Director, Engineering - Inspire

About the Role

The Inspire engineering team, part of the Delivery+ organization, is looking for a Director to lead a set of talented and diverse teams responsible for consumer experiences powering the inspiration & discovery journey in the Uber Eats and Postmates apps.

Spanning both exploration - home feed, category feeds, global search, in-store search, & more - as well as content creation - including store & productreviews, product photos, and dish videos - these teams are inspiring Uber's customers across the globe to discover what makes their neighborhoods & cities unique.

What You'll Do

- Build the long term vision and provide technical leadership, while influencing and partnering with your team to architect, design and build consumer focused products that can stand the test of scale and availability, while reducing operational overhead
- Strategize and collaborate closely with Design, Product, Data Science and Engineering teams throughout the company to drive and shape the technical direction, product vision and roadmap
- Balance the team's portfolio across incremental improvements and risky, bold bets which open up new, exciting opportunities to delight our customers & re-shape the Delivery business
- Build a strong engineering brand for Inspire and attract, mentor and develop the talent in the team
- Build trust and foster a collaborative team culture and help grow the respective leaders on the team
- Have an excellent executive presence to communicate the team's vision/plan effectively and represent the Inspire engineering organization and POV in the overall Delivery+ group
- Build an influential culture of engineering excellence maintaining the balance and right tradeoff for building products for speed and tech debt
- Develop an operational model to achieve operational excellence for Product metrics and Engineering metrics

What You'll Need

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- A minimum of 10 years proven experience building software across the stack (mobile, platform, data pipelining and ML) and significant experience working on user experiences and distributed systems for consumer-facing products
- Proven experience in designing, building, and managing large-scale realtime systems with high availability to support millions of users and/or high call volume.
- A minimum of 7 years of management experience leading software engineering teams
- Previous experience leading engineering and cross-functional teams shaping the experience and strategy of global consumer products
- Obsession with the finer details of UX & UI design and engineering, as well as the craft of creating a cutting-edge consumer product
- Bonus points for previous experience in Search, Discovery, or Social domains

For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$284,000 per year - USD$315,500 per year.

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$284,000 per year - USD$315,500 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 [](;br>
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