Contract Manager, Lyft
$108-135k
Ride sharing company
Open for applications
Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$108-135k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.
Role
Who you are
- The successful candidate will be an engaged and resourceful self-starter, comfortable working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment and excellent at building strong relationships with team members
- Bachelor’s Degree required
- 3+ years of progressive responsibility with quantifiable results in contract negotiation, administration and/or management; in-house experience a plus
- Resourceful self-starter with excellent problem-solving capabilities, judgment, negotiation, communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills
- Proven ability to manage high-volume workloads, multiple stakeholder demands and ever-shifting priorities all while instilling confidence
- Proficiency working in a Mac environment, Google application, and Microsoft Office applications
- Sense of humor and a willingness to dive into new areas
- Paralegal certification or a JD (or equivalent) is a plus, but not required
- Legal operations experience is a plus, but not required
What the job involves
- Lyft is hiring an experienced, talented and energetic Contract Manager to join our Legal team
- Lyft is seeking a candidate who can help us achieve our goals by managing a high-volume commercial agreement negotiation and approval process
- Draft, evaluate, negotiate and execute commercial agreements
- Manage and respond to a high volume of daily contract-related inquiries
- Assist with audit requests, contract program reports, and contract searches
- Ability to understand when and how to escalate open items during negotiation terms with leadership, partners and key stakeholders
- Partner with and advise internal stakeholders on risk and other business matters related to contracts and partnership while establishing and maintaining relationships with internal stakeholders
- Shape and improve our legal processes that enable both legal and business functions to scale effectively
- Manage record-keeping for all contract-related correspondence and documentation
- Assist other teams with projects on an as-needed basis
Our take
Lyft has aimed for consistent growth, making sure to pitch itself as a more reliable and friendly ride-sharing option than its main competitor, Uber. Uber has a greater market share and operates globally, but Lyft hopes to compete by its focus on ride-sharing over Uber's more diversified business approach and as a more rider-friendly and greener alternative to Uber.
Operating only in the USA and Canada, Lyft is in a position of being less affected by global events than Uber but also more vulnerable to local conditions. As an example, while it doesn't face the regulatory hurdles around employment rights that Uber does, it is unable to balance out the cost of the unusually expensive US auto insurance across its operations.
In 2022, Lyft acquired PBSC Urban Solutions, a bike-share equipment and technology supplier, allowing Lyft to compete in new verticals and reaffirming its commitment to green transportation. It has also trialed and launched Lyft Assisted, where drivers help passengers from their door into the car to get to medical appointments. These developments chime well with Lyft's unique selling point as a friendlier and more environmentally aware ride-sharing app.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 14 rounds)
Jun 2018
$600m
LATE VC
Mar 2018
$200m
LATE VC
Total funding: $4.9bn
Company 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
- Family building benefits
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
John Zimmer
(Co-Founder)Originally an Analyst at Lehman Brothers, Zimmer then founded Zimride which was a private ridesharing company that pivoted into Lyft.
Logan Green
(Co-Founder)Founded Zimride, a private ridesharing company which later pivoted into Lyft.
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