Uber Freight is looking for an engineering leader to execute the team's ambitious and fast-paced product strategy, leading distributed teams and being responsible for end-to-end brokerage experience and efficiency.
Requirements
- Strong engineering fundamentals and building a culture of team that is great at building quality software and focusing on engineering fundamentals.
- Experience executing against high-stakes business goals and extensive engineering priorities.
- Experience with analytical problem spaces and strong collaboration with data science and machine learning functions.
- A strong ability to shepherd the design and implementation of robust, high-scale systems and to challenge engineers to develop extensible and reusable solutions.
- Good understanding of AI technologies and their adoption in driving efficiencies and across the organization.
- Experience in marketplace, pricing, fulfillment or complex backend systems
Responsibilities
- Lead a product area to deliver best in class Brokerage and Market experience
- Work with stakeholders and multi-functional teams to lead planning and execution through a full product cycle
- Partner with engineering teams, help see opportunities, gather requirements, and help shape the technology roadmap and vision for the team
- Lean on technical experience to facilitate technical decision making and raise the bar on the team’s engineering craft
- Hire high-quality engineering talent, lead and develop your team
- Develop an operational model to achieve operational excellence for engineering and product metrics
- Foster a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and excellence.
Other
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, with 7+ years as an engineering manager and people leader
- BS, MS or PhD degree in computer science, related field or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience partnering across functions and organizational boundaries to effectively advocate for team, business, and company priorities.
- A strong business sense and ability to challenge and partner with product managers and business stakeholders.
- A track record of delivering results in fast-paced and highly ambiguous environments.
- Excellent communication and analytical ability to understand the business value of engineering decisions and articulate a narrative about their importance.
