Senior Technical Program Manager, Product & Rider Loyalty

Lyft Lyft · Consumer · New York, NY +1 · Central TPM

This role is for a Senior Technical Program Manager at Lyft, focusing on product initiatives within the Partnerships, Loyalty, and Payments organization. The TPM will drive cross-functional teams to deliver loyalty offerings, deepen customer engagement, and manage regulatory compliance. The role requires strong technical and analytical skills, leadership, planning, communication, and collaboration.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead cross-functional product initiatives from ideation through planning, execution, launch, and post-launch — ensuring alignment, accountability, and measurable outcomes at every phase.
  2. Provide hands-on support across all phases of the software development lifecycle, including project planning, resource allocation, progress tracking, risk mitigation, KPI ownership and measurement, and leadership communications.
  3. Partner with engineering, product, data science, design, operations, and other business functions to build highly collaborative teams and maintain clear communication across teams and stakeholders.
  4. Drive loyalty and retention product programs, working closely with product and engineering to define success metrics, prioritize roadmap investments, and accelerate delivery of features that deepen customer engagement and lifetime value.
  5. Lead regulatory and compliance-driven product initiatives, navigating ambiguity and coordinating across legal, policy, product, and engineering stakeholders.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience in a customer-facing product environment, leading cross-functional teams to deliver complex product and platform initiatives iteratively, with multiple dependencies and constraints, in a highly dynamic and agile environment.
  • Proven ability to operate effectively and autonomously across multiple teams in situations of extreme ambiguity, with only high-level direction.
  • Experience as an embedded TPM partnering within product engineering teams, with the flexibility to shift into generalist capacity supporting multiple teams concurrently.
  • Experience building roadmaps, release plans, and program plans with a thorough understanding of dependency management.
  • Able to communicate highly technical problems and solutions at all levels — from individual contributors to C-level executives.
  • Able to influence, negotiate, and inspire others in a matrixed environment; excellent organization, planning skills, and attention to detail.
  • Experience compiling and presenting business and technology options, backed by data and experimentation, to decision makers.

What the JD emphasized

  • regulatory and compliance-driven product initiatives