Global Senior Strategic Operations Manager, Uber Direct
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New York, NYexternalData and AnalyticsPosted 7 days ago (Aug 6, 2026)
About the Role
As a Global Strategic Operations Senior Manager on the Uber Direct Strategic Operations team, you'll lead global initiatives that improve merchant operations and power growth at scale. This role is responsible for turning operational challenges into structured strategies, aligning stakeholders across regions and functions, and delivering solutions that scale globally while meeting local needs.
Global Strategic Operations Managers are responsible for
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Guiding product prioritization and adoption
to ensure tech investments drive progress on our business strategy.
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Implementing scalable global strategies
by synthesizing regional efforts and aligning teams on unified frameworks that balance local needs with global priorities.
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Leading special projects
to solve emerging global challenges-owning everything from problem structuring and data analysis to strategy development, stakeholder alignment, and cross-functional implementation.
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Connecting market insights
across regions to spot patterns, share learnings, and help local teams adopt and scale solutions more effectively.
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Tracking and analyzing key operational KPIs
to identify trends and root causes, and proactively recommend and implement solutions.
In this role, you will focus on Merchant Operations, including
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Onboarding
Improve self-serve and enterprise flows to reduce time-to-first-trip and eliminate friction.
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Financial systems
Streamline how Uber gets paid by improving policies, products, and processes that drive strong on-time payment rates.
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Refunds
Optimize end-to-end resolution workflows-policies, tooling, and support decisioning-to reduce cost while improving refund speed and accuracy.
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Integration health
Ensure merchant integrations are reliable and optimized, reducing API errors and improving performance across cost and timeliness.
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Merchant enablement
Build scalable education, documentation, and guidance to ensure merchants use the product effectively.
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Merchant experience
Identify drivers of merchant sentiment and advocate for product and process improvements that increase NPS and retention.
Basic Qualifications
• 5-7 years of experience in strategy, operations, or analytics within high-growth or matrixed environments.
• Intermediate to advanced SQL, Excel/Google Sheets, and other BI tools to gather data, prepare reports, and develop dashboards.
Preferred Qualifications
• Proven ability to drive ambiguous, cross-functional projects from design through global implementation with measurable impact.
• Strong analytical skills and comfort working with data to discover and surface insights.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders across regions.
• Experience with merchant ecosystems, pricing/billing systems, or CRMs is a plus.
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For New York City, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $131,000 per year - USD $145,000 per year.
You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits.
Ready to Ride?
This isn't the kind of place where you follow a playbook - it's where you help write one. If you're driven by impact, energized by challenge, and ready to shape how the world moves - we'd love to hear from you.
You may be eligible for bonuses, equity, and other compensation, as well as a range of benefits. Explore our benefits.
Offices remain key to collaboration and Uber's culture. Unless approved for full remote work, employees must spend at least 50% of their time in-office. Some roles, like those at greenlight hubs, require full-time in-office presence. Ask your Recruiter for details about this role's requirements.
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.
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