About the Role
Uber Freight connects shippers with truckers, much like how Uber connects riders and drivers. We are a team of entrepreneurial individuals who are redefining the movement of things around the world. On the Uber Freight team, we fiercely believe that our dedication to transportation technologies will bring more harmonious, highly efficient, and increasingly safer transportation logistics to our roads.
Our AI Execution team - is leveraging the best of AI technology to ensure smooth & predictable delivery of shipments for our customers. Logistics is a complex problem, where minutes and timing means millions for our customers. This team delivers AI first solutions to deliver real-world impact for tens of billions in freight each year.
As the AI Scheduling & Facility Product Manager, you’ll own facility data and scheduling for our shippers and carriers. You will go beyond the success of each shipment to drive network impact. You will architect the future of mult-modal scheduling - going beyond rules to deliver dynamic AI & ML systems that meet fleet and driver constraints, and nuanced requirements for all modes of transportation. You will build predictive solutions for the scheduling of today - think anticipating delays - and the foundation for scheduling of the near future - think autonomous fleets.
What the candidate will do
- Product Vision and Strategy: Define a clear product vision and strategy for the team, identifying both short-term and long-term initiatives to create an effective product roadmap.
- User-Centric Approach: Translate user needs into product requirements by deeply understanding user problems and business opportunities - formulating hypotheses, and articulating desired outcomes
- Quality & Velocity: Leverage AI throughout research, prototyping & build to deliver high-quality product experiences.
- Communication: Effectively communicate product plans, tradeoffs, and results to a diverse audience, including internal partner teams, 3rd party partners, executives, end-users, and external customers
- Innovation: Lead the discovery, development, and adoption of innovative features and experiences improve outcomes for Uber Freight, our customers, and external partners
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership: Collaborate with a strong team of engineers, designers, data scientists, and user researchers, setting clear team deliverables, defining the roadmap, and driving execution.
- Cultivate Team Culture: Build and nurture a strong team culture centered around collaboration, execution, and delivering results.
How the candidate will make immediate impact
- Define and execute strategies for Uber Freight’s facility and scheduling products for all customer segments.
- Develop our data insights across facilities driving our unique value proposition.
- Build optimizations for individual shipments and beyond making scheduling a differentiator for Uber Freight’s carrier and shipper network
- Analyze market trends, competitor offerings, and monitor internal metrics to inform product decisions.
- Obsess in the data and details of defects identified by users, operations teams, and intuition.
- Ensure the higher ROI opportunities are prioritized, delivered iteratively, and evaluated regularly.
- Uphold consistent communications with executive leaders to enforce growth strategy and impact quantification.
Basic Qualifications
- Minimum of 3+ years of Product Management experience developing and deploying world-class products that scale
- Data-first approach to problem solving (know how to leverage SQL and AI research strategies to pull your own data and insights)
- You aren’t just an executor; you advocate for the right problems.
- You take problems as opportunities; you lead through rallying, influence, and
- You are well-versed in reinforcement learning; you have developed optimizations (ML models) or AI solutions
Preferred Qualifications
- You have developed in the logistics industry or similar marketplace environments (think travel marketplace, booking)
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Comfortability with presenting to, recommending changes, and pushing back on executive stakeholders.
Benefits & Compensation for U.S. Employees
Employees working more than 30 hours in the US at Uber Freight are eligible for benefits like a company sponsored health plan, dental and vision benefits, 401k match, financial and mental wellness benefits, parental leave, short- and long-term disability coverage, life insurance and more. US based employees may also be eligible for a performance or sales incentive bonus program, participation in Uber Freight equity awards, and other types of compensation depending upon the role.
About Uber Freight
Uber Freight helps companies move goods more reliably and efficiently. We bring together the technology, people, and transportation capacity they need, using real‑time data from millions of shipments to guide smarter decisions. That helps customers spot issues early, avoid costly surprises, and deliver on time. Uber Freight works with 1 in 3 Fortune 500 shippers across North America and manages over $17B in freight. Learn more at www.uberfreight.com.
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EEOC
Uber Freight is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards 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.