Product Design Intern, Lyft
Summer 2026
The expected base pay range for this position in the Toronto area is $40-$45/hour CAD
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3 days a week in office
Ride sharing company
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Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
The expected base pay range for this position in the Toronto area is $40-$45/hour CAD
More information about location
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
- Currently pursuing Bachelors or Masters in a Design related field (UX, UI, HCI), with a graduation date between December 2026 and Summer 2027 (required). For any candidates who are master's students who worked between their bachelor's and master's programs: candidates should also have less than 2 years of relevant full-time work experience
- Available during Summer 2026 for an internship in Toronto, Canada
- Experience designing on multiple platforms (iOS, Android, Mobile web, Desktop, etc) is a bonus!
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Expertise with Figma and other design and prototyping tools
- Excellence in design craft
- Ability to work with a low-ego, highly collaborative, cross-functional team
- Excited about working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
What the job involves
- As a Product Design intern at Lyft, you will be involved at every step of the product development process, from brainstorming broad ideas to ensuring design quality through launch
- Using your full range of interaction, visual, and product thinking skills, you will help create an experience for our product teams
- Our Design and Research teams live and breathe user-centered process to create the best possible end-to-end experience for millions of riders and drivers daily
- We can be scrappy when we need to be, though we are always focused on quality and impact
- As a qualified intern candidate, you'll partner with product managers, designers, researchers, engineers, marketers, and sales to define and create top-notch experiences to achieve our vision and business goals
- We’re looking for someone who is a great communicator, and is able to take a solution from idea to implementation
- You uphold a high quality bar and have a strong appreciation for the details
- Above all, you approach problems holistically and create elegantly simple solutions to multi-faceted problems
- Lyft fosters a collaborative environment in the office, so there's always a sharp mind eager to hear about your next idea
- Problem solve, think big, and explore divergent concepts/ideas while understanding how to converge and build iteratively towards your vision
- Plan strategically and think tactically as a partner with product and engineering to define the future of the team
- Influence the shape of the product with research and data while executing design work using high quality wireframes, mockups, user journeys, and prototypes
- Advocate for design by sharing your work and presenting to stakeholders, while being able to precisely articulate design rationale
- Inspire the entire team by bringing new ideas to the table
- Create a unified, end-to-end experience through close collaboration with team members from across the Product Design teams
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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