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About Uber

Uber is a transportation company with an app that allows passengers to hail a ride and drivers to charge fares and get paid. Through its mobile app, users can book rides, order meals, and connect with shipping solutions, all aimed at enhancing transportation and logistics efficiency.

Your role

This individual will work closely with leadership to ensure that each project’s scope and direction are on schedule and meeting the objective it was designed for. You will be working with a driven APAC Comm Ops team, employees, stakeholders, and management and will often be required to multitask skillfully. 

What you will do:

• Project Management: Manage, support, and monitor various regional and site-level projects, across multiple teams dealing with subject matters such as quality and service improvements, creating and improving capabilities, data analytics, migrations, people initiatives, reporting improvements, and process standardization.
• Communication: You will communicate directly and collaborate with your team members and stakeholders. Presenting organized thoughts and producing concise, and error-free materials such as reports, summaries, data tables, charts, emails, etc. in a flow. 
• Planning & Organizing: You are expected to possess the utmost planning and organizing skills.
• Accountable for ensuring that all deliverables are completed on time either by yourself or by your resource.
• Create short-term plans and timelines for executing tasks proactively inquire about individual deadlines and shift priorities as needed.
• Develop, implement, and govern new processes for specific functions, and provide visibility to the milestones and performance across all functions.
• Problem-Solving: You are expected to understand fundamental, well-scoped problems and ask clarifying questions to generate actionable insights and propose simple frameworks and methodologies that consider the business context.
• Proactively work to remove or escalate risks or issues and enable forward momentum and progress.
• Continuous Improvement: You are responsible for monitoring, participating in, and documenting process improvement projects to drive better performance and profitability. 
• Teamwork: As part of a team, you are expected to maintain healthy working relationships with your teammates, even in disagreement. You should be able to compromise when necessary to help the team achieve goals.
• Stakeholder management: As a project manager, you will work with different teams and stakeholders and properly manage your relationships with them. 
• Keeping them informed on the progress, changes, and other vital issues that may come up. 
• Work with APAC senior leadership as a thought partner to ensure that they can achieve desired goals and work towards timely execution.
• Source and use feedback gathered from the stakeholders whether internal or external and make sure necessary adjustments are made. 

Training & development

The Drive Your Growth philosophy is Uber's unique approach to development, designed to motivate and inspire employees to take the wheel and navigate their personalized career path at Uber. Grow through on-the-job experience, stretch assignments, and Gigs (temporary internal roles across the company)—and learn in the flow of work.

Benefits

At Uber, their focus is to support your overall well-being by offering a holistic set of benefits so you can be your best authentic self.

• One of their top priorities is to maintain the health and well-being of you, your family, and the greater Uber community. To achieve this goal, they offer robust and comprehensive healthcare and risk plans.
• Receive credits for Rides and Eats plus a discount. Credits are refreshed monthly and expire at the end of the month if not used.
• Receive a well-being stipend to use on your physical and mental well-being, from gym memberships to fitness wearables.
• Life happens, so they offer benefits to support you and your family members’ mental well-being too. 

Career progression

At Uber, you control your professional growth. Choose your focus, learning pace, and skill development. Through mentorship, skill-building programs, and real-world projects, interns can shape their future success. Outstanding interns may discover exciting full-time opportunities, embarking on a lifelong journey where imagination and creativity thrive.

Work-life balance

They believe in the value that in-person collaboration and community build, but providing flexible ways of working is just as important. That’s why their work approach is based on balancing flexibility, productivity, and collaboration. Plus, every employee can work from anywhere for up to four weeks per year.

• Most employees spend at least half of their work time in the office, with Tuesday and Thursday as anchor days across the company where all non-remote employees work in person.
• They have flexibility for some employees to be fully remote, depending on their role and location.

Company culture

They are Uber. The go-getters. Relentless in their mission to help people go anywhere, get anything, and earn their way. Movement powers them—it's their lifeblood, driving them each morning to reimagine better ways to move.

About you

Basic Qualifications:

Experience:

• 0-2 years experience ( Exp. in Project Management is good to have).
• Internal: Must be performing in the current role for 6 months.
• Has worked to coordinate across multiple teams to develop strategies and foster a cohesive and creative work environment.

Technical skills: Strong familiarity with the following tools:

• Google Sheets / Excel.
• Google Slides / PowerPoint.
• Google Docs / Word.
• Critical thinking: Should be able to identify the root cause of a problem through a deep-dive analysis and suggest initiatives to resolve the identified issue.
• Communication: Able to communicate insightful and meaningful recommendations to the team.

Preferred qualifications (Nice to have): 

• Asana or any project management tool.
• SurveyMonkey / Google Forms.
• Google Data Studio / Tableau.
• SQL / Python programming skills.
• Lean Six Sigma Methodology / formal project management education.
• COPC Exposure (Either on HPMT, Customer Journey Mapping, or BPCX).

Source

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• university-uber.icims.com/jobs
• uber.com/us/en/careers/grow/benefits/values
• youtube.com/@uber