UberEats is coming to Ukraine: taxi tech startup Uber has posted a vacancy on its website, looking to hire a general manager in Kyiv to “scale our food delivery platform in one of our key markets globally.”
The general manager will be responsible for the launch and marketing of the service, and handling the company’s general strategy in Ukraine. The hire will have to understand the market and “balance the needs of consumers, restaurants, and delivery partners,” Uber wrote on its website, describing the job requirements.
Uber’s Ukrainian office said it could not provide any detailed information on the launch, but said the new service would be available within several months.
Online food ordering service UberEats launched globally in 2014. The service works by sending an Uber driver to pick up food selected by the user online. Delivery, which should take place within 30 minutes, costs from $4 to $5 (up to Hr 140) in the United States. The fee in Ukraine has yet to be announced.
Meanwhile, Uber introduced UberVan in December, allowing users to order larger vehicles with more than five passenger seats.
Uber first rolled out its taxi service in Ukraine in June 2016, starting with its most popular low-cost private car services, UberX.
Before the launch, Uber advertised for an Uber Ukraine CEO for more than six months, eventually hiring Arkadiy Vershebenyuk. But after a year, launching its premium service UberBlack, Uber said was it abolishing this position and opening a regional office in Ukraine to oversee operations in Belarus, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan, as well as Ukraine. Vershebenyuk was replaced by Alexei Stakh, now the regional general manager for Uber.
Over the 19 months of its presence in Ukraine, Uber has launched in seven of Ukraine’s cities: Kyiv, Odesa, Lviv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhya, and Vinnytsia. The company is competing with a Ukrainian rival called Uklon, which still occupies a bigger share of the market.
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