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Looks like Uber, an app for hiring private car drivers, wants to come to Baltimore

October 17, 2012

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

  • Work with Uber’s Launch and DC team to launch and manage Uber Baltimore
  • You’ll be spending 80% of your time in DC and 20% of your time in Baltimore and playing with the right ratio to keep the city running
  • Manage capacity and quality of supply chain (i.e. Uber’s driver partners), including sourcing, training, review and communication while testing various models to help set Uber’s remote strategy
  • On Board and train drivers and experiment with new ways to do so with minimal physical presence
  • Manage local regulatory concerns and local politics
  • Communicate product/process needs to HQ, work with product/engineering to deliver on them
  • Initiate creative local marketing strategies and user growth campaigns, experimenting with how to spur growth and sustain supply with limited time on the ground
  • Continue to grow REVENUES and RIDERSHIP!!!
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW/HAVE:
  • 3-5 years of operations management experience (not quite there? Apply for Community Support Manager or Operations & Logistics Manager instead!)
  • Data-driven decision mentality and sound business judgment through strong analytical thinking
  • Experience managing and growing remote markets
  • Experience owning marketing campaigns to raise brand awareness in remote markets
  • Hustler- You have no problem getting your hands dirty and doing the gritty work that comes along with the higher-level thinking
  • Creative solutions driven mindset, with a get shit done attitude
  • Excel-master
  • High Emotional IQ – Can deal with drivers, influencers and clients no problem
  • Stellar networking skills and the ability to make smart partnerships happen
  • Flexible and forward thinking- We need someone sharp and eager to play with different models to help us scale
  • Entrepreneurial DNA and fear tolerance of a honey-badger
  • Baltimore knowledge/background a plus (not req’d)
PERKS:
  • Travel like a European diplomat: employees are showered with Uber credits
  • Ground floor opportunity: shape the strategic direction of the company
  • Make a difference: we’re not just another social web app: we’re moving real people/assets and changing transportation for the future
  • We have access to an amazing list of advisors and investors that we actively engage

COMPENSATION:
Full-time salary negotiable based on experience, and equity compensation plan.

 

 

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