Manager, Strategy & Planning, Delivery Ads

About the Role

The Delivery Ads team is on a mission to build and scale Uber's Retail Media Network, enabling merchants on Uber Eats to effectively reach and convert Uber's highly engaged user base. As a Manager, Strategy & Planning, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the global strategy, operating model, and growth roadmap for one of Uber's fastest-growing businesses.

In this role, you won't just be driving strategy-you'll be leading a team. As a people manager, you will develop and coach a group of high-performing strategists and operators, empowering them to deliver impact across global initiatives while growing their careers at Uber.

You'll own and drive high-impact initiatives across global acquisition, advertiser growth, and retention, while working hand-in-hand with Product, GTM, Sales, Marketing, and Data Science to accelerate the future of Delivery Ads. You'll be expected to bring clarity to complexity, inspire your team, and influence senior stakeholders across regions and functions.

This is a highly cross-functional leadership role, ideal for a strategic operator who thrives in ambiguity, scales 0-to-1 programs, and motivates others to achieve outsized impact.

What You'll Do:

• Lead and Develop a Team: Manage, mentor, and grow a team of strategists/operators, fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and collaboration
• Shape Global Strategy: Define and lead business strategies that accelerate growth for Uber's Delivery Ads business, working closely with Product, Regional Ops, PMM, Sales, and Data Science
• Be a Thought Partner: Serve as a trusted advisor to Ads leadership and cross-functional executives, using structured thinking and data-driven insights to inform long-term strategy and near-term priorities
• Drive Advertiser Success: Identify opportunities to scale product adoption and advertiser ROI across segments (Enterprise, SMB) and regions by operationalizing GTM plays, incentives, measurement strategies, and enablement
• Operational Excellence: Build strategic frameworks and performance management tools to evaluate success, ensure accountability, and guide resourcing decisions
• Advocate for Merchants: Represent advertiser and merchant needs by synthesizing market trends, competitive signals, and customer insights to influence product and business roadmaps
• Scale What Works: Design repeatable global processes and toolkits that accelerate knowledge sharing and unlock growth at scale

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years' experience in Advertising, Strategy & Ops, Growth Marketing, GTM, Technology Operations or related fields
• 1+ year in a manager role, leading direct reports
• Proven track record of owning and delivering complex, cross-functional projects or programs with high business impact.
• Strong executive communication and storytelling skills with ability to influence stakeholders at all levels

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in retail media, ad tech, digital advertising, or related ecosystem
• Experience working in a global or matrixed organization
• Strong business judgment and structured problem-solving approach
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and lead through influence

For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$155,000 per year - USD$172,000 per year.

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$155,000 per year - USD$172,000 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.

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.

Client-provided location(s): San Francisco, CA, New York, NY

Job ID: Uber-148973

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-10-03T00:28:57