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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 Bikes & Scooters is the operator of 10 major bikeshare programs including CitiBike in NYC and Divvy in Chicago, as well as 6 major scooter-share programs, all across the United States. We’re looking for an Asset Security Specialist on our Central Operations team who wants to protect the micro-mobility revolution by managing the risk of theft and loss across our local markets and products.
We’re looking for an analytically-driven operator to contribute to asset security related applications. This person is customer-focused, detail-oriented, and operationally-savvy. This individual is experienced in synthesizing analytical findings with anecdotal reports to formulate, recommend, and implement action plans. The individual will work closely with operations teams as the primary point of contact for all novel vectors of loss. This person will also work closely with Product Managers, Data Scientists and Engineers in the prioritization and implementation phases of risk mitigation.
Responsibilities:
- Manage the day-to-day implementation of loss prevention strategies across 6 product lines and 14+ cities
- Collect and investigate reports of novel theft and loss vectors, and turn them into workable problem sets for solution architecting
- Evaluate loss prevention strategies during pilot periods to measure effectiveness
- Collaborate with Product Management, Data Science, and Engineering to resolve user identity issues and other escalations
- Deliver enhancements to Lyft theft and loss detection and mitigation systems, and communicate and prioritize product development in collaboration with product management and engineering
- Report overall status, primary business metrics, key issues, and solution recommendations and plans to management and cross-functional partners
- Up to 25% travel to our local markets to collaborate, train, and conduct investigations
Experience:
- 2-3+ years of experience across micro-mobility, logistics, e-commerce, operations, consulting or loss prevention industries. Fraud or intelligence experience is preferred
- Experience with Excel or Google Sheets required. Proficiency with SQL is strongly preferred
- Expertise in operations, intelligence, and project management
- Have a bias towards action in resolving issues and perform in a high-energy, fast-paced environment
- Be extremely focused on data and analytics to solve problems and have a track record of driving results through continuous improvement
- Thrive in ambiguity and be open to feedback
- Tenacity to keep issues top of mind for all stakeholders and conviction to make the right decisions
- History of effectively working with multiple teams to build new capability and implement projects
- Strong time management skills
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.
As a Customer Experience Associate, you will be the voice of Lyft, fielding escalations from riders on social media, phone, and email. The ideal candidate is someone who is passionate about customer experience and knows what it means to go above and beyond as an advocate for the Lyft community. You must be calm in the face of a storm, caring and compassionate, and is able to have a strong sense of empathy in difficult situations. Our team consists of Associates supporting customers across phone, email and social media.
Responsibilities:
- Create an exceptional, personalized service experience for Lyft users
- Handle escalations for our riders and provide internal support for our teams and partners
- Provide friendly, timely support to Lyft riders via phone, email and social media
- Troubleshoot user problems with the Lyft app
- Document all support contacts in a CRM system
- Make recommendations based on feature requests and bugs reported by users
- Be a community advocate for Lyft
Experience:
- 1+ years experience in customer service or call center a plus, but not mandatory
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- Flexible schedule, willing to work off hours and weekends.
- Basic knowledge of Twitter and Facebook platforms
- Computer proficiency required
- Friendly and enthusiastic, social personality
- Dependable and punctual with time management skills
- Strong writing skills and impeccable attention to detail
- Demonstrates empathy and the ability to take initiative on doing the right thing for the customer
- Advanced problem-solving skills with the ability to think creatively to resolve difficult situations
- Ability to quickly learn web-based user support applications
- Comfortable in a fast-paced environment, subject to rapid change and uncertainty
- High level of comfort and familiarity with smartphone applications (iPhone and Android)
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 is looking for a permanent full-time technical communications professional to join the Lyft Transit, Bikes & Scooters team. You will work the Lyft Bikes & Scooters markets to steward operational communications excellence in the maintenance and operations of rideables and system equipment across our systems.
You will produce high-quality documentation for procedures, processes and product materials to help contribute effectively to the design and deployment of high-tech bike share and scooter share systems. You will be a contributing member of our technical communications team who collaborates daily with operational teams, product teams, developers, engineers, managers and other adjunct teams.
If you share our vision for transportation that empowers local communities, reduces our environmental footprint and brings people together, we’d love to meet you!
This position can be based in New York City, Chicago or San Francisco.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain support content for a variety of bikes and scooters operational documentation, including standard operating procedures (SOP), user guides, training and reference material
- Conduct interviews with subject matter experts and research material for various operational projects
- Document management, editing, and proofreading
- Contribute to information architecture design
- Contribute to the maintenance of the operational knowledge base
Experience:
- 4+ years of experience in technical communications
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, or a combination of training and equivalent work experience in a technology industry (Technical Writing, Communications, Engineering, Computer Science, or other fields)
- Comfortable with publishing content using DITA-XML framework (or other structured authoring principles), and using associated XML authoring tools (Oxygen XML, DITA CCMS, etc)
- Proficient with Adobe CS Suite, MS Office, Google Office Suite, and/or other documentation tools
- Excellent analytical and conceptualization skills
- Capable of working concurrently on multiple projects with tight deadlines
- Demonstrates ability to convey complex technical issues to a wide-array of audiences
- Good understanding of user experience principles
Portfolio:
Be prepared to show samples of your writing and/or other pertinent work
Lyft’s Safety Insights & Analytics team is responsible for enabling the end-to-end reporting of safety incidents that happen on Lyft’s platform. In addition to monitoring the accuracy and effectiveness of Lyft’s Support team’s ability to handle safety incidents, the Safety I&A team also oversees the classification systems used to categorize safety incidents, monitors and enables secondary review of safety issues, and oversees Lyft’s ongoing efforts to refine, improve, and consolidate the data Lyft uses to enable downstream and public safety reporting.
As an analyst on the Safety I&A team, you will partner with stakeholders across Safety Support, Product, Compliance, and Risk. You will leverage your data analysis, visualization, system design, and communication skills to deliver targeted reporting, actionable insights, and system improvements to stakeholders who rely on safety data. The ideal candidate is a critical thinker and problem solver who can build strong relationships with different teams, and who is relentlessly focused on improving the systems and reporting that help Lyft improve safety on its platform.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with teams across Lyft to identify and prioritize improvements to safety data capture, classification, and reporting
- Define and prioritize Lyft’s safety data needs and partner with internal and external team members to implement new safety processes
- Report on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) connected to Lyft’s ability to correctly classify, capture, track, and audit various safety workflows throughout its Support, Product, and Compliance teams
- Synthesize insights from a variety of both quantitative and qualitative data sources to provide a complete, specific, and actionable picture of the factors impacting Lyft’s ability to understand its safety processes
- Partner cross-functionally to ensure data and systems decisions are executed with the customer, associate, and business in mind
- Drive the design, implementation, and monitoring of new systems and data structures relating to safety data & reporting. Translate complex business needs into clear data structure requirements – and build out those requirements to enable intuitive data visualization
- Build and automate data monitoring capabilities to proactively identify anomalous trends and data quality issues
- Resourceful and able to work autonomously and with minimal direct supervision
Your Experience & Skills:
- 3+ years of on the job data analysis experience with a proven ability to influence outcomes
- Strong proficiency in at least one of the SQL languages (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SqlServer, Oracle): able to make sense out of a set of large, raw events tables.
- Proven ability to develop technical skillset independently to support business needs
- Exceptional communication (listening, written, and oral) skills with the ability to present findings & recommendations targeted to the audience in question
- Proven ability to translate unstructured business problems into clearly defined requirements
- Demonstrates a process improvement mindset by creating systems, documentation & tools in order to drive long-term positive change
- Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships and trust across functions and work collaboratively
- A passion for process improvement and using data to improve safety at Lyft
- Alignment with Lyft’s Guide to Making it Happen
- Bonus Points: Experience with or motivation to learn a workflow authoring system like Airflow
Even better:
- Prior experience in a customer-facing role or supporting customer-facing teams
- Experience using and administering data visualization tools such as Looker or Tableau
- Experience building new data tables using ETL logic
- Experience transforming data & automating processes using a scripting language like Python
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 is seeking a Design Program Manager to support our product design teams. Design Program Managers are strategic partners with the design leads, leading and driving the design work forward every day. You’re passionate about design, and will help develop process and structure around projects within and around the design organization to make it as effective as possible. You will work across teams to shepherd and manage the delivery of design and customer experiences to completion. A creative approach to the operational aspects is your strength, along with strategic thinking and planning. You thrive in taking complexities to a simple, actionable level across the greater design team, and provide transparency into the design process. You’re savvy at connecting the dots, being a trusted partner to cross functional peers at Lyft. You’ll be a leader within the design organization and an advocate for the Product Design team and the design process.
Responsibilities:
- Understand the core features and product inside out, and work with the team to help set design goals and trajectory
- Shape, drive and document processes and tools for effective team workflows and collaboration
- Support and elevate the quality of the design work
- Work directly with a multidisciplinary team of designers, researchers, prototypers and animators
- Collaborate, communicate, and negotiate with product managers, engineers and stakeholders at all levels across the organization
- Own and drive the design project lifecycle from strategic planning, scheduling, requirements gathering, design reviews, delivery and implementation to launch
- Scope and define projects strategically with cross functional partners and design team
- Lead quarterly planning and prioritization with cross functional teams, balancing multiple inputs and needs
- Provide up to date visibility into current projects, team utilization, project health and priorities
- Participate in and facilitate design reviews, prep, and post-mortems
- Collaborate with program management team and design leads with resourcing and team allocation
- Manage deliverables in an accurate and timely fashion
Experience:
- 4+ years of experience working in relevant design industry – product design and/or consultancies
- Passion for user experience and design
- Proven ability to manage workflows, project plans and ship high quality design
- A ‘big picture’ approach in helping establish, support, and engage teams, while still managing the details
- Great communication skills, written and verbal, with a diverse group of stakeholders
- Attention to detail with borderline obsessive organizational skills
- Relevant understanding and appreciation of current product design processes and systems
- Comfortable with ambiguity and malleable workflows
- Strong conflict resolution and negotiation skills
- Resilience and equanimity in dealing with change, challenges and adversity
- Proactive in seeking opportunities to improve and expand team, personal skills and experience
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’s industrial design team is seeking a passionate Industrial Designer to help expand our capabilities. As an Industrial Designer, you are expected to have a deep knowledge of the entire industrial design process from conceptualization, to design strategy, to project management, and manufacturing support. You will be an expert contributor, innovating and pushing the Industrial Design, Brand, and Product vision beyond the competition. This person will be expected to successfully guide products all the way to production.
Our Industrial Designers practice their craft at the highest level and have the ability to juggle full design and development programs with smaller design initiatives. You should possess ample ideation and innovation skills to envision and clearly articulate the story of the next-generation product line.
Lyft Industrial Design is a new division working on a broad variety of hardware efforts such as micro-mobility and rideshare. You will be expected to roll up your sleeves and hustle. We are moving fast, innovating, and operating with ambiguity. You should be self motivated and flexible to lend a hand as new obstacles arise. Please make sure your portfolio is included with your application.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with cross-functional teams to successfully visualize concepts and translate them into feasible solutions, all while balancing innovation with functional requirements and on-brand design
- Conceptualize aesthetic and functional solutions while integrating insights
- Lead design reviews and manage design programs
- Work with research specialists to produce user-centric and market-appropriate concepts
- Work closely with executives and the leadership team on key strategic initiatives
- Advocate for design by sharing your work and presenting cross-functionally, while being able to precisely articulate design rationale
- Inspire the entire team (including your cross-functional) partners by bringing new ideas to the table
- Create a unified, end-to-end experience through close collaboration with engineers on innovative design solution that can be produced at scale
Experience:
- 2-4 years of professional experience as an Industrial Designer
- Proven track record of design excellence as reflected in awards or industry recognition
- Demonstrated design and development of products taken to market
- Broad-based experience designing product for multiple categories
- Expertise in design for manufacturing
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills; comfortable with communicating and interacting effectively at all levels within the organization, including senior management, customers, partners and suppliers
- Highly proficient with design tools (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.)
- Expert in CAD and 3D photo-rendering
- Excellence in design craft
- Ability to work with a low-ego, highly collaborative, cross-functional team
- Excited about working in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment
- Design studio expertise preferred
At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start in our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.
As a product designer at Lyft, you will be involved at every step of product development, from brainstorming broad ideas to ensure design quality through launch. Using your full range of interaction, visual, and product thinking skills, you will lead and own an experience for our product teams.
In a lot of ways we function as a startup, meaning we all work closely and collaboratively across organizations to align on product vision and ship product. Our Design and Research teams live and breathe user-centered process to create the best possible, end-to-end, experience for millions of Passengers and Drivers daily. We can be scrappy when we need to be, though we are always focused on quality and influence.
As a qualified candidate, you have a track record of leading projects to successful outcomes for users and the business. You are a strong cross-functional partner, great communicator, and are able to take a solution from idea to implementation. You uphold a high quality bar and have a strong appreciation for the details. Above all, you approach problems holistically and create elegantly simple solutions to multi-faceted problems.
Responsibilities:
- Problem solve, think big, and explore divergent concepts/ideas while understanding how to converge and build iteratively towards your vision
- Plan strategically and think tactically as a partner with product and engineering to define the future of the team
- Influence the shape of the product with research and data while executing design work using high quality wireframes, mockups, user journeys, and cross-platform interactive prototypes
- Advocate for design by sharing your work and presenting cross-functionally, while being able to precisely articulate design rationale
- Inspire the entire team (including your cross-functional) partners by bringing new ideas to the table
- Create a unified, end-to-end experience through close collaboration with team members from across the Product and Marketing Design Teams
Experience:
- 4+ years of experience working in UX, UI, HCI related field with experience working on mobile
- Experience designing on multiple platforms (iOS, Android, Mobile web, Desktop, etc)
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Highly proficient with design tools (Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.)
- Highly proficient with interactive prototyping tools (Framer, Principle, Origami, Invision Studio, etc.)
- Excellence in design craft
- Ability to work with a low-ego, highly collaborative, cross-functional team
- Excited about working in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment
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 Ridership Program
Lyft is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
Until further notice, Lyft employees working in the United States in any capacity (on a daily or hybrid schedule or as a visitor) are required to provide proof of full vaccination against COVID-19. Employees are considered fully vaccinated two weeks after completion of the entire recommended series of vaccination (usually one or two doses) with a vaccine authorized to prevent COVID-19 by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA), including by way of an emergency use authorization. Lyft will maintain records associated with your vaccination history in a way that is compliant with all relevant Federal, state and local laws. Exceptions to this requirement are employees who require religious or medical exemption as approved through Lyft’s accommodations process.