Staff Product Manager, Pricing Optimization

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. We are looking for product managers who bring exceptional creative 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.

Pricing is fundamental to the Lyft marketplace and how riders and drivers experience Lyft. The mission of the Pricing Optimization team is to deliver the right set of prices and offers to improve the user experience and preference for the Lyft network and contribute to the growth and viability of the network. To accomplish this mission, the Pricing Optimization PM will:

• Build an adaptive pricing system to optimize across modes (Classic, Shared, Wait & Save, Priority, etc) based on their unique costs and supply consumption
• Design algorithms to maximize expected business and user outcomes given real-time marketplace dynamics
• Build systems that construct a portfolio of offers that encourages serviceable conversion
• Ensure the platform can calibrates in real-time to balance supply and demand

This individual should:

• Be highly analytical + technical
• Have a deep technical understanding of micro economics
• Have a technical background, ideally  Operations Research / Machine Learning / algorithmic background
• Have experience working in deep product domains - able to use data and experimentation to guide a large cross-functional team towards a long-term vision
• Be detail-oriented and able to dive deep into complex technical concepts, but also abstract them to executives, stakeholders, operations, and legal stakeholders
• Maintain a strong POV on what to build for our users, amidst many different stakeholders with different goals and world-class scientists + engineers on the team with their own opinions

Responsibilities:

• Align on business goals for optimization with executives and business teams (e.g. what are we optimizing for and how does this vary by market, product, use case)
• Define short-term and long-term strategy to achieve those goals
• Completely own your team's products, existing or new, from ideation, through development, to launch, growth and maintenance
• Work closely with partner teams to represent Pricing perspective on new initiatives, define requirements for Pricing team, and prioritize asks
• Lead and align cross-functional partners and team: engineers, scientists, analysts, business partners, operations to drive a shared vision

Experience:

• Minimum of 3+ years of product management experience
• Ideally Operations Research / Machine Learning / algorithmic background experience
• Passion for Lyft and what we are trying to achieve in sustainable urban transportation.
• Natural ability to make things happen around you. You manage project ambiguity, complexity and interdependencies in an organized and structured way.
• Ability to define and analyze metrics that inform the success of products
• Excellent judgment and thoughtfulness about the dynamics of a product ecosystem
• Strong communication skills and intuition for communication strategy at every level -- within teams, within the company, to users, to press, and other audiences
• Experience running A/B tests and using common statistical techniques to evaluate results. Experience leading post-launch optimizations including developing testing strategies
• Experience with data, including querying, aggregation, analysis, and visualization
• Ability to conceptualize, manage and prioritize multiple projects for stakeholders
• Detail-oriented with superior organizational skills -- balancing multiple projects, deadlines, and requests should be second nature to you

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 Ri