Strategic Partner Manager, Lyft
$118-147.5k
Ride sharing company
Open for applications
Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$118-147.5k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.
Role
Who you are
- You are passionate about consumer technology, business strategy, building new opportunities, and growing relationships, and will be on the leading edge of helping to shape Lyft’s strategic priorities and the future of transportation
- 6+ years of business development, partner management, strategy and/or program management experience
- Strong understanding and interest in Lyft’s products and competitive landscape
- Experience with 2-sided marketplaces
- High degree of comfort working with product and technical teams. Technical knowledge of product integrations a plus
- Highly analytical, strategic thinker and data driven, but also a creative problem solver
- Ability to make thoughtful, actionable recommendations under minimal structure, and quickly build consensus with internal and external stakeholders
- Collegial, high energy, and persistent personality, and excellent interpersonal and presentation skills
- Great sense of humor
What the job involves
- Lyft is looking for a Strategic Partner Manager to launch, manage, and scale key partnerships for Lyft in support of our Rideshare line of business
- These partnerships spread across a number of verticals and product areas with a focus on Lyft’s Rider and Pink membership program
- Reporting to the Senior Partner Manager for Travel & Rewards and Pay, you will join a team that accelerates growth and drives revenue for the largest line of business
- Launch, manage, and grow strategic partners to align with and exceed Lyft’s company objectives, product priorities and key business metrics
- Leverage data and insights to drive strategy recommendations and partner initiatives
- Build and share learnings and best practices based on partner performance and effectiveness
- Scale partnership programs that drive incremental rides, bookings, market share, preference, and membership growth
- Develop and maintain cross functional relationships across the company, partnering independently and proactively with Product, Legal, Marketing, FP&A, Science and other key internal partners
- Act as the day to day liaison between Lyft and partner organizations
- Own all financial and analytics reporting for your strategic segment, participating in regular business reviews with leadership and stakeholders
- Drive quarterly business reviews with partners to align on upcoming opportunities
- Act as a primary POC for strategic partners internally to ensure partner support and satisfaction
- Represent partners internally and Lyft externally with partners’ management teams and at industry events
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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