An epithelial cell that is part of a ureteric bud. A ureteric bud cell has the potential to induce metanephric mesenchymal cells to proliferate and convert to epithelia that form renal tubules via: (1) the secretion of multiple diffusible growth factors that rescue renal progenitors from apoptosis and stimulate them to proliferate and (2) contact-dependent mechanisms that induce mesenchymal-epithelial conversion. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9374839 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24183650 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17133361 ]