Strategic Initiatives Leader
hace 1 semana
About the Role
The Strategic Initiatives team at Uber drives innovation in the region by identifying, building, and incubating new business bets. As a member of this team, you will lead and own the end-to-end process to bring new business ideas to life, as well as special projects that span beyond core operations.
You will play different roles through various stages of our initiatives, ranging from venture capital investment professional to entrepreneur and CEO of new ventures. You will need to come with and further develop a broad range of skills, including analytical and critical thinking, sales and marketing, process and operations building and execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Source new business opportunities by conducting market research, competitive benchmarking, trends analysis, connecting with multiple Uber teams across the world, running ideation workshops and brainstorming sessions with the LatAm cross-functional leadership team, and crowdsourcing ideas from the entire LatAm organization.
- Screen ideas based on their impact potential, complexity, technical feasibility, and alignment with Uber's assets, capabilities, and customer base.
- Conduct deep dives into high-potential ideas, researching to enrich understanding of opportunities to accurately prioritize and fund them for execution.
- Design and set up minimum viable products using existing tech and capabilities in collaboration with cross-functional teams, including Ops, Payments, Tax, Legal, Product, Comm Ops, BD, Marketing, Comms, Finance, Strategic Sourcing, and more.
- Run pilots to prove concepts, pitching projects to internal and external partners, and pivoting and adjusting as needed.
- Analyze pilot data and results through deep quantitative and qualitative analysis.
- Present results and recommendations to the leadership team to drive decisions around continuing, stopping, or expanding projects.
- Articulate arguments to scale successful innovations and lead expansion efforts.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in consulting, investment banking, private equity, venture capital, strategy, operations, product/project management, or entrepreneurial experience (ideally some combination of them).
- Strong Spanish and English proficiency.
- Ability to interpret and communicate data to senior audiences.
- Capacity to articulate sound and robust storylines.
- Able to balance analytical thinking, logic, quality, executional excellence, and attention to detail with action orientation to keep things moving forward.
- Strong sense of ownership and deep appetite for impact.
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