Strategic Partner Manager

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 Strategic Partner Manager to launch, manage, and scale key partnerships for Lyft. These partnerships spread across a number of verticals. In this role, you will join a team that loves consumer technology, business strategy, building new opportunities, and growing relationships. You will be on the leading edge of helping to shape Lyft’s direction and the future of transportation.

• Launch, manage, and grow strategic partners to align with and exceed Lyft’s objectives and key metrics
• Leverage data and insights to drive strategy recommendations and partner initiatives
• Build and share learnings and best practices based on partner performance and effectiveness
• Scale partnership programs that drive rides, market share, and rider preference
• Develop and maintain cross functional relationships across the company and act as a liaison between Lyft and partner organizations
• Own all reporting of the strategic segment, participating in regular business reviews with leadership and stakeholders
• Drive quarterly business reviews with partners to align on upcoming opportunities

• Bachelor’s degree, MBA or other Master’s degree a plus
• 4+ years of business development, strategy and/or program management experience
• Strong understanding and interest in Lyft and competitive landscape 
• Experience with 2-sided marketplaces
• High degree of comfort working with product and technical teams. Technical knowledge of product integrations a plus
• Highly analytical, strategic thinker and data driven, but also a creative problem solver 
• Ability to make thoughtful, actionable recommendations under minimal structure, and quickly build consensus with internal and external stakeholders
• Collegial, high energy, and persistent personality, and excellent interpersonal and presentation skills

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
• Mental health benefits
• Family building 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