At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.

Lyft connects people to transportation to change the way we live and get around our communities. Lyft’s engineering team is growing rapidly, and we are looking for Technical Program Managers to help us scale. Come be part of a new team at Lyft focused on enabling and empowering engineering teams to deliver at scale.

Technical Program Managers at Lyft drive cross-functional initiatives, leveraging strong leadership, planning, communication, and collaboration skills. Our TPMs are technically strong with software engineering or systems engineering experience. They are problem solvers who make things happen around them by setting clear goals and inspiring teams to deliver. TPMs at Lyft are both strategic and tactical and do what it takes to successfully deliver key programs that have a material impact on the business.

The individual in this role will be responsible for working with Lyft's Risk Tech Product Engineering teams (core product), and the Risk Management & Actuarial teams. Insurance is a horizontal platform that impacts every initiative and vertical, so this individual will also need to work with partner teams across the entire Lyft Org to deliver large, impactful cross-functional programs.

Responsibilities:

• Lead iterative delivery of strategic cross-functional initiatives from concept to ship, through focus, transparency, communication, visibility, and accountability
• Leverage deep technical expertise with large-scale, distributed 24x7 production systems to build comprehensive plans, to identify risks, and to ensure smooth project launches with a goal of delighting our passengers and drivers
• Partner with engineering, product, and business leadership to build highly collaborative teams and to enhance communication across teams and stakeholders
• Identify and resolve systemic issues impacting Lyft engineering and aggressively take action to resolve

Experience:

• Experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver complex projects iteratively with multiple dependencies and constraints, in a highly dynamic and agile environment
• Proven ability to operate effectively and autonomously across multiple teams in situations of extreme ambiguity, with only high-level direction
• Experience building roadmaps, release plans, project plans with a thorough understanding of dependency management
• Able to communicate highly technical problems and solutions at all levels from engineer to partner to C-level executives
• Able to influence, negotiate and inspire others in a matrixed environment Excellent organization, planning skills, and attention to detail
• Experience delivering projects in large-scale, distributed production systems and 24x7 production operations
• Experience compiling and presenting business & technology options, backed by data & experimentation, to decision makers
• At least two years of software engineering, data science, or systems engineering experience  

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

Lyft is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. 

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