Senior Product Manager, Rider ML/AI

Lyft

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$148,000–$185,000 / yr
Posted
8 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role pays less than 85% of similar roles. Most pay $177,250–$230,737 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $166k versus about $204k for comparable roles.

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About Lyft

Lyft is a transportation network company offering ride-hailing services across the US and Canada.

Lyft currently has 31 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $148,000–$185,000 across 26 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Product Manager, Rider ML/AI

The Senior Product Manager, Rider ML/AI joins the Rider Recommendations team to personalize real-time decisions within the Rider App, including search, ride modes, content selection, ranking, and message generation. You will define and own the roadmap for applied ML and AI products across the rider conversion funnel, translating stakeholder needs into objective functions for models. Daily responsibilities include writing product requirements, designing experiments, tracking KPIs, and managing software engineering progress. You will utilize tools like Jira, Linear, and Spreadsheets, while leveraging AI agents for data queries and dashboard preparation. Technical knowledge of packages like xgboost, catboost, lightgbm, scikit learn, keras, and pytorch is required. You will solve the business problem of balancing short-term and long-term rider value while managing large-scale experimentation using Optimizely, Statsig, or Eppo.

What does a Product Manager earn in California?

Median $223300 from 310 postings across 48 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Define and own the roadmap for applied ML and AI products across the Rider Application.
  • Define and report on key metrics and KPIs directly responsible for the team's financial outcomes.
  • Establish objective functions that balance short-term, long-term, and multi-stakeholder goals.
  • Collaborate with data science to measure and predict the long-term value of Riders.
  • Develop strategies for cold-starting new regions, modes, and features to drive adoption.
  • Build a unified Rider profile by identifying and organizing data for ML and AI training.
  • Write detailed product requirements and strategy documents for both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Design and analyze experiments to monitor model performance and evaluate improvements.

What we're looking for

  • Experience driving technically complex machine learning products end-to-end from inception to launch with significant user adoption.
  • Experience managing a team of software engineers from a product perspective using tools like Jira, Linear, or Spreadsheets.
  • Experience with user-facing large-scale experimentation platforms and understanding concepts such as power and statistical significance.
  • Experience using AI agents to accelerate day-to-day execution, including code understanding, data queries, and dashboard preparation.
  • Knowledge of how machine learning and AI work, including packages like xgboost, catboost, lightgbm, scikit-learn, keras, and pytorch.
  • Familiarity with crafting and leading presentations for CXO executive levels and large teams of 100+ people.
  • Ability to review and provide critical product feedback on technical specifications written by engineers.
  • Ability to operate independently and drive results in a flat, results-oriented organizational structure.

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