What You'll Do
- Review Product roadmaps and specific proposals and provide advice and recommendations to Product, Operations, and Legal stakeholders.
- Project manage soliciting feedback and input from Local Policy and Communications teams on specific product proposals and tracking progress towards goals.
- Collaborate with the Work Policy team as they track legislative, regulatory and societal trends associated with platform work around the world that might inform Product strategy, development, and launches.
- Keep Local Policy informed of Product plans and timelines to support on-going local Policy priorities.
- Scope, design, support, and help implement cross-functional Go-To-Market strategies, playbooks, and templates for new product pilots and launches.
- Work closely with cross-functional global teams to develop and communicate Uber's positions on work and product development in regulatory submissions, stakeholder meetings, and other external-facing convenings.
- Occasionally represent Uber on work and product issues at public events and conferences.
- Maintain relationships with external advocate groups, think tanks, academic organizations, and other industry peers that might inform Uber's policies and product features.
- Translate and guide Uber’s product development vision into the most durable, scalable narrative that will ensure customers, workers, and cities continue to benefit from Uber’s technology innovations.
- Find and close knowledge gaps as they emerge about how Uber’s products and marketplaces work.
- Propose and facilitate research on marketplaces that supports flexible work.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree, with 5+ years experience in public policy, advocacy, or government.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong political acumen and strategic thinker.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including ability to develop smart, persuasive content and collateral.
- Ability to distill and translate complex, technical materials into plain english.
- A deeply curious self-starter who is eager to improve internal comprehension to ensure smart decision making.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and coalition-building skills.
- Highly organized.
- Comfortable adjusting priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Calm under pressure.
Advanced degree.
- Experience working in a corporate setting, especially tech, and in regulated industries.
- Strong business acumen and familiarity with economics and basic statistical analysis.
- Creative and solutions-oriented, particularly solutions that can scale.
- Deep empathy and emotional intelligence.
- Comfortable developing a point of view and advocating for it, but open to competing viewpoints and new information.
- Experience partnering with senior leaders and executives on high-impact projects and balancing multiple business and/or policy priorities.
For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$124,000 per year - USD$137,500 per year.
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$124,000 per year - USD$137,500 per year.
For Washington, DC-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$124,000 per year - USD$137,500 per year.