Strategy & Planning Lead Sub Saharan Africa jobs at Uber

What the Candidate Will Do

1. Strategic Ownership: Proactively identify business needs and issues for Moto and UberGo. Prioritize projects for the team to define the best path to meet strategic objectives. Motivate the team by explaining the big-picture context and aligning their work with the broader company vision
2. Business Sense & Problem Solving: Translate insights from operational and financial metrics into strategy and action plans. You will identify the root cause of risks and opportunities and propose multiple practical solutions. You'll advise leadership on tough trade-offs and propose solutions that may involve several teams with a strong impact.
3. Team Leadership: Empower your team to implement, optimize, and scale core analyses and processes. You will be responsible for delegating tasks and responsibilities to appropriate team members
4. Product & Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with global and local teams on high-impact and critical initiatives. You will maintain strong working relationships with partners across operations, marketing, customer support, product, policy, and legal to execute new product launches
5. Execution: Oversee the execution of local improvements to ensure market growth and reliability for low-fare products. Monitor metrics to ensure business performance and support decision-making with a strong analytical approach

Basic Qualifications

1. Data-Driven Mentality: You must be able to make strategic decisions based on data analysis and interpretation which includes having experience with data analysis and the ability to interpret and present data to various audiences
2. Communication: Demonstrated experience interpreting and presenting data in an engaging and comprehensive manner. You should be able to advocate for your team and ensure its voice is heard
3. Teamwork: A track record of promoting a team environment where individuals can communicate freely and contribute. You should be able to maintain healthy working relationships, even in disagreement, and actively seek out diverse opinions and feedback
4. Planning & Organization: The ability to plan complex, multi-faceted projects, defining timelines, deliverables, interdependencies, and resource allocation
5. Professional Experience: Five or more years of professional experience, with at least two years in a role that involved people management

Preferred Qualifications

1. Stakeholder management: Involving Public Policy, Legal, and Communication teams
2. Product Acceleration: Experience growing products from 1-100
3. Data analysis tools: SQL, Phyton, and visualization tools

* Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to .

This role demands a unique blend ofdata fluency and stakeholder leadership. The ideal candidate is as comfortable writing SQL queries and building models in BI tools as they are presenting go-to-market strategies to Regional General Managers and Sales leaders. You will design and run the global bookbuilding process, treating it like a product - scoping, testing, iterating, and scaling with rigor.

With global scope and high visibility, this role sits at the intersection of. You will shape how Uber for Business structures its sales engine, ensuring that our sales teams are positioned for success and that we maximize impact across our $700M+ and growing global portfolio.

Bookbuilding Strategy & Execution

• Own the global process for building and balancing seller books across regions, ensuring equitable account allocation and alignment with strategic priorities.
• Develop, test, and operationalize the queries, data sources, and logic that underpin bookbuilding

Data & Insights

• Leverage SQL, Python, and BI tools to design scalable models and insights for segmentation, territory design, and headcount planning.
• Synthesize complex data sets into actionable recommendations for sales leaders.

Stakeholder Management & GTM Alignment

• Partner with Regional General Managers, Country Managers, and Sales Leaders to align on bookbuilding strategy, segmentation adjustments, and headcount planning.
• Act as the trusted advisor on GTM strategy, presenting recommendations and driving alignment across leadership.

Change Management & Communication

• Lead global communication and change management for territory rebalancing and segmentation shifts.
• Drive adoption and clarity around changes, ensuring smooth transitions and minimal disruption to sellers.

Program & Process Management

• Manage bookbuilding like a product, creating a repeatable and transparent playbook for how books evolve each half.
• Run a scrum-like model for iteration and improvement, ensuring the process is hyper-organized and efficient.

Basic Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Sales Operations/Sales Strategy
• Advanced proficiency in SQL (query building and optimization) and hands-on experience with BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Looker, PowerBI).
• Strong proficiency with Python (data manipulation, automation, analytics workflows).
• Demonstrated program management experience — organized, detail-oriented, and process-driven.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Analytics, Economics, Computer Science, or related field.

• Experience in global Sales Operations or within a high-growth SaaS/B2B environment.
• Familiarity with Salesforce.com and sales data workflows.
• Proven ability to communicate complex ideas effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Track record of driving organizational change and aligning cross-functional teams around new processes.
• Experience working in a marketplace or multi-sided platform environment.

What the Candidate Will Do

1. Manage team performance and drive results, guide adherence to policies
2. Lead, coach, mentor, and motivate employees
3. Partner with the Recruiting team on hiring
4. Lead improvements on support logic and processes
5. Address and resolve escalations or further escalate
6. Maintain stakeholder relationships
7. Drive accountability for policies and other guidelines
8. Execute root cause analysis action plans from escalations and agents’ performance
9. Leverage audit results from Service Quality members and guide towards progressive improvements; identify opportunities for additional training & development
10. Complete administrative and HR related tasks for the team

Basic Qualifications

• Some experience in retail, hospitality, or customer service in-person or contact center environment
• FOR INTERNALS: At least 1 year of informal leadership or SME experience
• FOR EXTERNALS: At least 1 year of people management experience
• Basic project management skills
• Proficiency in Google Suite
• Schedule flexibility for a 24/7 environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Supervisory or leadership experience—You have a demonstrated ability to set team goals, drive accountability, develop talent, and stay calm through challenging situations
• Maintain a positive, can-do demeanor and encourage others to do the same
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills – You establish trust and effective working relationships with internal and external partners
• Strong time-management and organizational habits —You prioritize work effectively and drive multiple projects to completion at once

For Chicago, IL-based roles: The base hourly rate amount for this role is USD$29.50 per hour.

You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link .

We’re looking for a strategic and data-driven professional to join the Delivery Commercial Operations team in LATAM as a Senior Strategy & Planning Associate. In this role, you'll champion product adoption and drive demand generation through scalable strategies and tools.

• Act as a regional product champion for Offers: support rollouts, gather feedback, manage escalations, and promote adoption

• Lead planning cycles: define annual and quarterly targets, align with incentive plans, and benchmark against competitor offerings

• Enable commercial teams: lead office hours and training sessions, share best practices, and offer consultative support for campaign optimization

• Design and scale adoption strategies across managed and unmanaged merchants, ensuring alignment with local and global goals

• Build and maintain performance dashboards, automated tools, and offer recommendation systems

• Support the commercial organization with data analysis and insights to inform execution and unlock growth opportunities

• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across functions and influence stakeholders

• Experience presenting to large audiences and driving alignment across teams

• Solid analytical skills, with hands-on experience in Sheets and SQL

• Organizational strength to manage multiple projects and deadlines

• Strategic mindset with an ability to move into execution when needed

• Fluency in English and Spanish

• 5+ years of experience in Strategy & Planning, Sales Operations, Business Analytics, Marketing Ops, or Consulting

• Experience working with CRM platforms (Salesforce or similar)

• Experience with product enablement and commercial tooling

• Exposure to regional or global cross-functional environments

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and prioritizing effectively in fast-paced settings

* Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to .

About the Role

Your primary mission will be to architect a world-class search ecosystem for all Uber employees. This requires a dual-pronged technical strategy: leading the in-house development of novel AI components while also conducting deep evaluations of cutting-edge third-party solutions. You will be the key technical decision-maker on when to build and when to integrate.

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1. Architect the Ecosystem: Design and own the technical vision for Uber's next-generation enterprise search platform, creating a cohesive strategy that integrates first-party AI models with best-in-class third-party technologies.
2. Lead AI Implementation: Drive the exploration and implementation of advanced AI capabilities. This includes architecting conversational interfaces, enabling multi-step reasoning, and bringing agentic AI functionalities to our users, whether through in-house development or strategic integration.
3. Make Critical Build-vs-Buy Decisions: Conduct deep technical evaluations of industry-leading AI solutions. You will own the process of vetting vendors, prototyping integrations, and providing clear recommendations to leadership.
4. Lead and Mentor: Lead a world-class team of software and machine learning engineers. Provide technical guidance, conduct architectural reviews, and foster a culture of innovation and engineering excellence.
5. Build and Integrate: Remain hands-on, writing production-quality code for critical custom components, integration layers, and core platform infrastructure.
6. Collaborate and Influence: Work closely with senior leadership, product managers, and stakeholders across the company to define the roadmap and ensure your team's work aligns with Uber's strategic goals.

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1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
2. 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with a proven track record of shipping complex.
3. Strong programming proficiency in Python and experience with systems programming languages (e.g., Go, Java, C++).
4. Significant experience in designing and building production systems leveraging machine learning, especially in Search, NLP, or Conversational AI.
5. 2+ years of experience in a formal or informal technical leadership role, including mentoring engineers and setting technical direction for a team.

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1. Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related field.
2. Experience architecting systems that involve Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and vector databases.
3. Demonstrated experience making strategic build-vs-buy decisions and integrating large-scale third-party software or SaaS platforms into a complex enterprise environment.
4. Experience with the architecture of AI agentic systems or complex, multi-step LLM-powered workflows (either through building or integration).
5. Expertise with both traditional search technologies (e.g., Elasticsearch) and modern semantic search paradigms.
6. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical trade-offs to diverse audiences and influence technical strategy at a senior level.
7. A strong product intuition and a passion for creating user-centric AI experiences that solve real-world problems.

* Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to .

About the Role

We’re looking for a Strategy & Planning Sr. Associate to help us better understand the market, anticipate trends, and turn complex data into clear, actionable strategies.

What You'll Do

• Act as a strategic advisor and thought partner to the business, building strong relationships with leadership.

• Build and maintain competitive intelligence models that track market performance and competitor activity.

• Develop dashboards and analytical tools to monitor key business KPIs and provide visibility into market dynamics.

• Conduct exploratory and statistical analyses to identify competitor behavior, market shifts, and growth opportunities.

• Use Python and SQL to build models and work efficiently with large datasets.

• Translate technical findings into clear business strategies for technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership.

What You'll Need

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in Business Strategy, Business Intelligence, Consulting, Analytics, Strategy & Planning, or any related fields with at least 2 years working directly with complex datasets.

• Full professional fluency in Spanish and English.

• Proficiency in Python and SQL for developing models and extracting insights from large datasets.

• Strong business acumen and the ability to anticipate and analyze market trends.

• Has a solid understanding of statistics, modeling, and regressions (a curious, analytical mindset is a big plus!).

• Excellent attention to detail, balanced with the ability to execute quickly and efficiently.

• Strong communication and storytelling skills—able to present insights clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders alike.

• Self-starter mindset with the ability to work independently and collaborate across teams.

Bonus Points

• Experience in competitive intelligence, market analysis, or landscape evaluation.

• Data-first decision-making approach.

* Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to .

About the Role

We are looking for a Strategy & Analytics Associate to drive the growth and success of our Embedded Insurance products for Platform users globally. This role involves developing growth strategies, supporting product and business planning, conducting user segmentation, portfolio & user studies and sales funnel analytics. Responsibilities also include coordinating cross-functional initiatives to enhance product penetration and revenue growth while delivering exceptional customer value.

What You'll Do

1. Support growth analytics by developing sales and sales funnel insights through data analysis, customer segmentation to uncover insights that explain the drivers of adoption, retention, and cancellations.
2. Create and Test hypotheses around consumer behavior—such as opt-in triggers, churn risks, and upsell opportunities— support scaled experiments (A/B and multivariate XPs) to validate them, and present findings along with recommended solutions.
3. Regularly track and analyze dashboards to diagnose growth deviations and to provide relevant and actionable insights for the Embedded Insurance team.
4. Collaborate with the Data Science team post-experimentation to conduct deeper analyses based on high-level insights provided by DS
5. Partner with the Global Embedded Insurance Growth Team to create, analyze, and use survey output to create insights and campaigns to recommend optimal pricing strategies and product–market fit.
6. Conduct pricing optimization by supporting the testing, rollout, and measurement of promotional offerings on embedded insurance products, including pre- and post-rollout analyses across multiple regions to drive growth.pricing optimization
7. Support Long Range Planning , product feature impact sizing, and providing data support for building business cases and insurance product and proposition development.
8. Coordinate with Product, DS, Ops, CRM & Marketing to Drive on‑time product launches & unblock any data dependencies

Basic Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s degree in Math, Statistics, Economics, Business or Engineering, Computer Science, Operation Research, Machine Learning or other quantitative fields.
2. 3+ years of experience in a data-driven role within strategy, operations, e-commerce, tech, or consulting.
3. Strong SQL proficiency: Advanced analytical and quantitative skills, including proficiency in SQL and the ability to build and maintain robust strategic, financial and operational models.
4. Excellent communication and proven track record in stakeholder management and cross-functional execution

Preferred Qualifications

1. MBA or other advanced degree in a relevant field.
2. Proven experience in approaching data analysis using a structured, hypothesis-driven methodology, with the ability to craft compelling and well-supported narratives and recommendations based on insights.
3. Strong storytelling skills: able to distill complex and hard-to-find insights into a concise, engaging data story with excellent communication and collaboration capabilities.
4. Experience in a high-growth, fast-paced environment (such as a tech company, startup, or consulting firm), with a track record of adapting quickly, solving ambiguous problems, and collaborating across teams.
5. A proactive, ownership-driven mindset with a bias for action. Comfortable working independently when needed and enthusiastic about innovating and continuously improving processes in a dynamic space.
6. Ability to manage multiple priorities effectively in a fast-moving environment.
7. Experience in the insurance industry is a plus.

* Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to .