Senior Technical Program Manager, Central

San Francisco, CA

Central TPM

About the Role

At Lyft in the Transportation space, Connecting cities, one ride at a time, for a more equitable future..

<p>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.</p>

<p>The Central TPM team drives Lyft’s highest-impact product and technology initiatives from concept to launch. Central TPMs are technically strong program leaders who operate from a product and engineering point of view and bridge the gap to other functions, such as comms, marketing, BD, support, and external partners, ensuring each is a core partner in the program.</p>

<p>They are both strategic and tactical, and they do what it takes to deliver top-priority programs that have a material impact on the business, from new product launches to acquisitions and strategic partnerships.</p>

<h2><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h2>

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<li>Co-own program strategy with Product and Engineering, and influence company strategy, technical architecture, and roadmap tradeoffs.</li>

<li>Lead end-to-end delivery of Lyft’s top-priority cross-functional initiatives from concept to launch, with clear goals, milestones, and definition of done.</li>

<li>Develop and execute integration roadmaps, strategies, and playbooks for acquisitions and strategic partnerships.</li>

<li>Define how the program runs, including roles and decision rights, escalation paths, and communication plan, and hold workstream owners accountable.</li>

<li>Anticipate risks early, drive mitigation plans, and aggressively resolve systemic issues blocking delivery.</li>

<li>Communicate with transparency at every level, from engineers to the C-suite, sharing progress, risks, and tradeoffs clearly and directly.</li>

<li>Present data-backed options to decision makers and drive decisions to closure.</li>

<li>Contribute to team health by building delivery best practices, me

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