Head of Technology, Lyft
Media & Lyft Business
$350-375k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Ride sharing company
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Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$350-375k
+ Equity
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
- Proven experience owning a multi-product platform across diverse ecosystems and leading transformations from legacy systems to scalable solutions supporting millions of transactions per day
- At least 15+ years of experience building and leading full-stack tech teams in the adtech and B2B space, ideally in a complex, global, rapidly evolving environment. Highly entrepreneurial with a track record of building and scaling successful products and services from the ground up
- Experience in building shared solutions across multiple platforms for key domains like quote to cash, invoicing, and data warehousing
- Technical excellence in execution; able to effectively drive the roadmap for a large team of product managers, data scientists, engineers, and cross-functional partners in a matrixed organization
- Ability to craft a coherent product vision, multi-year strategy, and quarterly roadmap that your team and the business rally behind
- Strong business judgment; data-savvy, highly analytical, and understanding of the impact of business decisions on the P&L
- Expertise in the AdTech/programmatic ecosystem with extensive knowledge of its functions
- Experience with geo-location advertising technologies is a strong plus
- Consistent track record of linking product development opportunities and issues to broader business and operational goals, dealing with complex projects, and meeting conflicting prioritization and resourcing demands
- Strategic problem solver; demonstrated ability to identify important long-term trends and opportunities and translate those into meaningful insights, product, and engineering priorities
What the job involves
- The Head of Technology - Media & Lyft Business will play a pivotal role in shaping the product vision, roadmap, and technical execution for both Media, our emerging Ads business, and Lyft Business, our expanding B2B portfolio
- Reporting to the EVP of Media & Lyft Business, you will lead a diverse, full-stack team across product, engineering, data science, and user experience
- Your leadership will define a new category of mobility media while simultaneously driving innovation and growth in B2B transportation solutions
- This role offers a unique opportunity to build a sophisticated ads platform and develop next-generation B2B transportation use cases that connect drivers, riders, and brands in meaningful ways
- Strategic Planning and Vision: Develop and implement a strategic roadmap that integrates ad network dynamics, platform capabilities, and data-driven experimentation. Drive product innovation across the Lyft Media Owned and Operated, within the Tech Stack, into off network audience extensions, and more. In addition, lead innovation across multiple verticals inclusive of Healthcare, Business Travel, Commute, Education, Transit and many others while also identifying and scaling new B2B transportation use cases
- Technology Development and Innovation: Oversee the development and implementation of cutting-edge advertising and B2B technologies, creating scalable platforms that meet the needs of advertisers and enterprise clients
- Team Leadership, Recruitment, and Management: Recruit, lead, mentor, and manage a diverse team of ad tech and B2B professionals, fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performance work environment
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Lead cross-functional teams in designing, analyzing, and testing new monetization strategies to enhance engagement for riders and drivers at scale. Inspire aligned work toward company goals and help leaders prioritize to achieve shared results
- Budget Management: Manage the budget for the technology teams, ensuring efficient allocation of resources to meet business objectives
- Compliance and Privacy: Ensure all technologies and practices comply with relevant regulations and privacy standards
- Data Analysis and Optimization: Utilize data analytics to measure the effectiveness of technologies and campaigns, continuously optimizing for better performance and ROI
- Market Research and Trends: Stay informed on industry trends, emerging technologies, and competitive landscapes to keep the company at the forefront of innovation
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
Articles
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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