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Local transportation officials have sought to sweeten the deal, too. Uber must create the jobs before it receives the state funds. Uber could get up to $24 million in grants from the Texas Enterprise Fund, which translates to roughly $8,000 for each of the 3,000 jobs that Uber plans to bring to Dallas. State, city and county leaders approved nearly $36 million in economic incentives to bring Uber to Dallas, and some of those include job creation targets.

(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)īut Miller said the new office in Dallas shows that Uber is focused on the future. “We are continuing to aggressively hire talent, and I think we're proving that with the Dallas office,” he said. Uber's Texas public policy manager Chris Miller poses for a photo on the patio of The Epic. It laid off about 400 marketing employees in late July and recently froze hiring of software engineers and product managers across much of its business.

Since it went public in May, Uber has lost more than $6 billion, reported its slowest ever revenue growth and taken cost-cutting measures. The ride-hailing company w ants to become the "Amazon of transportation" but has yet to turn a profit. The new office comes at a challenging time for Uber. “We really see this as the spine to support all of our global offices and operations across the world,” Miller said.