About the position
Uber is seeking a Technical Program Manager (TPM) to drive structure and coordination for large-scale, complex engineering initiatives across the Storage & Search Platform. This role focuses on enabling cross-team collaboration to modernize the storage stack, enhance efficiency, improve reliability, and support cloud infrastructure efforts. Your contributions will help streamline execution and ensure alignment across multiple engineering teams. The Uber Technical Program Management (TPM) team plays a critical role in driving high-impact, org-wide initiatives and continuously improving processes to enhance the efficiency of our product and engineering organizations. The Storage & Search Platform powers a wide range of use cases across Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Operations, supporting key business areas such as Rides, Eats, Delivery, Safety, and Maps. With Uber's data volumes experiencing exponential growth, this platform is essential to enabling the company's operations at scale. To support these mission-critical use cases, the Storage & Search Platform is engineered to be one of the most sophisticated systems in the world.
Responsibilities
- Lead all aspects of project progress, resolving dependencies, evaluating risks, and communicating status to upper management and project team members.
- Engage and energize teams to achieve goals.
- Proactively remove obstacles to drive momentum, progress, and results.
- Identify communication gaps, manage issues, team concerns, and provide support to teams balancing opposing priorities.
- Contribute to the management of the multi-functional strategic planning and business planning process.
- Lead conversations with key team members to develop concepts for strategic initiatives.
- Develop detailed program/project plans including roadmaps, funding planning, resource planning, and hiring goals.
- Implement continuous improvements to the engineering organization and the program management process.
- Share program/project process frameworks, tools, and standard methodologies that can be adopted throughout the organization.
Requirements
- Proven track record as a TPM, Engineering Manager, and/or Architect in a software, SaaS, or systems development environment.
- Technical proficiency with an ability to understand technical architecture, challenges, risks, and propose alternatives.
- Strong experience in large scale distributed systems, such as online storage and database systems (SQL and No-SQL), Search systems, and/or Data Lake ecosystems.
- Technical degree in computer science or related field.
- Proven cross-team and cross-org program management.
- Metrics driven: experience determining effective program KPI's and using them to measure program success and issues.
- Strong organizational skills to prioritize tasks without losing sight of the highest priority items.
- Identifying process gaps, measuring progress, and balancing engineering and product efficiency with process overhead.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience as a developer which includes writing, testing, and deploying code.
Benefits
- Eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program.
- May be offered an equity award & other types of compensation.
- Eligible for various benefits.
