Principal Product Manager - AI & Efficiency

Schedule: Full Time • Job Type: Hybrid • Salary Type: Salary • Req #: 3067

About the role

Uber Freight connects shippers with truckers, much like how Uber connects riders and drivers. The team is entrepreneurial and focused on redefining the movement of goods worldwide. As the AI & Optimization Product Manager, you will leverage AI technology to ensure smooth and predictable delivery of shipments for customers. The role involves building AI‑first solutions with real‑world impact for tens of billions in freight each year, ranging from AI platforms that support hundreds of use cases to AI‑native operational efficiency tools and customer insight products.

Responsibilities

• Product Vision and Strategy: Define a clear product vision and strategy, identifying short‑term and long‑term initiatives to create an effective product roadmap.
• User‑Centric Approach: Translate user needs into product requirements by deeply understanding user problems and business opportunities, formulating hypotheses, and articulating desired outcomes.
• Quality & Velocity: Leverage AI throughout research, prototyping, and build to deliver high‑quality product experiences.
• Communication: Effectively communicate product plans, trade‑offs, and results to internal partner teams, third‑party partners, executives, end‑users, and external customers.
• Innovation: Lead discovery, development, and adoption of innovative features and experiences that improve outcomes for Uber Freight, its customers, and external partners.
• Cross‑Functional Team Leadership: Collaborate with engineers, designers, data scientists, and user researchers, setting clear deliverables, defining the roadmap, and driving execution.
• Cultivate Team Culture: Build and nurture a strong team culture centered around collaboration, execution, and delivering results.

Basic qualifications

• Minimum of 6+ years of Product Management experience developing and deploying world‑class products that scale.
• Data‑first approach to problem solving.
• Ability to execute while advocating for solving the right problems.
• Proactive problem‑solving mindset; leads through rallying and influence.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience leveraging SQL and AI research strategies to extract data and insights.
• Well‑versed in reinforcement learning; developed and deployed ML optimization models or AI solutions in production.
• Built and scaled AI/ML platforms that support multiple downstream use cases across teams.
• Shipped production products leveraging large language models (LLMs) and modern reasoning models.
• Experience in the logistics industry or similar marketplace environments (e.g., travel marketplace, booking).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; comfortable presenting to, recommending changes, and pushing back on executive stakeholders.

Benefits & Compensation

U.S. employees working more than 30 hours per week are eligible for a company‑sponsored health plan, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) match, financial and mental‑wellness benefits, parental leave, short‑ and long‑term disability coverage, life insurance, and more. Eligible employees may also receive performance or sales incentive bonuses, participation in Uber Freight equity awards, and other compensation depending on the role.