Lead Product Manager - Chicago - Uber Freight

Description

Overview

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.

Schedule: Full Time Employment
Job Type: Hybrid
Salary Type: Salary
Req #: 2230

Uber Freight Fintech sits at the center of how money moves through our system. This covers carrier/partner payments, invoicing, settlement, credit, collections, accounting and internal and external stakeholder financial experiences that build trust in our marketplace and SaaS/service products. We're looking for a data-minded, entrepreneurial Product Manager who thrives in ambiguity and loves building platforms and customer experiences that drive measurable customer and business value.

As a Fintech Lead Product Manager, you'll define and deliver critical Fintech capabilities with clear value propositions across shipper, carrier and internal customer experiences. This includes creating seamless end-to-end flows from rate automation during booking of a load, to all parties getting paid all the while guarding against fraudulent actors and keeping UF's key Financial systems secure. You will partner with engineers building at scale, product designers, data scientists, risk/compliance partners, and operations teams to shape the future of financial products in logistics.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Communication: Effectively communicate product plans, tradeoffs, and results to a diverse audience, including internal partner teams, executives, end-users, and external customers
• Innovation: Lead the discovery, development, and adoption of innovative features and experiences improve outcomes for Uber Freight and out customers and 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

Immediate Impact

• Define and execute strategies for Uber Freight's Fintech products, balancing short term needs with prudent platform investments
• Deeply understand shipper and carrier financial workflows (e.g., billing preferences, payment terms, proof-of-delivery, chargebacks/disputes, payout speed) and build innovative and AI based financial products that unlock efficiency
• 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 by collaborating with engineering, design
• Uphold consistent communications with executive leaders to enforce growth strategy and impact quantification

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years of Product Management experience developing and deploying world-class products that scale
• Passion for Uber Freight's mission and the company's hybrid technology & operations nature
• Strong curiosity for Fintech and AI advancements in the logistics industry
• Strong customer empathy, and the ability to blend user research with data to create a prioritised product roadmap
• Data-first approach to problem solving (know how to use SQL to pull all data from a known data source table)
• Basic understanding of economics and supply vs demand
• Basic understanding of accounting and Financial ERP systems

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of Product Management experience building B2B products ideally in the Financial domain
• Strong analytical skills and experience with data analysis and experimentation
• Proven ability to translate data into actionable insights and strategic recommendations
• 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

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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.

For Illinois-based roles: The salary range for this role is $152, $186,000.00 per year