Uber Eats ($UBER) is entering an aggressive global-expansion period with the help of virtual restaurants and kitchen space for upstart delivery-only restaurants around the world. Through an alternative-data analysis of job listings via Uber’s careers site (along with our daily snapshots over time), we’re able to see this expansion happening in real-time.
Uber listed 2,201 individual job opening pages as of March 12, 2019. That’s an increase of 66.23% year-to-date and a complete turnaround from a fall job listings crash of 2017, when it was being investigated by the FBI and lost its license to operate in London.