Product Manager, Marketplace Foundations

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.

Lyft connects people to transportation to change the way we live and get around our communities. We are looking for product managers who bring exceptional strategic and analytical skills to drive forward a best in class product. Product management at Lyft leads the integration of engineering, data science, and design to achieve the company’s vision for reinventing transportation. We are looking for entrepreneurial and passionate Product Managers to innovate and execute across a rapidly growing, fast paced company and industry.

Through your leadership, you’ll bridge technical, business, and operations worlds as you design technologies with creative and prolific engineers, leverage your technical expertise to identify setbacks and roadblocks within a project and generate solutions for resolving them quickly. You will have a bias for action to break down complex problems into steps that drive product development at Lyft speed.

The Foundations Vertical within Marketplace builds critical products that enable other teams within Marketplace and across Lyft to scale. As the Product Manager for Experimentation Platform and Machine Learning Platform you’ll work with an incredible team of Machine Learning Engineers, Data Scientists and Product Engineers to build a suite of products to improve key elements of our foundational technology, the Experimentation Platform and the Machine Learning Platform.

Responsibilities:

• Drive the Lyft wide vision for Machine Learning Platform and or Experimentation Platform (depending on candidate) 
• Understand internal stakeholder needs including the differences amongst use cases and translate those into a platform roadmap
• Stay plugged in to industry trends and best practices
• Distinguish when to build vs buy and to manage vendor relationships
• Understand the complex interactions between riders and drivers in a rideshare marketplace and the effect that pricing, pay and matching have on rider, driver and marketplace outcomes
• Understand Lyft’s strategic and competitive position using data analysis, market research and usability studies.
• Translate customer needs and constraints into a coherent set of product features that solve these needs with a continuous path of improvement
• Set goals for the team with clear success metrics
• Lead and align cross functional partners and teams: engineers, designers, analysts, marketers, business partners and operations to drive a shared vision.
• Completely own your team's products, existing or new, from ideation, through development, launch, growth and maintenance.

Experience:

• Master's Degree or equivalent work experience in a technical field
• 3+ years of product management experience, leading high performing product teams
• Experience creating product roadmaps from conception to launch, driving product vision, defining go-to-market strategy, and leading design discussions
• Deep technical expertise in a quantitative field - Operations Research / Machine Learning / Causal inference 
• A track record of building technical platforms - Machine Learning and or Experimentation
• A track record of building quantitative products - pricing, personalization, recommendations, forecasting, etc.  
• Advanced problem-solving skills ­with the ability to think creatively to resolve difficult situations with a proven record of follow-through on assigned tasks
• Strong cross-functional relationship building with high empathy to understand the needs of other businesses and priorities
• Comfortable in a fast-­paced environment, subject to rapid change and innovation
• Active participant in defining workplace culture, product manager pathways and organizational design
• Strong communication skills and intuition for communication strategy at every level -- within teams, within the company, to users, to press, and other audiences
• Strong written communication skills and a passion to communicate clearly in written format. An ideal candidate will deliver a high volume of written strategy and product requirements individually and collaboratively
• Ability to conceptualize, manage and prioritize multiple projects for stakeholders
• Detail-oriented with superior organizational skills -- balancing multiple projects, deadlines, and requests should be second nature to you
• Passion for Lyft and what we are trying to achieve in sustainable urban transportation.

Benefits:

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
• Mental health benefits
• Family building 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

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.  

Starting in September 2023, 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, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year.

The base salary range for this position in the US is $162,000- $180,000. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Range is not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.