Uber president and chief corporate affairs officer Jill Hazelbaker will depart the company, effective Nov. 30, Uber announced Wednesday.
Hazelbaker had been promoted to the newly created role in May, where she shared the president title with COO Andrew Macdonald. Prior to joining Uber, she held positions at Snap and Google.
Hazelbaker will join OpenAI after spending 10 years with Uber, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said on a Wednesday morning earnings call. "She has built a great team who get to step up to more senior positions, many of them working with me directly," he said.
The company did not disclose succession details.
Meanwhile, Khosrowshahi pointed to Uber for Business as a key avenue of growth.
"Premium as a theme for us and corporate business as a theme for us is something that we want to kind of double-down on," Khosrowshahi said, adding that the agreements to acquire ground transportation provider Blacklane and corporate-catering company ezCater, the latter announced last month, tie into the segments.
"Blacklane gives us more specialty, very high-quality inventory, and ezCater has specialized capabilities," he said. "It's a different level of service, and there's a huge advantage in being able to offer both Blacklane and ezCater to our U4B audience."
Khosrowshahi added that about half of the Fortune 500 companies are Uber for Business customers.
Khosrowshahi also noted that Uber expects to have 700 fully driverless vehicles on its platform by year-end and more than 2,000 by the end of 2027. "We're excited for Zoox to launch on Uber in Las Vegas later this month with Motional moving up to fully driverless operations soon thereafter," he said.
Meanwhile, Bloomberg reported that Waymo plans to end its exclusive robotaxi partnership with Uber in January 2028 in each Atlanta and Austin, Texas, as the autonomous company plans to launch service through its own app in those cities.
Uber Q3 Metrics
Uber reported third-quarter revenue of $14.8 billion, a 10 percent increase year over year, on gross bookings of $59.8 billion, up 20 percent for the period. Mobility revenue was down 2 percent to $7.5 billion on mobility gross bookings of $29.5 billion, an 18 percent increase. Delivery revenue was up 23 percent to nearly $5.5 billion on delivery gross bookings of $28.5 billion, an increase of 22 percent year over year.
Third-quarter net income was $512 million compared with $6.6 billion a year prior.
Uber reported 215 million monthly active platform consumers in the third quarter, up 14 percent year over year, with trips increasing 16 percent to nearly 4.1 billion.
The company expects fourth-quarter gross bookings of $64.25 billion to $65.25 billion, representing growth of 18 percent to 22 percent year over year.