At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.
Lyft connects people to transportation to change the way we live and get around our communities. We are looking for product managers who bring exceptional creative, strategic, and analytical skills to drive forward a best in class product. Product management at Lyft leads the integration of engineering, data science, and design to achieve the company’s vision for reinventing transportation. We are looking for entrepreneurial and passionate Product Managers to innovate and execute across a rapidly growing, fast paced company and industry.
The Rider team is responsible for the Lyft consumer app that you know and love (we hope!), and spans the entire consumer journey across the request and purchase flows, search, pickups and drop offs, the post-match experience, and the in-trip experience. We're hiring a Product Manager to lead our Golden Path strategy, owning the core ride request flows. The ideal candidate combines deep user empathy with strong analytical skills, has a proven track record driving core consumer product strategy, and excels at cross-functional collaboration to deliver experiences that embody Lyft's mission.
Responsibilities:- Drive strategic alignment by analyzing Lyft's competitive landscape and market position to define an ambitious product vision that motivates teams and leadership. Set team goals and success metrics that directly support Lyft's mission while maximizing business impact through rigorous data analysis, competitive intelligence, and user research insights.
- Lead through uncharted product territory by analyzing fragmented data and emerging patterns to define strategic direction in ambiguous problem spaces, transforming incomplete insights and conflicting stakeholder priorities into clear product vision, actionable frameworks, and executable roadmaps.
- Deliver on this vision by setting your team's goals, success metrics and roadmap and collaborating extremely effectively across the company.
- Build a product roadmap to achieve your goals and lead a core team of engineers, designers, data scientists, and marketers to execute on it.
- Deeply understand the needs and motivations of your customers.
- Completely own your team’s products – existing or new – from ideation, through development, launch, growth, and maintenance.
- Clearly communicate roadmaps, priorities, experiments, and decisions across a wide spectrum of audiences from partner teams to executive levels.
- 4+ years in product management, product design or equivalent consultant experience with significant time spent leading consumer facing products.
- Natural leadership and ability to make things happen. You manage project ambiguity, complexity, and interdependencies in an organized and structured way, and you are able to define and analyze metrics that inform the success of your products.
- Excellent judgment and thoughtfulness about the dynamics of the product ecosystem.
- Strong communication skills and intuition for communication strategy at every level -- within teams, within the company, to users, and other audiences.
- Ability to conceptualize, prioritize and lead multiple projects for stakeholders.
- Detail oriented with superior organizational skills -- balancing multiple projects, deadlines, and requests should be second nature to you.
- Background in membership, subscription, or loyalty program development in consumer-facing products or services preferred
- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled
- Mental health benefits
- Family building benefits
- Child care and pet benefits
- 401(k) plan with company match to help save for your future
- In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
- Subsidized commuter benefits
- Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership
Lyft is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. 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, age, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Lyft offers. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid
The expected base pay range for this position in the San Francisco area is $148,000 - $185,000, not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.
Skills Required
- 4+ years in product management, product design, or equivalent consulting experience leading consumer-facing products.
- Proven experience driving core consumer product strategy and setting roadmaps, goals, and success metrics.
- Strong analytical skills: define and analyze metrics, perform rigorous data analysis and competitive intelligence.
- Demonstrated cross-functional leadership working with engineers, designers, data scientists, and marketing to deliver product.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for audiences from partner teams to executives.
- Ability to manage ambiguity, prioritize multiple projects, and maintain strong organizational attention to detail.
- Background in membership, subscription, or loyalty program development in consumer-facing products or services.
- Ability to work in-office on a hybrid schedule (expected in-office 3 days per week: Mon, Wed, Thu).
Lyft Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Lyft and has not been reviewed or approved by Lyft.
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Healthcare Strength — Corporate materials describe comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with added access to One Medical and mental-health support, indicating a solid core health offering. This breadth positions health benefits as a relative strength for full-time employees.
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Parental & Family Support — Company information highlights paid parental leave for new parents, with flexibility in how time can be taken. This signals strong family support within the corporate package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — U.S. salaried employees have unlimited paid time off alongside company holidays, and hourly roles receive structured PTO and sick time. These policies point to ample time-off availability compared with many roles.
Lyft Insights
What We Do
Lyft was founded in 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation, and is available to approximately 95 percent of the United States population as well as select cities in Canada. Lyft is committed to effecting positive change for our cities by offsetting carbon emissions from all rides, and by promoting transportation equity through shared rides, bikeshare systems, electric scooters, and public transit partnerships.
