Senior Product Manager - Autonomous Vehicles (AV)

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. 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.

Autonomous vehicles are one of Lyft's most strategic and exciting product areas. As a Senior PM on the AV Platform team, you'll work directly with AV technology partners to build and scale Lyft's AV platform - ensuring seamless, high-quality rides that delight riders and represent Lyft's brand values. This role sits at the intersection of product, partnerships, and platform, requiring someone equally comfortable diving into technical integration details and navigating complex partner relationships.

Responsibilities:

Own the product strategy to launch, scale, and deepen select AV partnerships in new cities, aligning your team’s goals, success metrics, and roadmap to align with Lyft’s mission and autonomous vehicle strategy

Serve as the primary product counterpart for AV technology partners, deeply understanding their capabilities and finding solutions that balance the needs of riders, partners, and Lyft

Drive a customer obsessed and learning culture by continuously shipping and iterating on products via user research, market research, data analysis, & experimentation

Be a valued collaborator for business development, strategic and other product partners - finding common ground that meets the needs of all parties

Lead a cross-functional pod of engineers, designers, data scientists, legal, policy, and business stakeholders - setting context, maintaining momentum, and building tools and processes to keep the team aligned

Collaborate across the company and communicate roadmaps, priorities, and decisions clearly to audiences ranging from partner teams to executive levels

Leverage AI tools and emerging technology to accelerate your team's workflows and enhance the products you build

Experience:

5+ years of product management experience, with significant time spent on consumer-facing or platform products

Track record of building and shipping 0-to-1 products with measurable user and business impact in ambiguous, fast-moving environments

Experience navigating complex cross-functional environments where you influence without direct authority

Strong business judgment, with the ability to balance end-consumer and partner needs

Data fluency - you define and analyze metrics that inform the success of your products, and you're comfortable running and interpreting quantitative analysis and experiments

Strong communication skills across audiences and levels, and experience working with external technical partners and senior leadership

Customer obsessed - strong user empathy and experience in the customer discovery and product development process

Familiarity with the operational complexity of physical-world services — where software launches intersect with on-the-ground readiness

Ideally have experience with platform products, technical integrations, or partnership-heavy environments

Bonus: familiarity with autonomous vehicles, developer platforms, mobility, or marketplace dynamics

Benefits:

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 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.