Senior Risk Operations Manager

Uber; Şile; Hybrid; TRY 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Equity

In-office collaboration

Job summary

Uber is seeking a Senior Regional Operations Manager to assess, manage, and minimize fraud and marketplace risk across EMEA. This critical role spans multiple Lines of Business and partners with Risk teams, engineering, product, and data science to protect the Uber platform.

You will design risk frameworks, implement automation, and analyze fraud metrics with SQL or Python to reduce losses while preserving a high‑quality user experience.

Qualifications

• Experience with SQL and at least one scripting language (Python or R).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven approach.
• 5+ years in Risk, Online Retailers, startup, strategy, operations, analytics or related roles.

Responsibilities

• Reduce fraud and risk across the Uber system in EMEA.
• Develop and implement risk-mitigation processes and frameworks.
• Analyze databases using SQL or Python to detect fraud.
• Prioritize projects and set achievable timelines.
• Evaluate risk potential of new product features for rollout.

Skills

SQL

Python

R

Education

MBA

Bachelor's degree in engineering/math/finance/economics/physics

Job description

We are looking for a Senior Regional Operations Manager who will be assessing, managing and minimizing fraud (both financial fraud and marketplace risk) in EMEA. This is a critical role for the business, it offers the opportunity to manage fraud across Lines of Business (LOB). 1. It's an operations-driven role that calls for a combination of data analytic skills with creative problem solving, detail oriented responsibility, and interpersonal ability to nurture and guide teams to take fraud management to the next level. 2. This is a challenging role in a high-growth environment; this person will work together with the Risk teams in EMEA countries, with headquarters-based engineering, product, and data science teams. This role will contribute enormously to the sustainable growth of the Uber business. ~~ ~~ ~~

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Regional Operations Manager who will be assessing, managing and minimizing fraud (both financial fraud and marketplace risk) in EMEA.

This is a critical role for the business, it offers the opportunity to manage fraud across Lines of Business (LOB).

• It's an operations-driven role that calls for a combination of data analytic skills with creative problem solving, detail oriented responsibility, and interpersonal ability to nurture and guide teams to take fraud management to the next level.
• This is a challenging role in a high-growth environment; this person will work together with the Risk teams in EMEA countries, with headquarters-based engineering, product, and data science teams. This role will contribute enormously to the sustainable growth of the Uber business.

What You'll Do

• Focus: The main issues will be to reduce Financial Fraud, Chargebacks, Cash Arrears, Refunds and Appeasements, Promo Abuse, Did Not Settle…
• Develop & Optimize Processes - Develop and implement new risk mitigation solutions and frameworks that improve our ability to detect, measure and intervene against fraudulent activity, including better operational processes, automated systems and upstream design solutioning.
• Analytics - Analysis of databases using SQL or Python to review earner, spender and merchant fraud related metrics to properly detect fraud and ensure high-quality experiences on the Uber system.
• Strategy - Choose which projects the team should prioritize, and set a timeline to reach goals quickly.
• Product Improvement - Evaluate risk potential of new product features or business lines and inform decision-making at the design and roll-out stages.

What You'll Have

• Experience with SQL and/or development experience in one scripting language (ideally Python, but R is also considered).
• Problem solving - Being able to solve issues that involve people and processes by using logic, common sense and data. Identifying the root cause of a problem as opposed to focusing on the symptoms.
• 5+ years of high performing work experience in Risk, Online Retailers, startup, strategy, operations, analytics, business development, or a variety of other specialty roles with demonstrated ability in quantitative fields.

Preferred Qualifications

• Quantitative data analysis, deep actionable insights, modelling, and advanced test plan design and analysis experience.
• Ability to take initiative in a constantly-changing work environment while maintaining flexibility and a collaborative attitude and to drive analysis, get into conclusions and be able to present them to different Stakeholders.
• Capacity of understanding business decisions implications and their effects on the financials, particularly regarding risk / fraud topics.
• Good communication skills that will allow you to clearly explain your work and to participate in constructive debate.
• Stakeholder management.
• Experience in creating and optimizing processes.
• MBA graduate or quantitative Bachelor's degree (engineering, mathematics, finance, economics, physics, etc.).

Ready to Ride?

This isn't the kind of place where you follow a playbook — it's where you help write one. If you're driven by impact, energized by challenge, and ready to shape how the world moves — we'd love to hear from you.

You may be eligible for bonuses, equity, and other compensation, as well as a range of benefits. Explore our benefits.

Offices remain key to collaboration and Uber's culture. Unless approved for full remote work, employees must spend at least 50% of their time in-office. Some roles, like those at greenlight hubs, require full‑time in‑office presence. Ask your Recruiter for details about this role's requirements.

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