Lyft

Senior Product Manager, Core Rider

Lyft$148K — $185K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years in product management, product design, or similar roles leading consumer-facing products.
  • Strong leadership skills and ability to navigate complex projects effectively.
  • Excellent communication abilities across various levels of audiences.
  • Detail-oriented with outstanding organizational skills for managing multiple projects.
  • Preferred experience in membership, subscription, or loyalty program development.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze market landscape to align product vision and drive strategic goals.
  • Define strategic direction in ambiguous problem spaces by interpreting fragmented data and stakeholder priorities.
  • Set team goals and build a product roadmap to achieve objectives effectively.
  • Lead collaboration with engineers, designers, data scientists, and marketers.
  • Understand customer needs deeply to inform product development and enhancements.
  • Own product lifecycle from concept through launch and ongoing management.
  • Communicate priorities and roadmap to various audiences from teams to executives.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance options.
  • Mental health support services.
  • Family building and childcare benefits.
  • 401(k) plan with company match.
  • Discretionary paid time off plus 12 holidays.
  • 18 weeks of paid parental leave for all types of parents.
  • Subsidized commuter benefits and monthly Lyft credits.
Full Job Description
The Rider team is responsible for the Lyft consumer app that you know and love (we hope!), and spans the entire consumer journey across the request and purchase flows, search, pickups and drop offs, the post-match experience, and the in-trip experience. We're hiring a Product Manager to lead our Golden Path strategy, owning the core ride request flows. The ideal candidate combines deep user empathy with strong analytical skills, has a proven track record driving core consumer product strategy, and excels at cross-functional collaboration to deliver experiences that embody Lyft's mission.
Responsibilities:
  • Drive strategic alignment by analyzing Lyft's competitive landscape and market position to define an ambitious product vision that motivates teams and leadership. Set team goals and success metrics that directly support Lyft's mission while maximizing business impact through rigorous data analysis, competitive intelligence, and user research insights.
  • Lead through uncharted product territory by analyzing fragmented data and emerging patterns to define strategic direction in ambiguous problem spaces, transforming incomplete insights and conflicting stakeholder priorities into clear product vision, actionable frameworks, and executable roadmaps.
  • Deliver on this vision by setting your team's goals, success metrics and roadmap and collaborating extremely effectively across the company.
  • Build a product roadmap to achieve your goals and lead a core team of engineers, designers, data scientists, and marketers to execute on it.
  • Deeply understand the needs and motivations of your customers.
  • Completely own your team's products - existing or new - from ideation, through development, launch, growth, and maintenance.
  • Clearly communicate roadmaps, priorities, experiments, and decisions across a wide spectrum of audiences from partner teams to executive levels.
Experience:
  • 4+ years in product management, product design or equivalent consultant 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.
  • 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.
  • Background in membership, subscription, or loyalty program development in consumer-facing products or services preferred
Benefits:
  • Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled
  • Mental health benefits
  • Family building benefits
  • Child care and pet benefits
  • 401(k) plan with company match to help save for your future
  • In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
  • 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
  • Subsidized commuter benefits
  • Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership

Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. 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. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Lyft offers. 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 $148,000 - $185,000, not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.

About Lyft

Lyft is a transportation network company that was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company operates a mobile app that allows users to request rides from nearby drivers. Lyft provides ride-hailing services in the United States and Canada, and it has expanded into other transportation services, such as bike-sharing and scooter-sharing. The company is known for its pink mustache logo, which was replaced by a glowing dashboard mustache in 2015. Lyft went public in March 2019.
Learn more about Lyft
Size
4,453 employees
Market Cap
$3.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$1.7 billion
Founded
2012
5 Year Trend
+56.4%
Revenue
$2.3 billion
NASDAQ

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