Analytics Lead, Marketplace Strategy

Lyft Lyft · Consumer · San Francisco, CA · North America Rideshare Marketing

Lyft is seeking an Analytics Lead for their Marketplace Strategy team. This role will focus on driving deep-dive business and product analyses, identifying market dynamics, and communicating key trends to senior leadership. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical problem-solving skills, effective communication, and the ability to influence business strategy and product roadmaps.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop hypotheses and analytical frameworks for understanding market dynamics and provide recommendations to senior leadership.
  2. Influence business strategy and product roadmaps through insightful analytics and business modeling. Be an analytical thought leader.
  3. Analyze marketplace product & marketplace trends and provide cross-functional teams with actionable insights on improvements and problem areas.
  4. Evaluating areas of improvement and business growth opportunities within our business.
  5. Work in a fast-paced environment and effectively manage time to deliver business impact in a time-efficient manner

Skills

Required

  • SQL
  • data visualization tools
  • strategic thinking
  • analytical problem solving skills
  • written and verbal communication skills
  • product and user experience sense
  • organization, planning skills, and attention to detail

Nice to have

  • management consulting
  • strategic data science/analytics roles in a technology company
  • equivalent analytical role in a high growth startup
  • leading high visibility projects
  • influencing others in a cross-functional team environment
  • communicating with and presenting to senior leaders
  • data storytelling
  • building decision making frameworks
  • understand business issues
  • analyze large amounts of data
  • draw actionable conclusions
  • Entrepreneurial self-starter
  • take ownership
  • look for opportunities
  • do whatever it takes to drive results
  • break down large datasets
  • synthesize inputs from multiple sources
  • think strategically about complex and unstructured business problems
  • leading to recommendations and action plans
  • craft a compelling story
  • concisely present recommendations
  • manage, influence, negotiate, and inspire others
  • fast-moving environment

What the JD emphasized

  • analytical problem solving skills
  • effective communication skills
  • proactively takes ownership