Uber's got jobs—lots and lots of jobs. But Uber has found that hiring for all of those positions, and quickly, is turning out to be a bottleneck.
That's why the ride-hailing company is planning a new recruiting platform to widen and speed up its search and hiring efforts—starting with hiring someone to build the platform itself.
"We are looking for an exceptional product manager to build out the Uber Recruiting Platform - a series of products and systems that will help Uber attract the best talent in the world as we scale from thousands to tens of thousands of employees in the next short few years," Uber wrote in a job posting.
Uber aims to "scale from thousands to tens of thousands of employees in the next short few years."
"This is a mission-critical, extremely high leverage project for Uber’s Growth Team. Your team will create innovative solutions for identifying top candidates, optimizing referrals, empowering leaders to hire rapidly, telling the Uber story...unlocking the world’s talent pool to work on Uber’s amazing global mission," the company wrote.
It's not just about drivers. Managers, tech developers, lawyers and more are necessary if Uber is going to establish itself on a bigger, international scale than it is now. Uber certainly has the cash for it and will soon have more if the latest multi-billion dollar funding round is more than just a rumor.
What exactly the platform will look like is hard to say. Presumably it will have an aggressive outreach portion to get the high-value employees its looking for along with figuring out ways to make working at Uber more attractive. Uber has to compete not only against other ride-sharing companies, but also adapt its company culture to the many different cities and countries it operates in in a way that will bring in the kind of diverse expertise it needs.
It's another sign of the company's attempt at maturing from a startup to a regular corporation—and a necessary one if it's going to keep growing. "If successful, the products you build will become an essential driver of Uber’s growth," Uber wrote in the job posting.
