look like.

You'll work on problems that don't yet have clear answers, from how vehicles are designed for ridehail use cases, to how autonomy, hardware, and operations come together as a system. The role blends product thinking, concept development, and external engagement, translating broad ideas into concrete directions, experiments, and partnerships.

In this role, you'll work closely with internal teams and external partners to shape future vehicle and fleet concepts, represent Uber's perspective in early discussions, and help turn exploratory work into actionable programs where it makes sense.

What You'll Do

• Concept Definition & Direction: Define and shape early-stage vehicle and fleet concepts, with a focus on the shift toward robotaxification and fleet-first models. Turn broad ideas into clear product and business directions, framing how vehicles, autonomy, and the Uber marketplace come together to deliver a step-change in consumer experience.
• Strategic Thinking & Translation: Lead structured thinking across ambiguous spaces. Work with cross-functional partners to translate concepts into tangible outputs such as concept briefs, early roadmaps, prototype plans, or pilot proposals, with a clear view on user experience, operational viability, and commercial impact.
• Systems Integration: Build a coherent view across hardware, autonomy, fleet operations, and marketplace dynamics. Connect the dots to ensure concepts reflect the realities of fleet-centric systems, including utilisation, maintenance, routing, and lifecycle considerations.
• External Partner Engagement: Engage with external partners from early exploration through to shaping potential collaborations. Represent Uber's perspective on future fleet models, influence vehicle and autonomy design decisions, and identify opportunities to diversify fleet supply across different vehicle types and partners.
• Incubation & Path to Action: Turn promising concepts into actionable paths forward, whether through incubation, pilot programmes, or integration into existing initiatives. Evaluate where new vehicle types or fleet models can unlock differentiated rider experiences or operational advantages, and make clear calls on what to progress and what to stop.
• Consumer Experience Focus: Shape how next-generation autonomous vehicles will be experienced by riders. Consider the full journey, from vehicle design and in-vehicle experience through to dispatch, pickup, and ride dynamics in a fleet-driven world.
• Executive Communication: Communicate clearly with senior stakeholders, bringing structure to ambiguity and highlighting key decisions, risks, and open questions without over-indexing on reporting.
• Autonomy & Momentum: Operate with a high degree of autonomy, creating clarity where none exists and driving work forward without waiting for perfect information.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• 6 years working on early-stage products, concepts, or zero-to-one initiatives in mobility, robotics, or adjacent spaces
• Bacheor's Degree
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in concept engineering, advanced product incubation, or future mobility strategy
• Familiarity with vehicle platforms, autonomy stacks, and fleet operations, but not necessarily as a domain specialist
• Experience working with or evaluating autonomy companies (Wayve, Waymo, Aurora, etc.) from a strategic or product lens
• Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous future concepts into concrete product or business directions
• Strong product and design thinking, able to frame problems from user, system, and commercial perspectives at once
• Deep curiosity for how autonomous vehicles, fleet models, and marketplaces will evolve over the next 5 to 10 years
• Ability to synthesise inputs across hardware, autonomy software, operations, and business models into clear strategic bets
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders without formal authority, especially in unstructured problem spaces
• Exposure to business development or partnerships, especially shaping early deals or joint explorations
• Track record of turning exploratory work into funded programs or pilots
  
  

For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$162,000 per year - USD$180,000 per year. For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$162,000 per year - USD$180,000 per year. For Washington, DC-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$162,000 per year - USD$180,000 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. 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., For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$162,000 per year - USD$180,000 per year. For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$162,000 per year - USD$180,000 per year. For Washington, DC-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$162,000 per year - USD$180,000 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. 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.