Product Manager, Lyft

Road Safety & Telematics

$124-155k

Mid and Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

3+ days a week in office

Lyft

Ride sharing company

Job no longer available

Lyft

Ride sharing company

1001+ employees

B2CTravelTransportMobilityRidesharing

Job no longer available

$124-155k

Mid and Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

3+ days a week in office

1001+ employees

B2CTravelTransportMobilityRidesharing

Company mission

To improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.

Role

Who you are

  • Minimum of 4 years of product management or relevant product experience
  • An academic background in Engineering, Computer Science, or related science discipline
  • Have a data driven mindset and are comfortable working with large data sets and technical internal tools
  • Detail oriented with superior organizational skills -- balancing multiple projects, deadlines, and requests should be second nature to you
  • History of effectively working cross functionally and bridging gaps with multiple teams
  • Be able to define and analyze metrics that inform the success of products
  • Strong communication skills and intuition for communication strategy at every level -- within teams, within the company, to users, to press, and other audiences
  • Experience leading post-launch optimizations including developing testing strategies

Desirable

  • Experience building consumer software or hardware technology leveraging sensor data such as GPS, accelerometer, and other hardware experiences
  • Experience implementing behavioral and habit changing products or services
  • Experience with Insurance Products or working closely with Insurance partners

What the job involves

  • As the Product Manager for Road Safety and Telematics you’ll be thinking about our overall process for using ML models to develop products that empower safer driving on our platform
  • This includes the monitoring and collecting of driving signals in each ride to understand how smooth and safe they are
  • Using this data, you will create new road safety products that consider driver motivations and needs
  • You will lead the development of new telematics models that assess the company's total exposure to driving risk in partnership with our claims, data science and actuary teams
  • The product manager will develop and execute a long-term vision that will establish Lyft, its systems, and capabilities, as the industry leader in telematics and road safety
  • Lead the long-term vision, strategy, and product execution for the end to end road safety and telematics process including raw data collection, ML modeling, and building insightful products that help our drivers
  • Integrate the latest ML, AI, and LLM tools into the overall process utilizing our large datasets to drive improvements for the entire telematics platform
  • Focus on enabling key use cases, driving impact and balancing technical considerations
  • Translate customer and internal-user needs into clear, well-defined functional and technical requirements backed by data analysis and deep understanding of the risk tech landscape
  • Execute on the roadmap with proper OKRs and project tracking
  • Communicate roadmaps, priorities and decisions across a wide spectrum of audiences from partner teams to executive levels
  • Ensure that key leadership & stakeholders are aligned on proper priorities, opportunities and progress on key initiatives

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.

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-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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