What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Staff Tech Lead Manager - Pricing & Incentives position at Uber?
About The Role
This role sits within Uber's Mobility Marketplace team, focusing on pricing and incentives. The team optimizes pricing and incentives to balance the market, maximize revenue, and adapt dynamic trip pricing to marketplace conditions.
You'll work on some of Uber's most strategic marketplace challenges at a global scale, directly impacting the business.
What You Will Do
This role sits within Uber's Mobility Marketplace team, focusing on pricing and incentives. The team optimizes pricing and incentives to balance the market, maximize revenue, and adapt dynamic trip pricing to marketplace conditions.
You'll work on some of Uber's most strategic marketplace challenges at a global scale, directly impacting the business.
What You Will Do
- Build and scale a high-performing team by attracting top talent and refining team structure. Mentor and coach ICs and managers for both technical and leadership growth.
- Lead ML modeling teams responsible for large-scale applied machine learning in forecasting and optimization.
- Shape long-term product and technical vision for the mobility marketplace.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Data Science, Product, and Business to drive technical direction in systems and modeling frameworks.
- Define and influence product strategy and roadmap in partnership with Product and Business teams.
- Communicate vision effectively, representing engineering in leadership forums and strategic discussions.
- Translate strategy into execution with practical quarterly OKRs.
- Drive operational excellence by establishing metrics for product and engineering performance.
- Collaborate with marketplace teams (e.g., rider pricing, matching) and cross-functional orgs (platform, earner teams).
- Drive innovation and investigate open problems in marketplace optimization.
- Present team initiatives in leadership forums.
- MS/PhD in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- 10 years of software development experience.
- 3 years of experience as a people manager.
- Proven ability to work in and contribute to cross-functional teams.
- Experience leading teams managing production optimization systems (e.g., recommendation, search).
- Strong analytical skills.
- Hands-on experience with ML and optimization systems.
- Strong organizational skills with experience in large, cross-functional teams.
- Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills.
- Deep understanding of CS fundamentals, software engineering principles, and development methodologies.
- Experience managing managers.
- Experience deploying ML technologies into products.
- Strategic thinker with a track record of driving technical and organizational innovation.
Salary : $257,000 - $285,500