At Lyft, community is what we are and it’s what we do. It’s what makes us different. To create the best ride for all, we start in our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization where all team members are recognized for what they bring.

Lyft is looking for an innovative, empathic and visionary leader to co-create our next generation, multi-year inclusion and diversity strategy. This is a unique senior leadership opportunity to serve as a thought partner and trusted senior advisor across the business. We’re seeking a subject matter expert who will employ evidence-based best practices and research to drive results in a dynamic and evolving landscape. 

The ideal leader has experience collaborating with cross-functional partners to create and execute diversity hiring strategies from early talent to Director and above levels, in addition to deep experience implementing retention and advancement programs. We’re seeking a creative, bold executive who will challenge the status quo to help move beyond conventional thinking by introducing new methods of leveraging workforce data insights while testing business-focused experimental approaches

The Head of I&D will serve as a Lyft representative and external spokesperson.  They will represent Lyft with multiple external constituencies and participate in internal and external panels/presentations. Reporting to Lyft’s Chief People Officer, and they will manage a talented, high performing team of I&D professionals.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with business and functional leaders on the development of detailed strategies and plans that focus on employee, marketplace and community initiatives to increase Lyft’s performance and competitiveness
• Provide thought leadership, partnership and strategic counsel to the Vice President of Employee Relations, AA/EEO/ Inclusion and Diversity, People Leadership and Executive Leadership Teams to ensure the multi-year I&D goal strategy is achieving quarterly and annual key performance indicators 
• Operate as a contributing member of the Employee Relations, AA/EEO/I&D leadership team  
• Partner with our talent teams to co-create a dynamic recruiting strategy to build top of funnel pipelines to promote hiring talent from underrepresented backgrounds in Tech
• In partnership with the People Analytics team, create data driven strategic recommendations based on insights, including new and existing employee lifecycle data to inform how we attract, select, grow and retain talent
• Work with Employee Resource Group (ERG) Program Leads to maximize the Employee Resource Group contributions to Lyft’s short and long term workplace, marketplace and workforce strategies
• Provide leadership and oversight to the Diversity Business Partner Lead and their team to scale Diversity Business Action Plans across the organization 
• Oversee creation and implementation of inclusion education roadmap in partnership with learning and development partners
• Serve as the face of Lyft’s inclusion & diversity programs; build external relationships with peer I&D practitioners; be a trusted and respected voice of our I&D team with internal and external audiences 
• Influence the Lyft narrative through partnership with the Marketing and Communications teams to drive design and delivery of inclusive messaging and development of our annual I&D/Racial Equity public report

Experience:

• • 10+ yrs in People Teams/Human Resources/and or Business Leadership, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and/or organizational development and human capital consulting.  Experience with high growth company (Global experience is a plus)
  • 7+ yrs experience working with senior executives in client-facing or consulting role and has successfully developed and executed a holistic I&D strategy with impact driven results
  • Adapt, flex, and grasp business strategies; can quickly assess how to meet the leaders and business where they are on the I&D maturation model with the goal to influence better outcomes and decision making
  • Demonstrated track record of success in a cross functional, highly matrixed environment. Flexible and adaptable team member who can work with Tech, Business and Operations leaders. Demonstrated history of results impacting different lines of business.
  • Trusted, values based and inclusive people leader who prioritizes developing, advancing and empowering up-and-coming talent 
  • Excellent analytical, operational, and data driven skills and competencies; ability to use data, metrics and themes to think strategically and programmatically and create  compelling narratives and/ or insights to influence decision making
  • Subject matter expert on innovative next generation practices, programs and I&