What You’ll Do
- Bring deep and varied commercial experience to the team, finding creative solutions to white space issues during drafting.
- Engage and negotiate with external partners, with full-view integration of risk and legal controls in commercial agreements and other outward-facing terms.
- Collaborate closely with colleagues on other legal and cross-functional teams, such as Safety, Product, Policy, Intellectual Property, Insurance and Privacy to provide comprehensive advice and create solutions that allow the business to move quickly and responsibly.
- Be an active and trusted business partner to the collaborative operations, engineering and business development professionals that launch autonomous services and products at Uber.
- Deploy your commercial perspective in reviewing product features and programmatic initiatives to ensure legal, regulatory, safety and risk-mitigation considerations are factored into development requirements and operational decisions.
- Support fleet and electrification commercial initiatives that align with Uber’s goal of creating the best platform for fleets, period – electric or autonomous.
Basic Qualifications
- Minimum of eight (8) years of commercial legal experience in private practice, in-house and/or government.
- J.D. and license to practice law in at least one state.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with autonomous vehicles, vehicle fleets, or on-demand mobility or delivery platforms.
- At least two (2) years of in-house experience is highly preferred.
- Commercial and contracting experience in a regulated industry across multiple markets, delivering clear, actionable terms for clients, customers and partners.
- Excellent business judgment and high comfort level advising senior leaders on a wide range of legal issues related to technology and/or software platforms.
- Strong interpersonal skills and highly collaborative with both business leaders and legal groups, with strong ability to build relationships, gain credibility, and partner across functions to build consensus.
- Clear communicator, team orientated, and willing to take initiative while thinking two steps ahead.
- Confidence and flexibility to operate in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
- Inquisitiveness, along with the ability to spot issues, get to the heart of a matter, and articulate plans to address them.
- Passionate about your work and a desire to have a big impact.
- Enthusiastic about Uber and autonomous vehicles!
For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$243,000 per year - USD$270,000 per year.
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$243,000 per year - USD$270,000 per year.
For Washington, DC-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$243,000 per year - USD$270,000 per year.