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.
The growth we’ve seen so far has been explosive, but it’s just one small step towards our larger mission: improve people's lives with the world’s best transportation.
Lyft is looking for someone to join the New Markets team as a Senior Analyst, to accelerate our global expansion at Lyft. In a typical day, you may extract insights from data, problem solve issues in recently launched markets, build business cases for new markets, work cross-functionally with senior leaders across the company to identify opportunities and ultimately launch new markets.
The Senior Analyst, New Markets will report to our Senior Manager, New Markets. You will be involved in both strategy and execution, and play a critical role in bringing new ideas to life. If you want to be a part of Lyft’s incredible growth story, and believe deeply that Lyft’s growth will change the world, we want to talk to you.
Responsibilities:
- Identify key questions, problems, and opportunities to improve Lyft’s business using your sharp business acumen and judgment.
- Develop business cases and go-to-market strategies for new ideas within the New Markets team
- Build and deploy re-usable decision making tools and dashboards to streamline processes in new markets, identify operational issues and solve them
- Conduct analytical deep dives and independently develop hypotheses and solutions around Lyft passenger & driver behavior and competitive & marketplace dynamics in Lyft’s newest markets
- Deliver analyses to guide decision-making and prioritization across departments, organizing and distilling data into into applicable recommendations and insights
- Present findings, recommendations, and results
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and build processes and help Lyft scale
- Support launch of new markets
- Travel 10-20% of the time to help launch new markets
Experience:
- 2+ years work experience
- Consulting, investment banking, corporate development and strategy, start-up operations & strategy, or analytics experience required
- SQL proficiency required
- Data analysis experience - able to dissect business issues, analyze large amounts of data, and draw actionable conclusions
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for internal and external stakeholders
- Entrepreneurial self-starter - you naturally take ownership, look for opportunities, and do whatever it takes to drive results
- You have a natural curiosity coupled with excellent investigative skills
Benefits:
- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
- In addition to 11 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
- Monthly commuter subsidy to cover your transit to work
- 20% off all Lyft rides
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, and its internal policy, Lyft will also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.