Strategic Operations Manager, Uber Eats
Uber
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About The Role
Uber Eats is revolutionizing instant delivery and making dining effortless: from eating locally to ordering groceries or to celebrating with a bottle of wine. The options are endless. Working at Uber Eats means delivering on all possibilities, not just for customers, but for merchants trying to grow their business and for delivery people searching for earnings opportunities.
We are looking for an outstanding individual to join our US & Canada Strategic Operations team who is passionate about designing and building creative solutions for our most complex problems. You will work closely with our leadership team, and drive alignment across the entire organization, including Product, Engineering, and Customer Support.
In this Strategic Operations Manager, Uber Eats role, you will help shape the strategy and optimize Delivery operations in one of our verticals across Eater (consumer), Courier (supply partner), Marketplace, and Merchant. You'll design and lead high-impact projects and experiments to drive growth and efficiency.
This role will partner closely with Product, Territory (Local) Operations, Finance, Marketing, Tech, and Customer Support teams to execute key priorities and measure results.
What You'll Do
- Proactively identify opportunities for performance improvement in your area of ownership, ranging from growing supply and demand, segmenting our customer base, improving our merchant experience, or one of our many delivery priorities
- Identify, scope, and recommend a solution, then take ownership for delivering on the project and the outcomes, as well as keeping leadership informed of progress
- Take accountability for project outcomes, ensure delivery on critical project metrics, and keep others informed of progress
- Analyze sophisticated data, build models, and aggregate insights to drive key business decisions and policies
- Advise senior leadership on long-term strategy and decision making by defining critical metrics, developing dashboards, and providing strategic insights
- Work with Product teams to guide the development of our solutions based on business and customer needs. Project manage cross-functional work streams for key Product roll-outs across the US and Canada. Set and measure key performance indicators for roll-outs you oversee.
- Collaborate and work cross-functionally with other Operations teams as well as with Product, Data Science, Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Customer Support to ensure insights inform broader critical initiatives
Basic Qualifications
- 1.5+ years of professional work experience in a related field (consulting, investment banking, technology, operations, strategy, or analytics)
- SQL and Excel/Google Sheets proficiency
- Bachelor's degree
Preferred Qualifications
- 2-4 years of professional work experience in a related field, such as consulting, investment banking, strategy, operations, or analytics
- Strong Excel/Google Sheets or SQL proficiency
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment
- Experience problem-solving and proposing unique solutions to complex issues
- Strong experience building and executing complex processes
- Strong communication and presentation skills, including experience presenting data & insights to a sophisticated audience
- Experience with quantitative data analysis to provide deep measurable insights
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills - building deep, trust-based relationships with teams and cross-functional partners
- Strong business judgment and critical thinking skills with the ability to use data to develop strategies and make decisions quickly
Key skills/competency
- Operations Management
- Strategic Planning
- Data Analysis
- Project Management
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Performance Improvement
- SQL Proficiency
- Excel Modeling
- Stakeholder Management
- Business Acumen
How to Get Hired at Uber
- Research Uber's culture: Study their mission, values, recent news, and employee testimonials on LinkedIn and Glassdoor.
- Tailor your resume strategically: Highlight experience in operations, data analysis, SQL, and project management, matching keywords from the Strategic Operations Manager, Uber Eats job description.
- Showcase cross-functional impact: Prepare examples demonstrating your ability to collaborate, influence stakeholders, and drive alignment across diverse teams at Uber.
- Master data-driven problem-solving: Be ready for case studies or questions requiring you to analyze data, build models, and propose solutions for complex operational challenges at Uber Eats.
- Prepare for behavioral interviews: Focus on situations where you thrived in fast-paced environments, managed ambiguity, and delivered measurable results in strategic operations.
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