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# Talent Acquisition Manager, Operations at Uber Freight

- **Company:** Uber Freight
- **Location:** Chicago IL 60607, United States
- **Posted:** 2026-10-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-28
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/uberfreight/jobs/5457155008

## Job description

Schedule: Full Time

Job Type: Hybrid

Salary Type: Salary

Req #: 3583

No immigration sponsorship or transfer available for this role.

## About the Role

We are looking for an Operations Recruiting Manager to lead and scale our Talent Acquisition efforts. In this role, you will bridge high-level workforce strategy with hands-on execution - managing a team of recruiters while partnering closely with department leaders to attract top-tier talent across our Operations business. You will optimize hiring pipelines, elevate the candidate experience, and build inclusive, data-driven strategies that drive company growth.

What the Candidate Will Do

- Lead & Mentorship: Build, coach, and inspire a high-performing talent acquisition team to reach their goals and excel in hiring best practices.
- Strategic Partnership: Collaborate with executives and cross-functional leaders to forecast headcount needs, set expectations, and align on hiring priorities.
- Hiring Excellence & Operations: Drive standardization across recruitment workflows, ATS processes, and interview standards to ensure a fast, equitable, and top-tier candidate journey.
- Data-Driven Strategy: Leverage recruiting analytics (Time-to-Hire, Offer Acceptance Rate, Funnel Conversion) to influence stakeholders, measure quality, and continuously improve hiring operations.

## Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor’s Degree
- At least 5 years of experience within recruiting
- At least 3 years of people leadership experience
- Proven track record of using data to drive recruitment strategy and influence business leaders
- Experience building, managing and hiring teams
- Experience working within a transportation/logistics company and knowledge of logistics operations departments

## Preferred Qualifications

- Successful Project Management abilities, delivering upon work streams within high-priority projects
- Demonstrated ability to use applicant tracking systems, HRIS and hiring platforms (i.e. Greenhouse, Oracle, LinkedIn Talent Insights).
- Expertise in attracting, leading, motivating and inspiring a team of recruiters
- Experience partnering and creating trust-based, value-added relationships globally
- Ability to solve problems and think creatively

## Benefits & Compensation for U.S. Employees

Employees working more than 30 hours in the US at Uber Freight are eligible for benefits like a company sponsored health plan, dental and vision benefits, 401k match, financial and mental wellness benefits, parental leave, short- and long-term disability coverage, life insurance and more.  US based employees may also be eligible for a performance or sales incentive bonus program, participation in Uber Freight equity awards, and other types of compensation depending upon the role.

- Illinois: The salary range for this role is between $110,000 to $130,000 a year

## About Uber Freight

Uber Freight is a market-leading enterprise technology company powering intelligent logistics. With a suite of end-to-end logistics applications, managed services and an expansive carrier network, Uber Freight advances supply chains and moves the world’s goods. Today, the company manages nearly $20B of freight and one of the largest networks of carriers. It is backed by best-in-class investors and provides services for 1 in 3 Fortune 500 companies, including Del Monte Foods, Nestle, Anheuser-Busch InBev, and more. For more, visit [www.uberfreight.com](https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=aZt5hy_vlUfB4JV2bXcy07lYm1tYPcRFnoBdHC8B5cRzNB_rzPRfHVnpFvogIAjc3WyyZLuFOsz2D8DhJdMdEvmexZ9Ike76l9AqXr036cw=).

Candidate Privacy Notice

Uber Freight is committed to protecting the privacy of our candidates. We collect and process personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws. For detailed information on how we handle candidate data, please review our [Candidate Privacy Notice](https://www.uberfreight.com/candidate-privacy-notice/).

## EEOC

Uber Freight is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

## About Uber Freight

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Uber Freight is a premier logistics partner that unifies managed transportation and multi-modal capacity in a shared operating model, leveraging advanced technology and one of North America’s largest carrier networks.
- **Entity Type**: Private (wholly owned subsidiary of Uber Technologies, Inc.)
- **Headquarters**: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Spun out of Uber Technologies; key leadership includes Lior Ron (co-founder of Uber Freight, departed) and current CEO (not publicly listed).

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain, and Storage
- **Target customers**: B2B – specifically enterprise shippers (1 in 3 Fortune 500 companies), mid-market companies, and carriers. Serves industries including automotive, chemical, construction, CPG, food & beverage, manufacturing, packaging, and retail.
- **Mission statement**: To lead the pace of logistics to move the world’s goods, redefining logistics by combining one of the largest multimodal carrier networks with cutting-edge technology and managed transportation expertise.

## Products & Services
- **Uber Freight TMS (Transportation Management System)**: A SaaS platform that draws on freight activity across thousands of shipper networks with decades of accumulated data. It provides predictive signals for routing, capacity, and risk management, allowing teams to act earlier rather than react.
- **Multi-modal Solutions**: Turn capacity across modes (truckload, LTL, intermodal, etc.) into governed programs aligned with network priorities. Helps shippers protect cost and service targets as conditions change.
- **Managed Services**: A single operating layer that aligns procurement decisions, daily execution, and freight settlement. Financial outcomes, service targets, and carrier accountability stay coordinated across the shipment lifecycle.
- **Network Intelligence & Carrier Network**: Access to one of North America’s largest multimodal capacity networks, with 18 million total shipments annually and 1.8 billion transactions annually. Customers benefit from network-level patterns translated into market insights.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (subsidiary of Uber Technologies, Inc., which had a market cap of ~$170B as of mid-2026). Prior funding rounds: $500M Series A (Oct 2020, led by Greenbriar Equity Group) and $550M Private Equity Round (Nov 2021).
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $925.5M (2026 estimate); total funding of $1.05B.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Greenbriar Equity Group, Nvidia (backing), Zeev Ventures, and other institutional investors.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Manages $17B+ in freight under management.
  - Saves customers $1B annually; 98% customer retention; average customer tenure of 8.5 years.
  - Headcount of 2,637 (+3.7% YoY growth).
  - Active in 42 countries with offices across North America, Europe, and Mexico.
  - Acquired Transplace in 2021 (a major logistics acquisition) and Leancor.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Network scale**: One of the largest multimodal carrier networks in North America, processing 18M shipments and 1.8B transactions annually.
- **Data moat**: Decades of accumulated freight data from thousands of shipper networks, providing predictive intelligence and market insights that competitors cannot easily replicate.
- **Uber ecosystem**: Backed by Uber’s technology, brand, and talent pool, with access to cross-functional expertise in mobility, data science, and platform engineering.
- **End-to-end solution**: Unique combination of TMS, managed services, and multi-modal capacity under a single operating model—unlike fragmented competitors.
- **Customer stickiness**: 8.5-year average tenure and 98% retention rate, indicating deep integration into customer supply chains.

## Strategic Focus
- **Unified orchestration**: Moving beyond siloed tools to a single system that governs planning, procurement, capacity, and execution in real time.
- **Volatility management**: Building systems that see risk earlier, adapt in motion, and protect performance as conditions change (e.g., supply chain disruptions).
- **AI and automation**: Leveraging data and AI (including partnership with Nvidia) to deliver predictive signals and autonomous decision-making for shippers and carriers.
- **Expansion**: Continued geographic and service line expansion (e.g., intermodal, cross-border Mexico/Canada, managed services).
- **Sustainability**: Optimizing routes and modes to reduce carbon footprint and improve efficiency (implied by network intelligence capabilities).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Values include "Innovate with Purpose," "Stronger Together" (emphasizing diversity, equity, and belonging), and "Do the Right Thing." The company fosters collaboration where employees feel empowered to be authentic.
- **Career Growth**: "Accelerated growth" is a core pillar—employees have access to cross-functional project work, formal training, quarterly feedback, and development conversations. Teams include engineering, data science, operations, sales, and customer service.
- **Work Model**: Hybrid– offices in Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Northwest Arkansas (including Frisco, TX; Rogers, AR), Monterrey (MX), Netherlands, and others. Many roles (e.g., Logistics Specialist, Account Manager) are listed as hybrid.
- **Total Rewards**: Competitive compensation, health insurance, family planning, wellness, personal time off, mental health benefits.
- **People & Team**: Described as "friendly, smart, passionate individuals from every walk of life." Many employees come from top tech and logistics companies (e.g., Amazon, Walmart, C.H. Robinson, Uber).
- **Impact**: "The potential to change the industry is huge," and employees are motivated by the positive impact on communities and the challenge of moving the world’s goods.
- **Employer Rating**: 3.0/5.0 on LinkedIn (155 reviews), with Work-Life Balance at 3.2, Compensation at 3.0, Culture at 3.0, and Career at 2.8. Recent departures include several senior directors (Feb–Mar 2026) but headcount is still growing.
- **Active Job Postings**: 68 open positions as of mid-2026, with a +54.5% increase in postings year-over-year.

## Sources
1. [Uber Freight About Us](https://www.uberfreight.com/en-US/about-us)
2. [Uber Freight Careers Page](https://www.uberfreight.com/en-US/careers)
3. [Uber Freight Homepage](https://www.uberfreight.com/en-US)
4. [Uber Freight LinkedIn Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/uber-freight)
5. [PitchBook Company Profile](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/226257-13)

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