Lead Product Manager for Uber's Safety Media Product Team

About the Role At Uber, “Stand for Safety” is a core value and central to our mission of reimagining how the world moves. The Safety Product team builds innovative technologies that enhance safety for riders, drivers, couriers, and the communities we serve. As a Lead Product Manager for the Safety Media team, you will lead our mission to build recording products that can bring additional peace of mind to every ride. You’ll be responsible for delivering scalable, user-friendly solutions that see broad adoption across our platform. In this role, you will drive the next-gen of on-device recording tech, building reliable video & audio capture that works across diverse devices & conditions. Your work will operate at a massive scale, supporting recording for millions of trips every day across thousands of device types in over 70+ countries, giving riders and drivers added protection. This role requires a strong technical background, exceptional leadership skills, and a passion for driving innovation in the safety space. What the Candidate Will Do You will partner with leads from Engineering, Data Science, Operations, Design, and Support to establish a bold vision and execute on it in a way that balances speed, technical depth, engineering considerations and quality. You will combine technical expertise with strong product sense, diving deep into technical and analytical challenges yourself, while obsessing over user experience & find novel solutions. You will work side by side with engineers & design to prototype new device media capabilities, test them in real-world scenarios, and iterate quickly to validate technical feasibility & user value. You will need to be an inspirational leader for your team and cross-functional stakeholders. Internalize and deeply understand Uber’s mission and strategies, as well as the mission and objectives of your team. Formulate a long and short-term product strategy to develop breakthrough products and solutions based on deep customer insights, and business needs. Galvanize technical and business stakeholders across the company to align to your vision. Lead other leaders without authority. Understand the differences in priorities across the business and across different local regions is essential. You will work with our regional teams to understand issues on the ground and make those solutions a part of your roadmap. Partner with User Experience Research, Operations, and Support teams to seek insights on user problems and evangelize those problems, along with your proposed solutions, across Uber. Work with our regional teams to understand issues on the ground and make those solutions a part of their roadmap. Develop positive partnerships and make strategic trade-offs advised by data. Collaborate and partner with engineering/business to develop a clear roadmap and drive execution across the organization. Work with researchers to conduct a program of quantitative and qualitative insight gathering and evaluation. Anticipate and remove obstacles that slow down or prevent us from delivering on product objectives. Effectively present and communicate product strategy, implementation, and plans to various communities ranging from your immediate team to business audiences, external partners, and executive leadership. Build and cultivate a strong team culture with a focus on execution and results. Be a highly effective collaborator and a magnet that cross-functional partners seek out for input and look forward to working with. Basic Qualifications Product Experience: Minimum 5+ years of product management experience delivering highly successful and innovative products with your fingerprints all over them -- and you're deeply proud of what you've accomplished. Bachelor degree or equivalent. Technically proficient - You have collaborated with engineers in developing sophisticated technical architecture as part of the products you have built. You understand the right questions to pose and the right proposals to bring forward in a highly technical context, in order to optimize the team’s direction to maximize utility to the user and value to the business. Vision - You have crafted an inspiring and coherent product vision, multi-year strategy, and quarterly roadmap that your team and the business emphatically accepted and rallied behind. Product Sense - Stellar design instincts, sharp analytical skills, and thoughtful product decisions. A high bar across the board — from your own contributions to the people you work with to the products you work on. You own what you build. Experience leading product managers and product management teams. Leadership Experience: Prior experience setting and delivering on a strategy you crafted, where you were accountable for the outcomes. A “Driver” mentality. You are biased toward action, a great collaborator, a master disambiguate/simplifier, and constantly pushing toward clarity and delivery. Grittiness. You never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and solve something hands-on. Preferred Qualifications Experience working directly on Video, Recording, or Media-focused products and platforms within an engineering and product management context. Experience working within a highly matrixed organization including collaborators across Product, Eng, Business Ops, Public Policy, and more. Experience running sophisticated experiments to assess the efficiency of releases. Experience identifying risk trends and finding efficient ways to address them. Strong technical fluency in areas like mobile platforms (iOS/Android), device reliability constraints (storage, battery, bandwidth), or security/privacy tradeoffs that come with handling sensitive media. Track record of pairing technical depth with strong product sense, turning complex engineering capabilities into simple, trusted, and widely adopted user experiences. For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$216,000 per year - USD$240,000 per year. For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$216,000 per year - USD$240,000 per year. For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$216,000 per year - USD$240,000 per year. For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$216,000 per year - USD$240,000 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 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. 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