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Senior Technical Program Manager, Central

Lyft

Work setting
Hybrid
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$148K–$185K
Posted
2 wk ago

Pay: Base salary $148K–$185K (check the posting)

Where you can work: Must live near San Francisco, CA (check the posting)

From the job posting

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. 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. 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. Responsibilities • Co-own program strategy with Product and Engineering, and influence company strategy, technical architecture, and roadmap tradeoffs. • 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. • Develop and execute integration roadmaps, strategies, and playbooks for acquisitions and strategic partnerships. • Define how the program runs, including roles and decision rights, escalation paths, and communication plan, and hold workstream owners accountable. …

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Why this is a Stretch role

It's a senior or people-manager role, which usually needs prior experience in the field. It can still be worth a look if you have that experience from before or alongside teaching. Skills that often transfer to project management: planning a year at a time, juggling many stakeholders, deadlines and logistics, clear status updates.

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