Manager, Creative Strategy, Uber Advertising

About the Role

Creative Studio is Uber’s in-house agency, dedicated to helping premium brands tap into cultural moments that inspire deeper consumer connections. By crafting rich storytelling and immersive experiences across the Uber and Uber Eats ecosystems, we reach an audience that prioritizes IRL experience over passive consumption. We partner with brands to build culture-first campaigns that are seamlessly integrated into the user journey—both digitally and through physical activations—ensuring every interaction surprises, delights, and leaves a lasting impression.

The Manager, Creative Strategy will lead a team of creative strategists to support the US+C Advertising Sales and Agency Partnerships teams. They will be responsible for evaluating the creative opportunity for their respective sales vertical, developing a bold strategic vision to unlock it, and executing that vision to drive shared business results on behalf of the Creative Studio. The Manager, Creative Strategy will also operate as the senior-most client-facing Creative Strategist across their team’s book of business. They will be the face of the Creative Studio across top accounts, strategic partnership pitches and in executive-level client meetings.

What You'll Do:

• Team Oversight: Lead a team of category aligned Creative Strategists who are responsible for championing creativity in advertising on Uber
• Business Ownership: Set team growth goals and develop a comprehensive strategy to ensure they are achieved. Manage team pipeline and strategically allocate resources to ensure shared revenue targets are met/exceeded
• Creative Standards: Set the standard for your team by delivering best-in-class, insights-led pitches that pay out against client briefs. Develop repeatable creative solutions that make it easy for advertisers to understand how they can achieve their business goals with Uber Advertising
• Scaled Solutions: Partner with cross functional partners to build compelling, category-specific commercial packages that maximize business outcomes for advertisers during key seasonal and cultural moments
• Upstream Education: Partner with sales leadership to develop a framework for facilitating upstream client and agency education that will help your team “get ahead of the brief.” Work side-by-side with key brand and creative stakeholders to co-develop award-worthy creative partnerships

Basic Qualfications:

• 6+ years' experience in brand strategy, advertising, creative strategy or similar
• 3+ years' experience leading a team of strategists or similar functions
• Proven track record in Advertising
• Bachelor's degree

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8-10+ years' experience in Creative Strategy, preferably within a digital advertising setting
• 5+ years' experience leading a team of Creative Strategists
• Strategic Storytelling Ability: Proven ability to take complex, new-to-market ad products and turn them into simple, high-impact narratives that clients want to buy
• Team Leadership: Experience managing and mentoring a team of strategists, with a focus on clearing roadblocks and helping them hit revenue targets
• Executive Presence: Comfortability with being the "lead voice" for the Creative Studio in high-stakes meetings with senior client stakeholders and agency partners
• Commercial Intuition: A strong "gut feel" for the advertising industry across different categories (CPG, Tech, etc.) and how to map brand goals to platform solutions
• Operational Resilience: An "intrapreneurial" mindset—someone who is excited to build processes from scratch and can stay effective in a fast-changing environment
• Data-Driven Creativity: Skilled at digging into consumer insights and platform data to find the "why" behind a creative concept
• Upstream Strategic Thinking: Experience in proactive planning—moving beyond the immediate brief to develop long-term frameworks for client and agency education

For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$159,000 per year - USD$177,000 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.