About the Role
We're looking for a hands-on Design Manager to lead our Financial Products Design team. You'll work with an international team based in our new office in São Paulo, Uber's first Tech Center in LATAM.
Our Design teams are focused not just on functionality, but also on creating joy and delight. Our work ignites opportunity and changes the way the world moves and we design for users from all backgrounds and abilities around the world.
As a Design Manager and Lead, you will be responsible for leading large-scale strategic initiatives and managing a small team of other Designers working on Financial Products. We collaborate with some of the world's best engineers, product managers, content designers, designers and researchers.
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---- What the Candidate Will Do ----
- Be a strong partner to your Product, Engineering, Research, Data, and Business peers
- 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
- Hire, coach, and mentor designers as the team grows
- Encourage your team to push the boundaries towards innovation and user delight, while balancing business objectives
- Align team priorities and deliverables to the company's overall strategic goals
- Influence product, shape strategy and direction for big company bets
- Break down large ambiguous problems into simple solutions and drive them from concept through completion.
- Drive standard methodologies in overall experiences and product design
- Be the voice of the customer and champion solving user problems
- Help designers develop a wide array of hard and soft skills based on their career goals and what the team needs
- You should feel comfortable changing elevations quickly, from high-level critical thinking to evaluating research, interaction, and design execution.
- Think systematically, to make experiences as scalable as they are elegant and delightful
---- Basic Qualifications ----
- 5+ years of Product Design experience
- 2+ years of Management experience
- Proficiency with the latest tools to build design and a strong desire to learn new ones.
- Figma expertise is strongly preferred
---- Preferred Qualifications ----
- Experience working and collaborating in a tech environment
- Experience working with Payments, Financial Products, or other highly regulated industries
- Demonstrates long-term thinking around strategic and business-focused activities
- Will have shipped many successful software products, ideally both desktop and mobile
- Extensive experience conducting and/or collaborating with user research and data science to leverage their respective insights
- Has led and mentored both junior and senior product designers
- Proven track record of providing thought leadership and guiding a team towards a common goal
- Excellent communication and analytical skills
- Experience leading geographically distributed teams is a plus
We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let's move the world forward, together.
Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.
*Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@uber.com.