About the Role
As a product lead for Uber's Grocery & Retail Catalog, you'll play a key role in building the most complete and accurate product catalog in the world. Uber to date has successfully helped customers get restaurant food delivered to their doors. We are excited to bring that delight and convenience to virtually everything else. Today, we're focused on the grocery, convenience, alcohol and pharmacy sectors, but this team has broader ambitions to expand into plenty of other long-tail verticals in the future.
In this role, you will be working with a broad set of cross-functional stakeholders across operations, data science, design, engineering, marketing and more.
What the Candidate Will Do:
As Uber expands into Grocery & Retail, we need to build a massive product catalog that is highly accurate so that our customers have confidence in what they're buying, our shoppers accurately find the right products, and merchants achieve the sales growth they are looking for. You will be responsible for partnering with global teams around the company to understand how the catalog can power each experience and develop a strategy to grow and enrich Uber's product catalog.
This is a representative sampling of the areas you might be tackling together with the team you're leading:
Develop OKRs that drive towards a more comprehensive and accurate catalogIdentify and prioritize new product attributes that we should be collecting to power various use cases in the experienceInvestigate new sources for product catalog dataWork with Uber AI to explore ML & LLM's to curate the product catalogCollaborate with Ops to develop processes for manually curating and auditing the accuracy of our product catalog
Basic Qualifications:
Minimum 7 years experience delivering successful and innovative products with your fingerprints all over themCatalog and/or Inventory management Experience. You would have directly built products to support product catalogs or inventory management systems.Technical savviness. Can manifest in different ways: a computer science undergraduate degree, hands-on software engineering experience, or experiences building complex software products side by side with engineers. Technical understanding must go from the highest abstractions down to the metalAttention to detail. The ability to obsess over every single part of the retailing processCustomer obsession. The ability to take on complex product challenges and find elegant, simplifying solutions to avoid making them our users and partner's problemsFinger-tippiness with data. You find a way to get the data you need and whip it into an insightful story with no help. You know how to leverage this data to make decisions without getting stuck in analysis paralysisA "Driver" mindset. You are biased toward action, a great collaborator, a master disambiguator/simplifier, and constantly pushing toward clarity and deliveryGrittiness. You never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and tackle something hands-onA high bar across the board - from your own contributions to the people you work with, to the products you work onA true passion for Uber's mission, our products, and the company's hybrid technology/operations natureA never-ending desire to grow and learn
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience building products from 0 to 1Experience in the grocery, retail, CPG or ecommerce industry
For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$174,000 per year - USD$193,500 per year.
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$174,000 per year - USD$193,500 per year.
For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$174,000 per year - USD$193,500 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. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.
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