Lyft The Senior Product Manager leads the roadmap and strategy for applied ML and AI products within the Rider Application at Lyft. This role defines objectives, tracks KPIs, and collaborates with data science and engineering teams.
Responsibilities
Define, own and be responsible for the roadmap of applied ML and AI products in every screen of the Rider Application, through the Rider conversion funnel
Define, track and periodically report on metrics and KPIs of the team, being directly responsible for financial outcomes that the team drives
Define the objective function to be maximized / minimized throughout the rider app, taking into account short term, long term and stakeholder teams’ objectives (Loyalty, Partnership, Ads, Business, AV, Safety, Luxury etc)
Work with data science to define, measure and predict long term value of Riders
Identify how to cold start new launches of region, modes and features in order to effectively drive adoption while still maintaining algorithm performance
Work in a cross functional team building a unified Rider profile vision by identifying, collecting and organizing information about Riders to be used for ML and AI training
Write detailed product requirements, strategy and planning documents aimed at both technical and non technical audiences to drive alignment on product development, set expectations on delivery of milestones and create predictable outcomes for workstreams
Design, run and analyze experiments and ongoing evaluation systems to monitor model performance and evaluate improvements
Present to non technical leadership on the progress of the team monthly, showcasing progress and highlighting roadblocks
Experience driving technically complex machine learning (ML) products end to end, from inception, to launch with significant user adoption, to sunset. Ideally the applications are consumer facing and involve UI interactions with users
Experience in managing (from product perspective) a team of software engineers, tracking the progress towards a roadmap through appropriate tools (Jira, Linear, Spreadsheets, Clickup etc)
Experience with user facing large scale experimentation (optimizely, statsig, eppo etc), knowing concepts such as power and statistical significance
