What are the responsibilities and job description for the Public Policy Manager, Safety position at Uber?
About The Role
Uber invests in safety as a core part of its platform and products. As Public Policy Manager for Safety, this role helps ensure those investments translate into strong policy outcomes, effective external engagement, and clear public narratives.
You will work across Product, Operations, Legal, and Communications to understand how safety features and programs operate in practice, and help shape how they are developed, launched, and understood externally. You will support regulatory strategy, advise on product and program decisions, and help position Uber as a leader in safety and trust.
This role is a good fit for someone with strong policy judgment, business awareness, and experience working across teams to solve complex, cross-cutting issues.
What You'll Do
Uber invests in safety as a core part of its platform and products. As Public Policy Manager for Safety, this role helps ensure those investments translate into strong policy outcomes, effective external engagement, and clear public narratives.
You will work across Product, Operations, Legal, and Communications to understand how safety features and programs operate in practice, and help shape how they are developed, launched, and understood externally. You will support regulatory strategy, advise on product and program decisions, and help position Uber as a leader in safety and trust.
This role is a good fit for someone with strong policy judgment, business awareness, and experience working across teams to solve complex, cross-cutting issues.
What You'll Do
- Business & Product Insight: Build a working understanding of Uber's safety products, operations, and risk landscape. Use that context to advise internal teams on how policy and regulatory dynamics should inform product and program decisions.
- Cross-Functional Advisory: Partner with Product, Operations, Legal, and Communications to flag risks, identify opportunities, and shape safety-related strategies. Ensure policy considerations are embedded early in product and program development.
- Regulatory Strategy & Response: Track and interpret emerging safety-related regulation. Help develop coordinated strategies that protect Uber's ability to operate and innovate while strengthening trust with policymakers and the public.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Build and manage relationships with policymakers, advocates, researchers, and industry partners. Use these relationships to inform internal thinking and advance constructive policy outcomes.
- Narrative Development: Translate complex safety work into clear, evidence-based materials for external audiences. Support blog posts, regulatory submissions, research partnerships, and events that strengthen understanding of Uber's safety approach.
- Thought Leadership & Representation: Represent Uber in external forums. Help shape discussions on safety and trust through events, partnerships, and public engagement.
- Bachelor's degree; 5-7 years of experience in public policy, government affairs, advocacy, or a related field.
- Strong preference for those with a background in the technology industry
- Understanding of Uber's business and product, with the ability to identify risks, opportunities, and proactive strategies.
- Experience engaging with state or federal policymakers and advocacy organizations.
- Strong written and oral communicator, with proven ability to synthesize complex ideas into accessible materials and communicate effectively both internal and externally.
- Comfortable asking thoughtful questions, driving for answers and communicating a point of view across multiple teams internally.
- Success working across Public Policy, Communications, Marketing, Legal, and Product teams to align strategies and amplify narratives.
- Strong project management skills to deliver impactful research outputs, events, and campaigns under tight deadlines.
- Proven ability to scope, design, prioritize, and implement cross-functional projects.
- Comfort navigating ambiguity, identifying and solving problems leveraging an understanding of the political and regulatory dynamics relevant to Uber.
- Demonstrated success in project management, product policy, policy analysis, policy research, government affairs, or regulatory advocacy.
- Outstanding ability to scope, design, prioritize, and implement cross-functional projects.
Salary : $159,000 - $177,000