Senior Product Manager - Autonomous Vehicles (av)

Lyft Lyft · Consumer · San Francisco, CA · AV & Fleet Operations

Senior Product Manager for Lyft's Autonomous Vehicles (AV) Platform team. This role focuses on building and scaling the AV platform through strategic partnerships, requiring a blend of technical integration, partner relationship management, and customer focus. The role involves owning product strategy, serving as a key partner liaison, driving product iteration, and leading cross-functional teams. Familiarity with AI tools is mentioned as a way to accelerate workflows.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the product strategy to launch, scale, and deepen select AV partnerships in new cities, aligning your team’s goals, success metrics, and roadmap to align with Lyft’s mission and autonomous vehicle strategy
  2. Serve as the primary product counterpart for AV technology partners, deeply understanding their capabilities and finding solutions that balance the needs of riders, partners, and Lyft
  3. Drive a customer obsessed and learning culture by continuously shipping and iterating on products via user research, market research, data analysis, & experimentation
  4. Be a valued collaborator for business development, strategic and other product partners - finding common ground that meets the needs of all parties
  5. Lead a cross-functional pod of engineers, designers, data scientists, legal, policy, and business stakeholders - setting context, maintaining momentum, and building tools and processes to keep the team aligned

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of product management experience
  • significant time spent on consumer-facing or platform products
  • Track record of building and shipping 0-to-1 products with measurable user and business impact
  • Experience navigating complex cross-functional environments where you influence without direct authority
  • Strong business judgment
  • Data fluency
  • Strong communication skills across audiences and levels
  • experience working with external technical partners and senior leadership
  • Customer obsessed
  • Familiarity with the operational complexity of physical-world services

Nice to have

  • experience with platform products
  • technical integrations
  • partnership-heavy environments
  • familiarity with autonomous vehicles
  • developer platforms
  • mobility
  • marketplace dynamics

What the JD emphasized

  • building and shipping 0-to-1 products
  • ambiguous, fast-moving environments
  • influence without direct authority
  • technical partners
  • autonomous vehicles