Design Manager - Rider

Uber Rides Studio is seeking a Design Manager to lead a global team of highly talented designers across our Rider applications and services and work with cross-functional partners to prioritize work and help evolve the long term vision across the Rider domain. Beneath our apps is an internationally diverse world of cities, transportation logistics, market making, and interactions among drivers, riders, and businesses.

About The Role

Uber Design Studio in India is seeking a Design Manager to lead a group of designers supporting our Rider initiatives across geographies ranging from a highly efficient growth team to a verticals team building new initiatives for Egypt, Europe, India and the United states. Beneath our apps is an internationally diverse world of cities, transportation logistics, market making, and interactions among spenders and earners.

You will focus your time and effort on building elegant and refined product experiences, turning early concepts into inspiring visions building collaborative cross-functional partnerships and contributing to an excellent design culture.

What You'll Do

You'll collaborate with design leads and cross-functional partners to help craft the vision and strategies behind some of the most important and exciting initiatives in the company.
• Set the bar high by knowing what quality looks like and how to help product teams ship at that quality with minimal impact on velocity.
• Drive standard methodologies in overall experiences and product design -- way beyond the visual.
• Help designers and researchers become the collaborative glue that encourages product management and engineering while also developing their strengths at envisioning what could be.
• You will be working with the design team, who will be remote now but mainly located across India, helping them deliver inquisitive products and grow as creative professionals.
• You should feel comfortable changing elevations quickly, from high-level critical thinking to evaluating research, interaction, and visual design execution.

Basic Qualifications
• 7+ years of product design experience
• 2+ years of management experience

Preferred Qualifications
• Demonstrate long term thinking around strategic and business-focused activities
• Will have shipped many successful software products with significant impact on the user experience and business.
• Extensive experience conducting and/or collaborating with user research and data science to leverage their respective insights
• Will have managed and mentored both junior and more senior product designers
• Proven track record to provide thought leadership and guide a team towards achieving a common goal
• Excellent communication and analytical skills
• Experience leading geographically distributed teams a plus
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