Paralegal Labor/employment Law Litigation jobs at Uber

Your Impact in Role:

As a Counsel at Uber focused on platform work, you will not be a traditional Employment Counsel nor a ‘support’ function, you will be at the heart of our business and operations, and work closely with highly skilled cross functional teams.

What You'll Do:

1 . Litigation Management and Resolution Strategy for Platform Work:

2 . The novelty of our model, its evolution and diversity trigger unprecedented complex litigations that you will be in charge of for Germany, Switzerland and Austria.

3 . Legal Compliance and Strategic Advising:

4 . Stay abreast of evolving european and national laws and regulations related to platform work and misclassification, providing strategic guidance for compliance.

5 . Proactively assess potential legal risks specific to platform work and advise senior management on strategic decisions related to the status of platform workers.

6 . Policy Development and Product Counseling:

7 . Collaborate with all relevant functions to develop, review, and align policies with organizational goals and legal requirements, considering the unique aspects of platform work.

8 . Advise on emerging regulations specific to platform work and co define the roadmap in that context.

The Experience You’ll Bring:

1 . Experience in employment and labor law in Germany

2 . Expertise in labor investigations and litigations

3 . Fluent in German and English - French would be a plus

4 . Highly motivated, efficient, organized, and laser-focused on the details

5 . Able to juggle multiple projects at a time in a fast-paced environment

7 . Calm in deadline-driven situations; self-reliant and able to prioritize workload

8 . Have excellent written and verbal communication skills

* 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 .

Your Impact in Role

• Serve as the lead lawyer advising Uber’s HR team on the full range of employment matters relating to recruiting, hiring, training, performance management and terminations in North Asia.
• Draft, review and negotiate a wide range of employment documents, including employment contracts, restrictive covenant agreements, assignment letters, separation agreements and policies and handbooks.
• Partner closely with HR and internal audit on a variety of projects, initiatives, investigations and risk management.
• Advise on risks regarding temporary and outsourced workers, including reviewing and drafting staffing services agreements across North Asia.
• Identify and resolve employment related issues regarding Uber’s business and its relationship with users of the Uber App in our North Asia markets.
• Handle and advise on pre-litigation disputes and employment litigation, briefing outside counsel where required.
• Closely partner with our policy teams to advance future of work reforms across North Asia.
• Assist M&A teams on employment legal considerations around acquisitions and integrations.
• Collaborate closely with colleagues in tax, regulatory legal, product developers and policy and communications teams to pre-empt employment law risks related to Uber’s business, and proactively finding solutions to those issues.

What You Will Need

• Extensive employment law experience at a top tier firm and/or in-house with a focus on APAC-wide or North Asia employment law. Employment litigation a plus.
• Confidence operating in a fast-paced environment.
• Flexibility to perform in nimble, rapidly changing and growing markets.
• History of driving efficient and strategic use of resources, including other support functions, in-house counsel, vendors and external counsel.
• Inquisitiveness, along with the ability to spot issues, get to the heart of the matter, and articulate plans to address them.
• Strong communication skills and demonstrated experience working with senior business leaders.
• Collaborative approach with both business and legal groups, with a strong ability to build relationships, gain credibility and partner with others.
• Passionate about your work and a desire to have a big impact.
• Enthusiastic about Uber!

* 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 .

What You'll Do

2 . Legal support: Drafting and review of legal documents, research and monitoring of legal developments

3 . Litigation/audit/investigation support:

4 . Provide litigation support through preparation of files, collection of supporting documents, monitoring of procedures, supplying of data storage databases.Build, mproveme and keep up to date litigation trackers

5 . Interaction with internal clients, outside counsels and other stakeholders.

6 . Manage day-to-day calendaring/docketing of litigation calendar

7 . Administrative support: Organization of files, monitoring of deadlines and implementation of legal tools

8 . Draft correspondence and assist in special ad-hoc projects

Basic Qualifications

1 . Minimum of 4 years as a litigation or employment law legal assistant, paralegal or counsel

2 . Fluent at least in French and English

Preferred Qualifications

1 . Strong legal writing skills

2 . Paralegal certificate, or completed law school

3 . Strong understanding of litigation process

4 . Highly motivated, efficient, organized, and laser-focused on the details

5 . Able to juggle multiple projects at a time in a fast-paced environment

7 . Calm in deadline-driven situations; self-reliant and able to prioritize workload

8 . Have excellent written and verbal communication skills

9 . Agile on Google Suites

* 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 .

What You'll Do

1. Support Employment Legal team with matter management: this includes matter opening; fee forecasting; administering the approval and payment of legal fees and settlements - including engaging with internal stakeholders
2. Casework support - including matter management, collating relevant information and evidence on matters (advisory or contentious)

What You'll Need

1. Matter management experience - including billing and administrative support
2. Strong organisational and time management skills, including proficiency with sheets and gdocs

Preferred Qualifications

1. Experience working within a legal function, whether in-house or private practice
2. Positive attitude - whilst the role is primarily administrative, it will provide the opportunity to work on contentious and non-contentious matters supporting the Employment legal team both on employee advisory work and platform economy workstreams (contentious and non-contentious)
3. An interest in law - this may include someone with legal qualifications who wants to move into the legal profession

* 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

- - - - What the Candidate Will Do ----

1. Solution Development: Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into scalable and reliable data systems and tools, while ensuring data quality, privacy, and compliance.
2. Data Governance: Champion and enforce data governance practices, including data lineage, metadata management, data quality controls, and privacy regulations.
3. Data Architecture: Design and develop large-scale data systems, including databases, data warehouses, and big data platforms
4. Software Engineering Skills: Excellent programming skills, with expertise in building robust and scalable software solutions using modern software engineering practices
5. Design and build scalable data pipelines for both batch and real-time processing - leveraging Apache Airflow, Spark, and SQL for ETL workflows across diverse data sources (e.g., relational databases, APIs, logs), and using tools like Apache Kafka, Flink, and Spark Structured Streaming to enable near real-time data processing for analytics and monitoring use cases.
6. Automation and Efficiency: Drive automation initiatives by developing scripts, utilities, and frameworks to streamline data processes, improve efficiency, and enforce data governance practices.
7. Collaboration and Mentoring: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor junior engineers
8. Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies in data engineering, Gen AI and Cloud solutions and create innovative solutions for complex challenges
9. Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Maintain comprehensive documentation of data solutions, processes, best practices and actively share knowledge with the team.
10. Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively convey complex technical concepts

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1. 3+ years of experience as a software engineer, with a strong focus on data engineering and large-scale data systems
2. Strong SQL skills
3. Strong in Data Warehousing and Data Modelling concepts
4. Hands-on experience in Hadoop tech stack: HDFS, Hive, Presto, Spark, Flink, Airflow, MapReduce
5. Batch and Real Time Data processing using Airflow, Spark, HUDI, Kafka, Flink
6. Programming languages - Python, Scala etc.
7. Experience in building ETL Data Pipelines
8. Performance Troubleshooting and Tuning

- - - - Preferred Qualifications ----

1. Experience with Cloud Platforms such as AWS and GCP, using services like Amazon S3, EMR, Lambda, Redshift and GCP BigQuery
2. Experience in developing & deploying GenAI powered applications for predictive & generative analytics, code optimization and developer productivity
3. Experience building high-quality end-to-end data solutions in an agile environment from requirements to production.
4. Should be self-motivated and passionate about bringing efficiency into the system through optimizations.
5. Should be able to raise the bar for other engineers by proposing and driving innovative ideas.
6. Experience in mentoring junior team members technically.
7. If need be, Act as a Leader to drive big efforts in collaboration with other engineers or team members.

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$167,000 per year - USD$185,500 per year.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$167,000 per year - USD$185,500 per year.

About the Role

Uber has a lobbying presence in almost every state in the nation, plus DC, the federal government, and a dozen local jurisdictions. As a Program Manager, you will work closely with the US Policy and Federal Affairs teams to support lobbying registration and reporting, consultant contracting, and compliance assessments. You will also help build scalable systems and processes to manage legal support in a fast-paced environment. If you have a government background and are passionate about building processes, we’d love to hear from you.

What You’ll Do:

• Manage federal, state, and local lobbying reporting lifecycle–from registering to fact gathering to reporting.
• Manage internal lobbying databases to support compliance and reporting requirements.
• Identify gaps in processes and build scalable solutions to support an ever-growing Policy portfolio, including leveraging AI and building automated solutions.
• Establish legal tools, playbooks, and training. Help build and update standards and practices for legal review and approvals.
• Serve as a front-line reviewer, working under the supervision of an attorney, to evaluate and provide feedback on questions regarding lobbying registration and reporting.
• Support corporate governance of US political activity.
• Conduct periodic reviews of third-party compliance.
• Coordinate key aspects of contract administration, including basic review, drafting, running approval and signature processes, and distribution and archiving.

Basic Qualifications

• At least 4+ years of experience in a law firm and/or in an in-house/government environment, with experience helping to build internal business processes.
• B.A./B.S.

Preferred Qualifications

• You have experience with lobbying reporting at the federal, state, and/or local levels.
• Familiarity with the political activity available to different 501(c) organizations is a plus.
• Experience with contract / information management systems, including CLM, is a plus.
• The ability to juggle multiple projects at a time, both collaborating as a team to stay in sync and working independently to get the job done.
• Strong interpersonal skills and highly collaborative, with a strong ability to build relationships, gain credibility, and partner with others across Uber.
• Self-motivation with a strong affinity for strategic problem solving and driving action.
• Highly process-oriented, with a strong attention to detail and a focus on building and maintaining systems that ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance across legal and regulatory workflows.
• Inquisitiveness, along with the ability to spot issues, get to the heart of a matter, and articulate plans to address them.
• Embody the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and accountability.
• Enthusiastic about Uber!

For Washington, DC-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$101,000 per year - USD$112,500 per year.

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

What You'll Do

• Work on creating a platform that powers data driven decision making for Uber Rides and Eats line of business
• Be a technical lead for a team that works closely with Science to implement and productionize statistical models
• Design, develop, and deploy new systems to empower fast data-driven decisions
• Build distributed backend systems serving real-time analytics and machine learning features at Uber scale
• Work with the product and science teams to build and drive the technical roadmap and vision for the team

Basic Qualifications

• 4+ years of full-time engineering experience
• Experience working with multiple multi-functional teams (product, science, product ops etc)
• Proficient in Big Data architecture, ETL frameworks and platforms
• Expertise in one or more object-oriented programming languages (e.g. Python, Go, Java, C++) and the eagerness to learn more
• Expert in data-driven architecture and systems design
• BS/MS/Phd in Computer Science or related field required

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building sophisticated systems and knowledge of Hadoop related technologies such as HDFS, Kafka, Hive, and Presto
• A passion for taking ownership. You pride yourself on efficient monitoring, strong documentation, and accurate test coverage and you call something "done" only when these are in place
• Building and earning respect within the team and peers. You believe that you can achieve more on a team - that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You rely on others' candid feedback for continuous improvement and you help others by returning the favor

For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$198,000 per year - USD$220,000 per year.

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