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At Uber, reliability is critical - and when outages or severe product issues occur, how we coordinate customer support responses directly impacts customer trust. The Community Operations Outage Program Lead owns Uber’s global customer support coordination capability during outages and high-severity incidents. This role is responsible for ensuring that when issues impact customers our 24x7 Ops Commander team detects outages early, mobilizes the right stakeholders, activates clear guidance for support teams, and maintains structured coordination of organization through recovery. You will lead the strategy and evolution of this capability - expanding the process and operating model covering both outages and critical outages, defining performance standards, strengthening detection maturity, improving stakeholder engagement precision, and driving tech to increase speed and accuracy.
Job Responsibility:
Lead the development of the vision and support strategy for outage management and severe incident management within the Community Operations org
Establish governance, decision rights, and success metrics that drive consistent execution across line of business
Develop further and run the Outage + Critical Outage frameworks
Design and continuously improve the processes, playbooks, and escalation/routing standards for both standard outages and critical outages
Create risk- and scenario-based preparedness working with global functional leads
Define the CommOps “source of truth” for impact sizing and operational reporting during outages and remediations phases
Lead and Develop the Ops Commander Function
Strengthen Early Detection and Incident Readiness
Drive Technology Strategy
Lead CommOps coordination during live Critical Outages
Requirements:
6+ years of experience in program management, incident management, customer operations or large-scale cross-functional environments
3+ years of experience leading teams
Bachelors Degree Obtained
Experience working in high-severity or crisis / incident / outage environments requiring structured decision-making under pressure
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience delivering executive-level updates
Ability to drive consensus and actionable results across highly cross-functional teams
Experience in large-scale customer support or global operations environments
Experience in designing and implementing support processes, or AI-enabled operational solutions
Data-driven mentality and strong business judgment
Track record of balancing analytical strategic thinking with quick decision-making, change management, and timely execution
Experience working with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment
ITIL or equivalent service management certification
Program Management experience or equivalent
Nice to have:
Experience working in high-severity or crisis / incident / outage environments requiring structured decision-making under pressure
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience delivering executive-level updates
Ability to drive consensus and actionable results across highly cross-functional teams
Experience in large-scale customer support or global operations environments
Experience in designing and implementing support processes, or AI-enabled operational solutions
Data-driven mentality and strong business judgment
Track record of balancing analytical strategic thinking with quick decision-making, change management, and timely execution
Experience working with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment
ITIL or equivalent service management certification
Program Management experience or equivalent
What we offer:
Eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program
May be offered an equity award & other types of comp
All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan