Senior Product Manager, Autonomous Vehicles

At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. Lyft connects people to transportation to change the way we live and get around our communities. 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 creative 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.

As a product manager on the AV team, you will work on one of Lyft’s most exciting new product areas. Lyft partners with AV self-driving technology companies and cities to connect the Lyft community with future AV rides in the Lyft app. This role will focus on identifying, testing our way into, and scaling our AV platform to advance Lyft’s future vision for connecting AVs, drivers, riders, and partners to create new opportunities for all. 

The right PM for this role will operate with enormous amounts of user empathy, be deeply analytical yet scrappy, and effectively work across Lyft and partners to deliver experiences and products that delight our users and represent our brand values.

Responsibilities:

• Understand Lyft’s strategic and competitive position in the broader AV landscape in order to set an ambitious product vision that motivates and inspires your team, peers and leadership.
• Demonstrate customer obsession by deeply understanding and empathizing with the concerns of riders, drivers, and internal and external partners to deliver great product experiences.
• Work with your engineering, design, science, business, and operations counterparts to prioritize and execute on the right product solutions that thoughtfully grow Lyft’s AV presence.
• Deliver on this vision by setting your team's goals, success metrics and roadmap to align with Lyft’s mission and drive maximum impact.
• Build a product roadmap to achieve your goals and lead a core team of engineers, designers, data scientists, legal, policy, and business stakeholders to execute on it.
• Be a valued collaborator for business development and strategic partners – finding common ground that meet the needs of all parties
• Completely own your team’s products – existing or new – from ideation, through development, launch, growth, and maintenance.
• Collaborate extremely effectively across the company, clearly communicating roadmaps, priorities, experiments, and decisions across a wide spectrum of audiences from partner teams to executive levels.

Experience:

• 5+ years in product management or equivalent experience, with significant time spent leading consumer facing products.
• Natural leadership and ability to make things happen. You manage project ambiguity, complexity, and interdependencies in an organized and structured way, and you are able to define and analyze metrics that inform the success of your products.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to leverage data to inform product decisions and strategy
• Possess strong business judgment, with the ability to balance end-consumer and partner needs.
• Excellent judgment and thoughtfulness about the dynamics of the product ecosystem.
• Strong communication skills and intuition for communication strategy at every level -- within teams, within the company, to users, and other audiences.
• Ability to conceptualize, prioritize and lead multiple projects for stakeholders.
• Detail oriented with superior organizational skills -- balancing multiple projects, deadlines, and requests should be second nature to you.

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.

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

The expected base pay range for this position in the San Francisco area is $144,000 - $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.