Staff Technical Program Manager, AV Labs

About the Role

Join Uber as a Staff Technical Program Manager to help spearhead AV Labs, a newly formed, high-velocity team of multidisciplinary experts tasked with building the foundational capabilities for our next chapter in AV. In this Staff-level role, you will lead the overarching technical program strategy to leverage our massive distribution and data infrastructure advantage. You will partner with senior engineering leaders across ML, computer vision, data systems, and infrastructure to define multi-year roadmaps and navigate extreme ambiguity. Your work will go beyond complex project execution; you will pioneer the shared technical foundations that accelerate our AV partners, inform critical strategy and investment decisions with technical depth, and ensure Uber retains the foundational expertise to move faster as the space evolves.

What the Candidate Will Do:

1. Define Multi-Year Strategy: Define the overarching technical program strategy and multi-year roadmaps for AV Labs. Partner with senior leadership across ML, infrastructure, and operations to navigate extreme ambiguity in the rapidly evolving autonomy landscape.
2. Pioneer Execution at Scale: Drive the inception and execution of zero-to-one L4 data platforms. Oversee execution excellence across the entire AV Labs portfolio, anticipating systemic bottlenecks and untangling highly complex cross-company dependencies.
3. Shape Architecture and Decisions: Leverage deep technical expertise in massive-scale data systems and end-to-end modeling to influence system architecture, resolve deep technical disagreements among principal engineers, and inform critical investment decisions.
4. Drive Executive Alignment: Lead without formal authority by heavily influencing executive leaders and stakeholders. Champion effective communication by routinely presenting technical strategies, program statuses, and investment recommendations in large, senior-level forums with clarity and impact.
5. Elevate the TPM Organization: Act as a force multiplier for the TPM org by creating and sharing best-in-class frameworks, templates, and processes that prevent teams from "reinventing the wheel." Mentor Senior TPMs and define world-class TPM best practices for AV Labs.

Basic Qualifications:

1. Proven experience of 6+ years as a TPM or Engineering Manager at an Autonomous Vehicle technology development environment with an overall experience of 12+ years.
2. Strong technical experience in platform development at scale.
3. Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, challenges, and risks. Engineers enjoy working closely with you.
4. Excellent written and verbal communication skills and exceptional emotional intelligence.
5. Proven strong cross-team and cross-org stakeholder management. Ability to influence, motivate, and align people across a broad variety of job functions through your relationships.
6. Strong organizational skills to juggle many tasks without losing sight of the highest priority items.
7. Analytical and truth seeking. Ability to understand complex concepts and make reasoned decisions objectively.
8. Data driven: Experience determining effective program KPI's, inclusive of both technical and business OKRs, and using them to measure program success and issues. Strong technical, analytical, and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive decisions.
9. Experienced in project management. Familiar with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies and able to apply them where best suited.
10. Detail-oriented with the ability to thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments where priorities are constantly evolving as the business grows and adapts globally.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics, related quantitative subject area.
2. Developer experience, including writing, testing, and deploying code.
3. Experienced with large-scale change management and implementing culture for engineering organizations.
4. Built standards and frameworks adopted by large engineering organizations.
5. Experience contributing to experimentation design, implementation, analysis, and launch recommendations.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$211,000 per year - USD$234,000 per year.

You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. 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.