Senior Product Manager, Decision Applications

Key Skills

Analytical and Problem solving, Data science techniques, Effective communication skills, Finance, Planning and organization, Statistics

Job Description

The Product Management team works closely with our engineers to guide products from conception to launch, and with our business partners to generate profitable revenue streams. You will be responsible for bringing exceptional strategic and analytical skills to define our strategy and lead our execution in this highly cross-functional technological area. Through your leadership, you’ll bridge technical, business, and operations worlds as you design technologies with creative and prolific engineers, leverage your technical expertise to identify setbacks and roadblocks within a project and generate solutions for resolving them quickly. You will have a bias for action to break down complex problems into steps that drive product development at Lyft speed.

The Senior Product Manager, Decision Applications is responsible for developing a suite of products to speed up our ability to observe, understand, decide and act on the factors affecting our highly dynamic marketplace. 

You’ll work with a team of Data Scientists, Engineers, Designers and Analysts to build a suite of products to improve our operational efficiency. This role requires a combination of business acumen, operations savvy as well as product design experience to achieve the outcomes we desire. This is also a high visibility role within the organization and requires excellent communication skills to succeed.

Responsibilities:

• Own Lyft’s products responsible for impact validation and competitive intelligence
• Improve executive decision making through access to data and metrics exploration tools
• Ensure accurate and reliable definitions, use cases and state of Lyft metrics
• Lead and align cross functional partners and teams: engineers, designers, analysts, marketers, business partners and operations to drive a shared vision
• Completely own your team's products, existing or new, from ideation, through development, launch, growth and maintenance
• Set goals for the team with clear success metrics that are well aligned with achieving success for your users and Lyft

Experience:

• Ideally academic degree or equivalent work experience in finance, statistics or a technical field
• Experience creating product roadmaps from conception to launch, driving product vision, defining go-to-market strategy, and leading design discussions
• Experience with data, including querying, aggregation, analysis, and visualization
• Advanced problem-solving skills ­with the ability to think creatively to resolve difficult situations with a proven record of follow-through on assigned tasks
• Strong cross-functional relationship building with high empathy to understand the needs of other businesses and priorities
• Ability to maintain composure in critical situations and clearly communicate with different audiences 
• Comfortable in a fast-­paced environment, subject to rapid change and innovation

Benefits:

• Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Access to a Health Care Savings Account
• In addition to provincial observed holidays, team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service 
• 4 Floating Holidays each calendar year prorated based off of date of hire
• 10 paid sick days per year regardless of province
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible