Lyft Staff Product Manager I for Base Pricing at Lyft owning the vision and roadmap for base price setting systems. Drives optimization of pricing engines and collaboration with cross-functional teams to improve marketplace pricing.
Responsibilities
As the Staff Product Manager for Base Pricing, you will own the vision and roadmap for how Lyft sets base prices, and define the success metrics that measure it. That includes:
Determining the optimal granularity at which Lyft sets base prices (e.g., by time, location, and type of trip)
Improving how our base price optimization engine works with downstream dynamic pricing systems to better respond to real-time market conditions
Re-evaluating how costs to fulfill a ride impact prices
Jointly optimizing prices across ride types, so that standard, alternative modes, and scheduled rides are priced as one portfolio
Making our impact estimation models accurate and trusted by market management teams
Evolving base pricing to function in a hybrid network with autonomous vehicles
Work closely with cross-functional stakeholders (engineers, scientists, analysts), and partner teams (Driver Earnings, Verticals, Market Management) to align on a shared vision, define requirements, and prioritize inbound requests.
Communicate roadmaps, experiment results, and pricing decisions clearly to audiences from partner teams up to Lyft's executive team.
5+ years of product management or relevant experience, with significant time spent on algorithmic, data-driven, pricing, or marketplace products
A deep technical understanding of microeconomics, and ideally a background in Operations Research, Econometrics, Machine Learning, or algorithmic systems
Experience owning pricing, revenue management, or other economic levers with direct P&L impact; experience with price optimization, elasticity modeling, or cost modeling is a strong plus
