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From day one, Lyft’s mission has been to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. And self-driving cars are critical to that mission: they can make our streets safer, cities greener, and traffic a thing of the past. That’s why we started Level 5, our self-driving division, where we’re building a self-driving system to operate on the Lyft network.

Level 5 is looking for doers and creative problem solvers to join us in developing the leading self-driving system for ridesharing. Our team members come from diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise, and each has the opportunity to have an outsized influence on the future of our technology. Our world-class software and hardware experts work in brand new garages and labs in Palo Alto, California, and offices in London, England and Munich, Germany. And we’re moving at an incredible pace: we’re currently servicing employee rides in our test vehicles on the Lyft app. Learn more at lyft.com/level5.

Technical Program Managers at Lyft drive cross-functional initiatives, leveraging strong leadership, planning, communication, and collaboration skills. Our TPMs have proven experience as strong technical contributors in the disciplines of hardware, software or systems engineering. They are problem solvers who make things happen around them by setting clear goals and inspiring teams to deliver them. For this role we are looking for an individual with a passion for delivering safety critical hardware and software system solutions. In this role you will collaborate within engineering and across the Level 5 Engineering Center organization on programs that enable us to scale Lyft’s own Autonomous Vehicle program. 

Responsibilities:

• Lead iterative delivery of strategic cross-functional initiatives from concept to ship, through focus, transparency, communication, visibility, and accountability  
• Leverage deep technical expertise on complex safety critical systems to build comprehensive plans, to identify risks, and to ensure smooth project launches with a goal of delighting our customers
• Partner with engineering, product, and business leadership to build highly collaborative teams and to enhance communication across teams and stakeholders
• Identify and resolve systemic issues impacting Lyft engineering and aggressively take action to resolve

Experience:

• Proven experience as an individual contributor engineer and technical program manager in one of the following fields: mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, systems engineering, or software engineering
• 5+ years of experience
• Responsible for delivery as a TPM, engineering, or product leader
• Experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver complex projects iteratively with multiple dependencies and constraints, in a highly dynamic and agile environment
• Proven ability to operate effectively and autonomously across multiple teams in situations of ambiguity, with only high level direction
• Experience building roadmaps, release plans, project plans with a thorough understanding of dependency management
• Able to communicate highly technical problems and solutions at all levels from engineer to C-level executives
• Able to influence, negotiate and inspire others in a matrixed environment
• Excellent organization, planning skills, and attention to detail
• Extensive experience using project management tools
• Experience managing projects from prototyping to large-scale manufacturing

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

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