Sr Operations Manager - Cash Operations

Uber; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Equity

Benefits

In-office presence

Job summary

Uber is seeking a Lead of Cash Operations to join the Global Payment Operations team in Kraków. You will define and execute the cash payments strategy, focusing on collections methods and UX improvements across regions.

The role requires strong stakeholder management, data‑driven decision making, and the ability to lead cross‑functional initiatives with senior leaders. English proficiency is essential, with extra languages a plus.

Qualifications

• Stakeholder management to communicate strategies to senior leaders within multiple teams.
• Strong business acumen within the Payments and e‑commerce environment.
• Problem solving - tackle issues impacting people, processes and infrastructures using data.
• Root cause analysis and cross-functional task delegation desirable.
• Data-driven decisions with quantitative analysis required.
• Storytelling: translate data insights into action for business impact.
• 7+ years of work experience in strategy, operations, analytics, or related roles.
• Ability to adapt in a changing environment while driving analysis to conclusions.
• Excellent communication to high leadership and partners (technical and non‑technical).
• Exceptional English; additional languages preferred.
• Experience creating and optimizing processes.

Responsibilities

• Build the strategy to make cash payments a sustainable and frictionless method; leverage data to identify pain points and design cross‑functional initiatives.
• Build and enhance reporting tools to track key results; produce ad hoc analyses on cash payments and collaborate to optimize operations.
• Map existing processes and propose improvements; lead exploration and implementation of new solutions.
• Identify recurrent pain points and build business cases for product improvements.
• Take ownership of Cash payment operations and remove roadblocks to improve quality and value for users.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Business acumen

Problem solving

Data-driven decisions

Storytelling with data

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

English proficiency

Process optimization

Strategic thinking

Initiative

Leadership

Tools

SQL

Python

Job description

About The Role

Cash is a broadly adopted payment method around the world, in spite of the recent growth of digital ones. It is an important payment solution across multiple user segments, but mainly among unbanked and underbanked people. Cash's specific characteristics make its operation unique and it deserves special attention. The Cash Team is responsible for ensuring a healthy operation for cash payments and aims at optimizing processes and user experience in order to have the best value for all users.

About The Role

Cash is a broadly adopted payment method around the world, in spite of the recent growth of digital ones. It is an important payment solution across multiple user segments, but mainly among unbanked and underbanked people. Cash's specific characteristics make its operation unique and it deserves special attention. The Cash Team is responsible for ensuring a healthy operation for cash payments and aims at optimizing processes and user experience in order to have the best value for all users.

We are looking for a Lead of Cash Operations who will join the Global Payment Operations team. The Lead of Cash Operations will create and implement the strategy of cash payments focused on collections methods as well as features that enhance the cash UX across all lines of business. This is a meaningful role aimed at delivering optimization of processes with a customer-centric approach, prioritizing user engagement as well as profitability. The ideal candidate would require a combination of stakeholder management, strategic thinking, problem solving, quantitative analysis, and interpersonal skills to work with cross-functional teams across different territories and to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders.

What You'll Do

• Build the strategy to make payments in cash a sustainable and frictionless payment method at Uber. Leverage data to identify main pain points and design a set of initiatives to be executed in collaboration with cross-functional -local, regional and global- teams
• Build and/or enhance reporting tools to track down key results. Produce ad hoc analysis to deep dive on specific topics related to cash payments Design and implement processes with the objective of ensuring a frictionless operation of cash payments - Collaborate with regional and local teams in diverse initiatives related to enable and/or optimizing cash operations
• Map existing processes and identify areas of improvement. Take the lead on proposing new solutions, experimenting, iterating and implementing them
• Product Improvement - Identify recurrent pain points and consolidate information accordingly for building a business case for product improvements
• Be owner - Take ownership of Cash payment operations and do everything you need to support and enhance the quality of the operation and the value offered to users. We expect you to be proactive and resourceful in order to remove roadblocks and find creative solutions.

What You'll Need

• Stakeholder management to communicate strategies to senior leaders within multiple teams with the objectives of driving collaborative efforts across teams
• Strong business acumen within the Payments and e-commerce environment.
• Problem solving - Being able to tackle issues that have an impact on people, processes, and infrastructures by using logic, common sense and data.
• Identifying the root cause of a problem as opposed to focusing on the symptoms. Delegating tasks and managing projects involving cross functional teams is desirable.
• Ability to make data driven decisions and strategize with a clear action plan to solve complex problems in which business data is involved. Proven experience with quantitative data analysis required.
• Experience with storytelling: translating data insights into business intelligence with a course of action
• 7+ years of work experience in strategy, operations, analytics, business development, or a variety of other specialty roles with demonstrated ability in quantitative fields
• Ability to take initiative in a constantly-changing work environment while maintaining flexibility and a collaborative attitude and to drive analysis and get into conclusions
• Experienced communication skills that will allow you to clearly explain and justify your decision making to high leadership and to our partners (technical and non technical backgrounds)
• Exceptional communication skills in English. Alternative languages are highly preferred.
• Experience creating and optimizing processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience with SQL and/or Python

Ready to Ride?

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