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Sr Program Manager, Tech

San Francisco, California, United StatesOnsiteFull TimeSenior$167,000–$185,500 /yrPosted 2 months agoVisa sponsorship available

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Role summary

The Sr Program Manager, Tech is responsible for driving engineering process efficiency and effectiveness through continuous improvement and innovation. This role focuses on streamlining complex cross-organizational interactions, managing critical processes, and ensuring smooth operations within the engineering organization. The candidate will act as a liaison between engineering, product, and cross-functional stakeholders to drive alignment, scale excellence, and improve velocity. Key responsibilities include managing engineering excellence processes, operational cadence, execution velocity, and stakeholder relationships, with a focus on creating systems and rituals that optimize engineering operations.

About The Role
A Sr Program Manager Tech plays a pivotal role in driving the efficiency and effectiveness of ongoing engineering processes. This role focuses on continuous improvement, innovation, and streamlining complex cross-organizational interactions. This person will work to enhance organizational efficiency, manage critical processes, and ensure smooth operations within the engineering organization. We are looking for someone who is an owner, organized, and excited about making large organizations and functions efficient and effective in execution.
We're also looking for an individual who can bring clarity to complexity, operational magic to ambiguity, and energy to every interaction. You'll be the connective tissue between engineering, product, and cross-functional stakeholders-driving alignment, scaling excellence, and unlocking velocity.
This isn't just about managing timelines. It's about creating the systems and rituals that keep engineering running like a well-oiled machine. It's about seeing around corners, solving for scale, and making great teams even better.
If you're highly organized, deeply curious, and excited to build impact from the inside out, we want to hear from you.
What The Candidate Will Do

  • Manage Engineering excellence processes, including: Key Engineering health, Reliability initiatives, Launch gating and approvals, Critical projects leadership reviews and Support planning processes.
  • Manage the operational cadence of the business including: facilitating leadership meetings, all hands, and strategic planning sessions
  • Improve execution velocity and efficiency including: developing a list of critical challenges that need to be resolved and assembling the right data and most relevant metrics and information to analyze and enable nimble decision-makings.
  • Support Infra Capacity management processes.
  • Streamline complex areas of continuous cross-organizational interactions.
  • Ensure information flows clearly and efficiently to enable teams to deliver high quality results
  • Drive leadership towards clear, efficient, and accountable decision making
  • Manage key stakeholder relationships, including consolidated reviews and updates.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in program management or a similar role.
  • Proven project management skills, including planning, scheduling, and budgeting.
  • Excellent communication in English and interpersonal skills.
  • Experience with process management and improvement methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Degree in Engineering or Business Administration.
  • Experience in the relevant engineering industry or domain.
  • Experience leading process improvement initiatives.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Technical background and understanding of engineering processes .

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$167,000 per year - USD$185,500 per year. For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$167,000 per year - USD$185,500 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. 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.

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