What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Technical Program Manager position at Uber?
About The Role And Team
Uber AI Solutions is a mini-startup within Uber building the next generation of work opportunities for our earners. You'll join a fast-paced, ambitious group operating in high ambiguity to deliver technology and a durable business that will power the world's AI transformation. We build with rapid customer validation and tight experiment loops, favoring crisp decision-making and metrics over myths to ensure 0→1 learning scales with reliability and safety.
As a Senior TPM, you are a bridge and a connector who moves fluidly from the big picture to the smallest details to deliver complex, strategic projects under tight deadlines. We are looking for entrepreneurs and builders who bring structure to chaos and motivate others by surfacing information at the right level of fidelity. You must be prepared to navigate communication blockers and build deep trust across Product, Engineering, Legal, and Ops. If you are intuitive, driven, and not afraid to be direct while acting with integrity, come help us build the next unlock of knowledge work at Uber.
What You'll Do
Uber AI Solutions is a mini-startup within Uber building the next generation of work opportunities for our earners. You'll join a fast-paced, ambitious group operating in high ambiguity to deliver technology and a durable business that will power the world's AI transformation. We build with rapid customer validation and tight experiment loops, favoring crisp decision-making and metrics over myths to ensure 0→1 learning scales with reliability and safety.
As a Senior TPM, you are a bridge and a connector who moves fluidly from the big picture to the smallest details to deliver complex, strategic projects under tight deadlines. We are looking for entrepreneurs and builders who bring structure to chaos and motivate others by surfacing information at the right level of fidelity. You must be prepared to navigate communication blockers and build deep trust across Product, Engineering, Legal, and Ops. If you are intuitive, driven, and not afraid to be direct while acting with integrity, come help us build the next unlock of knowledge work at Uber.
What You'll Do
- Partner with product and engineering leads to scope strategic bets and translate them into clear program plans, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
- Drive large, technical, cross-functional programs end-to-end-planning, execution, and scale-often while navigating shifting priorities and tight timelines.
- Align and orchestrate multiple teams and stakeholders, establishing operating rhythms that surface the right information to keep everyone pointed at outcomes.
- Set accountability with transparent milestones, dependencies, risks, and decision logs, communicating status crisply to executives and partners.
- Develop a strong grasp of systems architecture and platform tradeoffs to ask incisive questions, propose alternatives, and unblock teams quickly.
- Raise the bar on execution velocity and quality by introducing pragmatic frameworks, templates, and tools that help the organization scale.
- 8 years of overall experience building software or systems and 5 years as a TPM or Engineering Manager.
- Strong technical experience in platform development at scale with the ability to understand technical designs, challenges, and risks.
- Proven track record of strong cross-team and cross-org stakeholder management, influencing people across broad job functions.
- Data-driven mindset with experience determining effective program KPIs and using metrics to back up assumptions and recommendations.
- Experienced in project management, including both Agile and Waterfall methodologies, with a focus on facilitating consensus and making hard decisions.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience working at a high-paced, fast-growing tech startup or within an established company with a strong TPM culture.
- Hands-on developer experience, including writing, testing, and deploying code.
- Ability to drive projects through all lifecycle stages, including idea inception, stakeholder engagement, and post-implementation transitions.
- Demonstrated ability to identify and reconcile architectural gaps while reducing technical debt across teams.