Litigation & Employment Counsel, Lyft
Labor
$176-220k
Pay range shown is for applicants residing in San Francisco
3 days a week in office
Ride sharing company
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Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$176-220k
Pay range shown is for applicants residing in San Francisco
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.
Role
Who you are
- Lyft is looking for a bright, energetic, and self-motivated attorney with at least 5 years of labor and employment litigation experience
- The successful candidate will be entrepreneurial and comfortable working in an ambiguous, quickly-changing and fast-paced environment
- 5+ years of experience practicing in-house or at a large or mid-size law firm
- J.D. from a top-tier law school
- Member of the California or New York bar
- Preference is given to candidates with prior in-house experience and/or experience advising gig economy clients as outside counsel
- Experience litigating a wide variety of labor & employment matters, including complex litigation
- Experience responding to grievances, unfair labor practices, data and information requests, and agency charges
- Experience negotiating and/ or implementing collective bargaining agreements
- Excellent problem-solving capabilities, judgment, communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills
- Experience providing labor advice and counseling
- Ability to operate autonomously while being a team player who brings a positive attitude to the workplace
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, rapidly-evolving workplace
- Ability to think quickly on your feet, convey grace under pressure, and simultaneously manage complex workloads, multiple client demands, and shifting priorities
What the job involves
- You will assist with a wide variety of labor and employment matters that are core to the company’s business and growth, and you will work extensively across functions to help craft solutions to the novel legal challenges Lyft faces every day
- You will report directly to the Senior Director, Litigation & Employment. This is a hybrid position requiring 3 days a week in person at a Lyft’s SF or NYC offices
- Responsibility — meaning, hands-on work, not just supervising outside counsel — for a wide variety of litigation and pre-litigation matters in state and federal courts and administrative forums, including matters involving labor and worker classification issues
- Ability to manage high-volume portfolios that could encompass a variety of labor & employment matters, including: worker grievances; unfair labor practices; court litigation; arbitration matters; administrative audits; and agency charges
- Collaborate closely with fellow Legal Team members and outside counsel to develop and carry out labor strategy with an eye toward impact on Lyft’s broader business objectives, and ensure compliance with labor agreements
- Manage outside counsel, including tactical guidance, staffing, case management, budgeting, and alignment with Lyft’s broader legal strategy
- Proactively approach all aspects of worker classification litigation, including pre-litigation, discovery, motion practice, witness preparation, and trial and appellate strategies
- Provide assistance and support to Lyft’s Legal Team members, and work closely with other teams, such as Finance, Product, Safety & Customer Care, and Policy to provide cross-functional legal advice
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 trialled 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, whilst the acquisition of European competitor Freenow could add 6 million new riders to its platform in 2026.
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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