Staff Technical Program Manager, AV Labs

Staff Technical Program Manager, AV Labs Department: Engineering Team: Technical Program Manager Location: Sunnyvale, United States Type: Full-Time **About the Role** Join Uber as a Staff Technical Program Manager to help spearhead AV Labs, a newly formed, high-velocity team of multidisciplinary experts tasked with building the foundational capabilities for our next chapter in AV. In this Staff-level role, you will lead the overarching technical program strategy to leverage our massive distribution and data infrastructure advantage. You will partner with senior engineering leaders across ML, computer vision, data systems, and infrastructure to define multi-year roadmaps and navigate extreme ambiguity. Your work will go beyond complex project execution; you will pioneer the shared technical foundations that accelerate our AV partners, inform critical strategy and investment decisions with technical depth, and ensure Uber retains the foundational expertise to move faster as the space evolves. **What the Candidate Will Do:** 1. Define Multi-Year Strategy: Define the overarching technical program strategy and multi-year roadmaps for AV Labs. Partner with senior leadership across ML, infrastructure, and operations to navigate extreme ambiguity in the rapidly evolving autonomy landscape. 2. Pioneer Execution at Scale: Drive the inception and execution of zero-to-one L4 data platforms. Oversee execution excellence across the entire AV Labs portfolio, anticipating systemic bottlenecks and untangling highly complex cross-company dependencies. 3. Shape Architecture and Decisions: Leverage deep technical expertise in massive-scale data systems and end-to-end modeling to influence system architecture, resolve deep technical disagreements among principal engineers, and inform critical investment decisions. 4. Drive Executive Alignment: Lead without formal authority by heavily influencing executive leaders and stakeholders. Champion effective communication by routinely presenting technical strategies, program statuses, and investment recommendations in large, senior-level forums with clarity and impact. 5. Elevate the TPM