Product Designer, Partnerships

We’re looking for a Product Designer to play a pivotal role in our partnerships initiatives, contributing to new experiences and offerings that integrate Lyft with other companies and brands. You'll work alongside designers, engineers, researchers, marketers, data scientists, and product managers to define and create top-notch experiences with Riders needs at the center of your work. This role focuses on creating innovative, user-centered solutions that enhance the Lyft ecosystem through strategic partnerships.

You’ll advocate for a customer-centric approach and thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. From initial ideation through to launch, you'll support projects with interaction, visual, and product thinking skills, helping to define and deliver impactful experiences for our Rider Segments team.

As a member of the Partnerships team within Rider Segments, you'll work on projects that aim to drive growth through impactful, cross-company integrations. You’ll collaborate on experiences that streamline and enrich our service offerings, designing interactions that resonate deeply with our Riders. This role involves identifying how Lyft’s services can complement and enhance products from other companies, exploring new ways to foster loyalty, habitual use, and seamless interaction between Lyft and our partners.

Responsibilities:

• Think big, explore diverse ideas, and iterate towards a creative, feasible solution that aligns with partnership goals and Rider needs.
• Create beautiful, mobile-first designs.
• Leverage research insights, user data, and analytics to inform design decisions, ensuring solutions are user-centered and partnership-friendly.
• Create and deliver high-quality wireframes, mockups, user journeys, and interactive prototypes that adhere to design standards.
• Work closely with product, engineering, and business teams to ideate, iterate, and implement partnership-driven features and services.
• Apply systems thinking to create cohesive experiences across integration points, ensuring consistency between Lyft and partner brands.
• Share and present work across teams with clear design rationale, fostering a collaborative, design-driven culture.
• Contribute new ideas and solutions to inspire both the design team and cross-functional partners.
• Collaborate with team members across functions to ensure a seamless, intuitive Rider experience within the Lyft ecosystem and in partnership with other brands.
• Prioritize design solutions that address Rider needs and add brand value to both Lyft and partner offerings.

Experience:

• 5+ years of experience working in UX, UI, HCI related field with experience working on mobile applications (iOS/Android)
• Experience designing on multiple platforms (iOS, Android, Mobile web, Desktop, etc)
• Strong systems thinking abilities, understanding how different parts of an experience interact and contribute to a cohesive product.
• Product thinking across businesses, with experience or interest in designing for partnership or cross-brand environments.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Highly proficient with design tools (Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.)
• Highly proficient with interactive prototyping tools (Framer, Principle, Origami, 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
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and best practices

Even if you don't directly have the skills above, please consider applying. We know talent takes many different shapes. 

Benefits:

• Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Access to a Health Care Savings Account
• In addition to provincial observed holidays, team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service 
• 4 Floating Holidays each calendar year prorated based off of date of hire
• 10 paid sick days per year regardless of province
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible

Lyft proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. Lyft believes that every person has a right to equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, pardoned record of offences, or any other basis protected by applicable law or by Company policy.  Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.  Accommodation for persons with disabilities will be provided upon request in accordance with applicable law during the application and hiring process.  Please contact your recruiter now if you wish to make such a request.

This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Thursdays and a team-specific third day. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid