Sr Manager, Workplace

About the Role
The Places Program Management Lead is a member of the Global Programs Team, reporting to the Head of Global Programs. This role is responsible for establishing and operating the end-to-end management system that connects Global Programs, Regional Portfolio Planning, Design & Construction, Workplace Operations, Finance, and other partners across Uber's global Places organization.
The role owns the enterprise governance, integrated planning, decision architecture, performance management, cross-functional dependencies, and executive decision-support mechanisms through which Places operates as one integrated service line.
The Program Manager enables functional and regional leaders to make coordinated, transparent, and timely decisions while maintaining clear accountability with the leaders and functions responsible for business outcomes. Regional leaders retain ownership of regional portfolio strategy and recommendations; functional leaders retain ownership of their programs and operations; and the Program Manager provides the management infrastructure connecting those activities across Places.
This role requires exceptional enterprise program leadership, executive problem-solving capability, operational rigor, strong business judgment, and the ability to influence senior leaders across a highly matrixed global organization.
What You'll Do
Own Places E2E governance, establishing the enterprise forums, operating cadences, decision pathways, escalation mechanisms, and accountability model across the service line.
Establish and operate an integrated Places planning cycle connecting Global Programs, Regional Portfolio Planning, Design & Construction, Workplace Operations, Finance, and other key partners.
Maintain an enterprise view of major Places programs, portfolio initiatives, capital projects, operational priorities, milestones, risks, dependencies, and decisions.
Establish and govern enterprise decision architecture, including approval workflows, decision thresholds, required inputs, decision documentation, escalation pathways, and decision records.
Facilitate cross-functional and cross-regional prioritization and trade-off discussions, ensuring leadership has clear visibility into resource, capital, capacity, timing, and delivery implications.
Own the Executive Reporting & Decision Support process for Places, establishing common reporting standards, metrics, templates, planning horizons, and decision framing across functions and regions.
Partner with the Head of Places, Regional Leads, and functional leaders to synthesize portfolio and program inputs into coherent enterprise-level reporting and decision materials while maintaining content and recommendation ownership with accountable leaders.
Establish service-line performance management, including integrated KPIs/CPIs, milestones, program health measures, risks, dependencies, and acc

Skills
Documentation