Job Description

At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. We see cities evolve into safe and friendly living spaces, people engaging in neighborhood communities, where there are fewer personal cars and people are using shared and active transportation modes more.

Today, Lyft is a leader in micromobility and enables millions of rides every day in more than 200 cities through our ride-sharing, bike-sharing and scooter-sharing technology. Our Transit, Bikes & Scooters (TBS) engineering team developed the first automated bike share system in North America (Montreal’s Bixi), a system that has since evolved and now powers bike share in more than 50 cities around the world: Barcelona, Bogota, Boston, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Dubai, London, Madrid, Mexico City, Montreal, New York City, Portland, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco and Washington DC, to name a few. Many of the biggest bike share programs in the world!

Our TBS engineering team is growing rapidly, and we are looking for Technical Program Managers (TPM) to help us execute on these exciting programs. Come be part of the TBS TPM team 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. They are both strategic and tactical and do what it takes to successfully deliver key programs that have a material impact on the business. Our TBS TPMs are technically strong with software engineering, systems engineering or hardware experience. They are problem solvers who make things happen around them by setting clear goals and inspiring teams to deliver.

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 riders as well as our operating partners & clients
Partner with engineering, product, operations 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:

3+ years of Technical Program Management, Product Management or Engineering Management experience
2+ years of software engineering, data science, or systems engineering experience
Experience working with hardware and software integrations is a plus
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

Benefits:

Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
Mental health benefits
Family building benefits
In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have unlimited 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
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