Product Designer - Lyft Rentals

At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.

We’re looking for a product designer to design groundbreaking experiences for our Lyft Rentals team.

Lyft Rentals is a new product on the Lyft platform which allows users to seamlessly rent a car for weekend getaways, business travel, and errands. This product is a critical piece of Lyft’s multi-modal offering and has been growing at a rapid pace. Our teams are solving the most challenging technical and human problems in the industry with all of the data, technologies, and methodologies enabled by Lyft’s scale. We are looking for an entrepreneurial, customer-obsessed, and passionate designer to innovate and execute.

As a product designer for Lyft Rentals, you will be involved at every step of product development, from brainstorming broad ideas to ensuring design quality through launch. Lyft is looking for a design leader who uses their full range of interaction, visual, and product thinking skills, to lead and own an experience.

Our projects range from tactical to strategic business decisions, all the way to crafting the future of the business. The designer for Lyft Rentals will focus on improving both our core in-app booking experience as well as the real world physical one. By thinking end to end we will be able to cement Lyft Rentals as the best rental car experience in the industry.

The Fleet design team is a diverse group of designers, researchers, content designers, and a design program manager. Our team has both new grads as well as senior staff, and we represent a diverse and global population. We work collaboratively and pride ourselves on being considerate and honest with one another.

In a lot of ways we function as a startup, meaning we all work closely and collaboratively across organizations to align on product vision and ship product. Our Design and Research teams live and breathe user-centered process to create the best possible, end-to-end, experience for millions of Passengers and Drivers daily. We can be scrappy when we need to be, though we are always focused on quality and influence.

As a qualified candidate, you have a track record of leading projects to successful outcomes for users and the business. You are a strong cross-functional partner, great communicator, and are able to take a solution from idea to implementation. You uphold a high quality bar and have a strong appreciation for the details. Above all, you approach problems holistically and create elegantly simple solutions to multi-faceted problems.

Responsibilities:

• Problem solve, think big, and explore divergent concepts/ideas while understanding how to converge and build iteratively towards your vision
• Plan strategically and think tactically as a partner with product and engineering to define the future of the team
• Influence the shape of the product with research and data while executing design work using high quality wireframes, mockups, user journeys, and cross-platform interactive prototypes
• Advocate for design by sharing your work and presenting cross-functionally, while being able to precisely articulate design rationale
• Inspire the entire team (including your cross-functional) partners by bringing new ideas to the table
• Create a unified, end-to-end experience through close collaboration with team members from across the Product and Marketing Design Teams
• The work responsibilities of this role are expected to take place during business hours in your local Time Zone in the US.

Experience:

• 5+ years of experience working in UX, UI, HCI related field with experience working on mobile
• Experience designing on multiple platforms (iOS, Android, Mobile web, Desktop, etc)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Highly proficient with design tools (Figma, Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.)
• Highly proficient with interactive prototyping tools (Framer, Principle, Origami, Invision Studio, etc.)
• Excellence in design craft
• Ability to work with a low-ego, highly collaborative, cross-functional team
• Excited about working in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment

Benefits:

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
• Mental health benefits
• In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have unlimited paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
• 401(k) plan to help save for your future
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program

For candidates living in Colorado the expected base pay range is $130,240.00 - $188,320.00 and depending on a variety of non-discriminatory factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location.

This role is work-from-anywhere, excluding the following states and territory: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wyoming, Puerto Rico.

Lyft is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment  without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. 

Until further notice, Lyft employees working in the United States and Canada in any capacity (on a daily or hybrid schedule, remote, or as a visitor) are required to provide proof of full vaccination against COVID-19. Employees are considered fully vaccinated two weeks after completion of the entire recommended series of vaccination (usually one or two doses) with a vaccine authorized to prevent COVID-19 by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA), including by way of an emergency use authorization. Lyft will maintain records associated with your vaccination history in a way that is compliant with all relevant Federal, state and local laws. Exceptions to this requirement are employees who require religious or medical exemption as approved through Lyft's accommodations process. New employees must provide proof of full vaccination or receive an accommodation exception approval prior to their start date.