at Uber Freight US LLC in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Schedule: Full Time EmploymentJob Type: Hybrid
Salary Type: Salary
Req #:1554
About the Role
Uber Freight connects shippers with truckers, much like how Uber connects riders and drivers. We are a team of entrepreneurial individuals who are redefining the movement of things around the world. On the Uber Freight team, we fiercely believe that our dedication to transportation technologies will bring more harmonious, highly efficient, and increasingly safer transportation logistics to our roads.
Are you a data-minded, entrepreneurial PM who thrives building products that drive customer & business value? Do you have experience building products that enable self-service and seamless end-to-end experiences? If so, this is the perfect role for you. As a Product Manager for Uber Freight Shipping (UFS), you will own growing, scaling and providing a delightful self-service experience for SMB shippers looking to have their goods transported and delivered efficiently. You will be influencing a team of accomplished data scientists and product designers, engineers that build at Uber scale, and industry-leading logistics operators to shape the future of how goods are moved across the country and world.
Join Uber Freight's Product team as a Product Manager and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Freight marketplace products. You'll focus on iterating and deploying impactful products that provide real value to our marketplace stakeholders and drive sustainable growth and profitability for the business.
What the Candidate Will Do
- Product Vision and Strategy: Define a clear product vision and strategy for the team, identifying both short-term and long-term initiatives to create an effective product roadmap.
- User-Centric Approach: Translate user needs into product requirements by deeply understanding user problems and business opportunities - formulating hypotheses, and articulating desired outcomes.
- Communication: Effectively communicate product plans, tradeoffs, and results to a diverse audience, including internal partner teams, executives, end-users, and external customers.
- Experimentation: Launch A/B experiments to test changes and analyze results, making data-driven decisions and tradeoffs to drive product launch decisions.
- Innovation: Lead the discovery, development, and adoption of innovative features and experiences improve marketplace outcomes for both sides of the logistics industry.
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership: Collaborate with a world-class team of engineers, designers, data scientists, and user researchers, setting clear team deliverables, defining the roadmap, and driving execution.
- Cultivate Team Culture: Build and nurture a strong team culture centered around collaboration, execution, and delivering results.
How the candidate will make immediate impact
- Define and execute strategies to optimize sustainable product and revenue growth
- Analyze market trends, competitor offerings, and monitor internal metrics to inform product decisions
- Obsess in the data and details of defects identified by users, operations teams, and intuition
- Conduct A/B testing and experimentation to validate user experience enhancements
- Ensure the higher ROI opportunities are prioritized by collaborating with engineering, design
- Uphold consistent communications with executive leaders to enforce growth strategy and impact quantification
Basic Qualifications
- Minimum of 4 years of Product Management experience developing and deploying world-class products that scale
- Passion for Uber Freight's mission and the company's hybrid technology & operations nature
- Strong curiosity for marketplace, technology and AI advancements
- Strong customer empathy, and the ability to blend user research with data to create a prioritised product roadmap
- Data-first approach to problem solving (know how to use SQL to pull all data from a known data source table)
- Basic understanding of economics and supply vs demand
Preferred Qualifications
- 2+ years of Product Management experience building B2B products for SMB customers providing consumer grade experiences
- Knowledge of and interest in logistics and transportation networks
- Strong analytical skills and experience with data analysis and experimentation
- Proven ability to translate data into actionable insights and strategic recommendations
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Comfortability with presenting to, recommending changes, and pushing back on executive stakeholders
Benefits & Compensation for U.S. Employees
Employees working more than 30 hours in the US at Uber Freight are eligible for benefits like a company sponsored health plan, dental and vision benefits, 401k match, financial and mental wellness benefits, parental leave, short- and long-term disability coverage, life insurance and more. US based employees may also be eligible for a performance or sales incentive bonus program, participation in Uber Freight equity awards, and other types of compensation depending upon the role.
About Uber Freight
Uber Freight is a market-leading enterprise technology company powering intelligent logistics. With a suite of end-to-end logistics applications, managed services and an expansive carrier network, Uber Freight advances supply chains and moves the world's goods. Today, the company manages nearly $20B of freight and one of the largest networks of carriers. It is backed by best-in-class investors and provides services for 1 in 3 Fortune 500 companies, including Del Monte Foods, Nestle, Anheuser-Busch InBev, and more. For more, visit www.uberfreight.com.
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E EOC
Uber Freight is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards 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.
For Chicago-based roles: The salary range for this role is $151,950.00 - $179,250.00 per year
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