Lead Product Manager

**About the Role**

At Uber, we pride ourselves on our large global footprint and hyper-growth, and our financial products are no exception. As the Product Manager within the Uber Financial Products team, you will have the opportunity to work on products that truly drive growth for the company. Financial products are crucial in helping all the user segments in our dynamic marketplace. What you create will be consumer facing and immensely impactful.

In this role, you will work building and operationalizing market leading financial products is foundational to Uberʼs success. The Financial Products team is looking for a Lead Product Manager for our Earners & Merchants team. Current financial products for these users include things like instant payouts, debit cards for Earners, various types of lending products for our earners and merchants, and remittances. We also want you to create new products that don't exist yet to better serve our customers.

This is a high impact, leadership role, working cross functionally across all business lines to set the vision, and move quickly to clear obstacles for teams to build, test and learn. You will own and drive the roadmap, leading a team of product managers, to build the most engaging and compelling experiences for our drivers, couriers, and merchants. With our unique and scalable technology stack, you will launch competitive differentiators that will grow Uber as the preferred platform of choice for those users. You will lead with deep customer empathy, and rely on data and user research to make informed decisions with solid product instincts.
- Lead a Product team focused on designing and building these products and services.
- Formulate a long and short-term strategy, based on deep user insights and a strong understanding of current and evolving financial products that leverage technology to create a magical user experience.
- Develop relationships with external partners, lines of businesses, regional leaders and make strategic trade-offs informed by data that balances risk and growth objectives
- Collaborate and partner with Engineering, Data Science, Product Design, and Business Ops teams to create a roadmap and drive execution across the organization.
- Anticipate and remove obstacles that slow down or prevent us from delivering on operational, product and program objectives.
- Effectively present and communicate strategy, implementation and growth plans to various stakeholders ranging from business audiences to senior leadership
- Build and lead a high performing team
- Basic Qualifications -- Minimum of 8 years of experience as consumer-oriented product leader is required.
- Direct experience launching 0 to 1 products at scale with exceptional user experiences
- Proven track record of effectively collaborating with design, engineering, and data science teams to build sophisticated, data-driven systems that deliver compelling value to customers
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
- Ability to analyze data and make data-driven decisions is essential
- Proficiency in the English language
- Preferred Qualifications -- Domain expertise in Financial Services for the retail and SMB spaces, especially at leading Fintech companies.
- A combination of early stage product experience finding product market fit at a startup or larger company combined with scaled experience at a leading technology company.
- Broad experience building and leading product teams, ideally in a complex, global, rapidly evolving regulatory environment.
- Consistent track record of linking product development issues to broader business and operational goals, dealing with complex projects and meeting conflicting prioritization and resourcing demands.
- A strategic, forward looking problem solver with a participatory management style and team building skills, who can act quickly and decisively when required.
- Ability to drive and empower multi-functional teams while excelling and thriving in a fast-paced, fluid, collaborative environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially in describing product management concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Possess a passion for excellence with the ability to inspire others to the highest standards through leading by example
- Bachelorʼs and/or Masterʼs Degree in a technical field
- Portuguese and/or Spanish skills are a plus