Product Manager, Driver Planning & Positioning

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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 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. We are looking for entrepreneurial and passionate Product Managers to innovate and execute across a rapidly growing, fast paced company and industry from our San Francisco headquarters.

Drivers are fundamental to the Lyft marketplace and product experience. As part of the broader Supply Shaping team, the PM, Driving Planning & Positioning will focus on helping drivers plan when and where to drive. This team takes pride in being obsessed with the challenges our Drivers experience, using data as the foundation of our work, optimizing for long term business value over short term growth hacks, and working with a large, on the ground operations team in every market, which provides a human touch to the product.

This individual should possess a very high level of product development experience, and has experience working in deep product domains and using data and experimentation to guide a large cross-functional team towards a long term vision. This PM, Driving Planning & Positioning  will ensure we’re solving the needs of our customers and driving business impact by becoming the go-to leader for multiple cross-functional teams and constantly thinking about combining what motivates driver behavior by utilizing strong analytics within marketplace dynamics and an evolving regulatory environment.

Responsibilities:

  • Understand Lyft's strategic and competitive position. Set your team's goals, success metrics and roadmap to align with Lyft's mission and drive maximum impact based on data analysis, market research and usability studies.
  • Completely own your team's products, existing or new, from ideation, through development, to launch, growth and maintenance.
  • Lead and align cross functional partners and teams: engineers, designers, analysts, marketers, business partners and operations and other product teams to drive a shared vision. 
  • Communicate clearly roadmaps, priorities, experiments and decisions across a wide spectrum of audiences from partner teams to executive levels.

Experience:

  • Minimum of 4-8 years of relevant product management experience
  • Experience in product management, product design or equivalent consultant experience.
  • Passion for Lyft and what we are trying to achieve in sustainable urban transportation.
  • Natural ability to make things happen around you. You manage project ambiguity, complexity and interdependencies in an organized and structured way. Be able to define and analyze metrics that inform the success of products.
  • Excellent judgment and thoughtfulness about the dynamics of a product ecosystem. 
  • Strong communication skills and intuition for communication strategy at every level -- within teams, within the company, to users, to press, and other audiences.
  • Experience leading post-launch optimizations including developing testing strategies.
  • Ability to conceptualize, manage and prioritize multiple projects for stakeholders.
  • Detail orientated with superior organizational skills -- balancing multiple projects, deadlines, and requests should be second nature to you.
  • Nice to have: experience working on products that have created behavior change in their users

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

Lyft is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce.  Lyft does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender-identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws or prohibited by Company policy.  Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.  Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and other similar state laws and local ordinances, Lyft will also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.