Director, Engineering - Inspire

Director, Engineering - Inspire Department: Engineering Team: Engineering Location: New York, United States Type: Full-Time **About the Role** The Inspire engineering team, part of the Delivery+ organization, is looking for a Director to lead a set of talented and diverse teams responsible for consumer experiences powering the inspiration & discovery journey in the Uber Eats and Postmates apps. Spanning both exploration — home feed, category feeds, global search, in-store search, & more — as well as content creation — including store & product reviews, product photos, and dish videos  — these teams are inspiring Uber’s customers across the globe to discover what makes their neighborhoods & cities unique. **What You’ll Do** - Build the long term vision and provide technical leadership, while influencing and partnering with your team to architect, design and build consumer focused products that can stand the test of scale and availability, while reducing operational overhead - Strategize and collaborate closely with Design, Product, Data Science and Engineering teams throughout the company to drive and shape the technical direction, product vision and roadmap - Balance the team’s portfolio across incremental improvements and risky, bold bets which open up new, exciting opportunities to delight our customers & re-shape the Delivery business - Build a strong engineering brand for Inspire and attract, mentor and develop the talent in the team - Build trust and foster a collaborative team culture and help grow the respective leaders on the team - Have an excellent executive presence to communicate the team’s vision/plan effectively and represent the Inspire engineering organization and POV in the overall Delivery+ group - Build an influential culture of engineering excellence maintaining the balance and right tradeoff for building products for speed and tech debt - Develop an operational model to achieve operational excellence for Product metrics and Engineering metrics **What You’ll Need** - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience - A minimum of 10 years proven experience building so