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We design for people of all backgrounds and abilities across the globe, shaping experiences that move between the digital and physical world every day.\nUber is seeking a Creative Director to lead our Product Expression team, responsible for defining how Uber comes to life through illustration, motion, design language, visual storytelling, and moments of delight across our products.\nThis is a senior creative leadership role for someone who can establish a compelling creative vision and also get close to the work. You’ll lead and inspire a multidisciplinary team while staying close to the work-developing and prototyping new creative concepts and systems, working directly alongside designers to explore and refine ideas, and providing a high bar for craft. You’ll lead through both direction and making, helping push the work from good to exceptional.\nYou’ll work across Design Systems, Product Design, Brand, Marketing, Engineering, and Product to create an expressive language that is distinctly Uber while building the systems that allow it to scale across a global product ecosystem.\nThis role requires exceptional taste, creative judgment, strong visual and motion craft, systems thinking, and the ability to influence within a complex matrix organization. You should be equally comfortable setting a multi-year creative direction, presenting to senior leadership, leading a critique, and opening the tools to explore an idea yourself.\nWhat You Will Do\nDefine Uber’s product expression. Establish and evolve a clear creative vision for how illustration, motion, visual storytelling, and moments of delight show up across Uber’s products.\nSet an exceptional bar for craft. Develop a strong point of view on what great looks like and help teams consistently reach that bar without sacrificing speed or scalability.\nBe a hands-on creative leader. This is not a role that directs exclusively from the sidelines. Explore concepts, prototype ideas, create visual and motion direction, and work alongside designers when the work benefits from your direct involvement.\nLead and grow the Expression team. Inspire, coach, and develop designers across illustration, motion, and visual design while building a culture of experimentation, critique, and exceptional craft.\nCreate systems, not just moments. Turn strong creative ideas into reusable principles, patterns, tools, and systems that can scale across products, teams, markets, and use cases.\nPartner deeply with Product Design and Design Systems. Work closely with product and systems teams to make expression an intentional part of the experience rather than a decorative layer added at the end.\nNavigate and influence a matrix organization. Build strong relationships across Product, Brand, Marketing, Engineering, and Design. Create alignment across teams with different priorities while maintaining a coherent creative vision.\nConnect Brand and Product. Help translate the Uber brand into meaningful product experiences while recognizing that product expression has its own needs, constraints, and opportunities.\nLead through influence. Build excitement around a creative direction, communicate the rationale behind it, and bring senior leaders and cross-functional teams along without relying on organizational authority.\nChampion experimentation. Encourage the team to explore broadly, prototype quickly, and pursue unexpected ideas before converging on solutions that can scale.\nDirect and participate in creative reviews. Lead critiques, working sessions, and creative explorations that make the work stronger while helping teams understand the principles behind the feedback.\nMove fluidly between vision and detail. Be comfortable shifting from long-term creative strategy to reviewing the timing of an animation, the composition of an illustration, or the details that make an interaction feel uniquely Uber.\nBasic Qualifications\n10+ years of experience in creative direction, product design, visual design, motion design, illustration, or related disciplines.\nSignificant experience leading creative teams and setting creative direction for large-scale digital products, brands, or experiences.\nA portfolio demonstrating exceptional craft and creative leadership across multiple forms of expression, with particular strength in areas such as motion, illustration, visual design, or interactive experiences.\nDemonstrated ability to remain hands-on while leading and elevating the work of others.\nExceptional visual, verbal, and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate creative decisions and build alignment with both creative and non-creative audiences.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience defining or evolving an expressive design language across a large product ecosystem.\nDeep expertise in one or more creative disciplines-particularly motion, illustration, visual design, or interactive storytelling-with strong judgment across the others.\nExperience building creative systems that balance consistency with expression, allowing teams to create distinctive experiences without fragmenting the broader product.\nProven ability to operate successfully within a highly matrixed organization and influence senior partners across Product, Engineering, Brand, Marketing, and Design.\nExperience collaborating closely with design systems teams and translating creative direction into scalable components, patterns, guidance, and tooling.\nStrong understanding of how motion and illustration can serve functional purposes-guiding attention, communicating state, creating understanding, celebrating moments, and building emotional connection-not simply decoration.\nExperience using emerging technologies, prototyping tools, and AI to expand how creative teams explore, make, and scale their work.\nDemonstrated ability to connect creative ambition with customer needs, product strategy, and business outcomes.\nExperience designing for global products and understanding how expression needs to adapt across cultures, markets, accessibility needs, and contexts.\nA strong point of view paired with low ego: someone who can advocate passionately for quality while inviting critique, evolving ideas, and making the work better through collaboration.\n For New York City, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $241,000 per year - USD $268,000 per year.\nFor San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $241,000 per year - USD $268,000 per year.\nFor Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $241,000 per year - USD $268,000 per year.\nFor all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. 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