What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Data Analyst, Commercial Planning & Merchant Selection position at Uber?
About The Role
As a Senior Associate for Commercial Strategy and Planning at Uber Eats, you will play a critical role in architecting our merchant ecosystem and designing the economic frameworks that drive merchant success and Uber's overall business performance.
This role sits at the intersection of marketplace strategy, advanced analytics, and commercial execution. You will lead the design and implementation of data-driven strategies that balance selection density with commercial sustainability. You will be a key architect of our merchant portfolio, ensuring we maintain a competitive, high-quality selection that drives eater frequency while optimizing business economics.
This is a high-visibility role where you will provide the analytical horsepower and commercial judgment required to advise senior stakeholders on complex deal structures and long-term portfolio health.
What You'll Do
As a Senior Associate for Commercial Strategy and Planning at Uber Eats, you will play a critical role in architecting our merchant ecosystem and designing the economic frameworks that drive merchant success and Uber's overall business performance.
This role sits at the intersection of marketplace strategy, advanced analytics, and commercial execution. You will lead the design and implementation of data-driven strategies that balance selection density with commercial sustainability. You will be a key architect of our merchant portfolio, ensuring we maintain a competitive, high-quality selection that drives eater frequency while optimizing business economics.
This is a high-visibility role where you will provide the analytical horsepower and commercial judgment required to advise senior stakeholders on complex deal structures and long-term portfolio health.
What You'll Do
- Develop Selection Strategy: Create the strategic framework for merchant acquisition and retention; identify "must-have" selection gaps via geospatial analysis and design the commercial terms needed to win them.
- Optimize Marketplace Economics: Analyze market dynamics to determine the optimal balance of merchant investments and develop sophisticated pricing models that reflect the value each merchant brings to the platform, including the design and ROI modeling of merchant incentives
- Lead Commercial Advisory: Manage the review and advisory process for complex merchant deals, ensuring they adhere to internal guardrails for pricing, ROI, and long-term profitability.
- Advance Data-Driven Insights: Build and own the modeling for merchant performance trends, including price sensitivity and investment impact, to surface actionable insights for the Commercial and Operations teams.
- Drive Process Excellence: Design and implement standardized frameworks, playbooks and AI-based commercial tools that enable faster, more consistent commercial decisions across the merchant lifecycle.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate with Commercial, Finance, and Legal to operationalize pricing and selection decisions, ensuring our value proposition remains competitive and sustainable.
- Governance, AI & Reporting: Build and maintain automated dashboards to track selection health and pricing performance to guide executive-level conversations.
- Analytical Rigor: Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret large datasets and translate them into clear pricing strategies that balance short- and long-term impact.
- Commercial Judgment: Experience advising senior stakeholders on commercial decisions and the ability to build data-backed processes that improve operational efficiency.
- Industry Knowledge: Solid understanding of restaurant economics, marketplace facilitation, and how pricing influences customer conversion and retention.
- Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field such as Engineering, Economics, Math, or Finance.
- 4 years of professional experience in Strategy & Ops, Commercial Strategy, Finance, or Consulting roles within a high-growth marketplace or platform.
- Technical Proficiency: Strong proficiency in SQL and Excel/Google Sheets is required; experience building complex financial or scenario models from scratch and explaining assumptions to non-technical audiences.
- Communication and stakeholder management: Excellent oral and written communication skills, particularly with senior leadership and commercial stakeholders.
Salary : $131,000 - $145,500