Director, Engineering - Marketplace

Director, Engineering - Marketplace Department: Engineering Team: Engineering Location: San Francisco, United States Type: Full-Time **About the Team** Uber’s Engineering team executes on the vision and builds the products for the future of urban mobility: deeply understanding our customers to solve their transportation needs with innovative technology. Engineering leaders at Uber move lightning fast to build, test, learn, and iterate, working in small teams that control their own destiny and own their own critical metrics. Leadership helps the vision become a reality and clears obstacles out of the way. Some of the brightest data scientists, designers, engineers, and marketers in the industry are here to build amazing products on top of leading-edge platforms for data, machine learning, and experimentation. The products we build are used by millions of riders, drivers, eaters, restaurants, merchants and others to earn money for their families, and get around faster, easier, cheaper, and with less environmental impact. **About the Role** The Marketplace team is looking for a Director of Engineering to lead a talented team of 40 engineers and applied scientists based in the San Francisco Bay Area.  The team builds the tech and systems that span ML modeling, and optimization for driver pricing. **What You’ll Do** - Lead the team responsible for driver pricing & matching.  The role spans backend systems for pricing, offer generation, offer payments, ML models and algorithms, as well as the mobile/front-end surfaces for driver comprehension - Build the long term vision and tech for driver pricing - Collaborate closely with Data Science, Products, and Ops to drive and shape the technical direction, both in terms of systems and modeling frameworks - Strategize and influence the product vision and roadmap in collaboration with the product and business team - Build trust and foster a collaborative team culture and help grow the respective leaders in each of the focus areas - Build a strong eng brand for driver pricing and be able to attract and retain talent - Have an excellent executive presence t