Senior Safety Program Manager – AM&D Safety

About the Role

We’re looking for an individual who is passionate about trust and safety to join our Autonomous Mobility and Delivery (AM&D) Safety team. In this role, you’ll become a subject matter expert on the core safety issues impacting our autonomous delivery platforms and the levers we can pull to address them. Using that knowledge, you’ll support end-to-end safety oversight and coordination with AV Delivery partner launches and expansions.

The AM&D team at Uber is seeking to accelerate the arrival of safe, secure autonomous mobility and delivery offerings that complement our existing products and are beneficial for our customers, partners, and communities. This role will work daily with Uber’s Autonomous Mobility and Delivery team including the Director, Head of Safety for Autonomous Mobility & Delivery and AV partner operations managers.

In this specific role, you’ll help guide Uber’s approach to safety for our Autonomous Vehicle (AV) partners and serve as a focal point for internal AV safety coordination across Uber. This will involve AV safety metrics monitoring and incident response, developing and launching safety assessments, and assisting in the development of AV safety best practices. This will be a highly cross-functional role, requiring collaboration with internal and external stakeholders in the complex and evolving AV space. This role will involve strategy, program management, and partner engagement responsibilities with a strong focus on cross functional collaboration.

What the Candidate Will Do

• Support cross-functional safety readiness for AV partner launches, including regulatory alignment, safety plan validation, operational assessments, and stakeholder coordination.
• Coordinate data sharing, SLAs, and incident management frameworks while delivering risk assessments and safety recommendations.
• Evaluate AV partner expansion readiness by reviewing updated safety plans and prior performance trends.
• Align internal teams, facilitate clarification discussions, and deliver a final safety recommendation for expansion approval.
• Monitor real-time safety incidents and escalations while tracking metrics, enforcing SLAs, and maintaining high-quality reporting and data integrity.
• Analyze trends, lead safety reviews, ensure corrective actions are effective, coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders, and deliver regular executive readouts while escalating emerging risks.

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of four years of professional work experience
• Bachelor’s Degree

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a related field such as Trust and Safety, Regulatory Compliance, Operations, or any transportation related field (2+ years)
• Strong project management skills; can bring order to ambiguous problems and help align all partners through to execution
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including drafting executive summaries, white papers, and presentations
• Phenomenal collaborator and someone who proactively partners across teams
• Proven ability to respond to unexpected and challenging situations quickly
• Data management skills; SQL proficiency is a plus

For Chicago, IL-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$118,000 per year - USD$131,000 per year.

For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$131,000 per year - USD$145,500 per year.

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$131,000 per year - USD$145,500 per year.

For Washington, DC-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$131,000 per year - USD$145,500 per year.

For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits.

Uber's mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuels progress. What moves us, moves the world - let's move it forward, together.

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.

Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.