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About the role
You will work closely with machine learning, AI engineers and data scientists to define the right objectives for the team’s models, interfacing with the rest of the company to understand the Rider App’s stakeholder teams needs and Lyft’s overall goals. In order to do this, you will have to identify the outcomes worth pursuing and translate them into a single objective to be used end to end by the applications. You’ll have to consider short term and long term tradeoffs, other than objectives of partner teams. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Experience in managing (from product perspective) a team of software engineers, tracking the progress towards a roadmap through appropriate tools (Jira, Linear, Spreadsheets, Clickup etc)
- Experience with user facing large scale experimentation (optimizely, statsig, eppo etc), knowing concepts such as power and statistical significance
- Experience in using AI agents to accelerate day to day execution including, amongst others, to: understand code, perform queries on company data, prepare dashboards for leadership
- Familiarity with crafting and leading presentations to small groups at the CXO executive level and to big teams (100+ ppl) at an all hands like level in medium to large companies
- Ability to review and provide critical product feedback to technical specifications written by engineers
- Ease in driving results and operating independently and with little supervision in flat structured organizations where approvals are not needed but results are closely monitored
More about this role
At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.
The Rider Recommendations team is an Applied AI and Machine Learning team tasked with personalizing all realtime decisions happening inside the Rider Apps, including search, ride modes, content selection and ranking, message generation and others. Since last year, this team has been one of the major contributors to financial outcomes at Lyft and, working closely with the Rider App team, they are in the process of evolving the Rider application to make more room for personalization and realtime decision making. The team operates as the orchestration layer behind everything that the rider sees, being the final decision maker on what to show.
You will work closely with machine learning, AI engineers and data scientists to define the right objectives for the team’s models, interfacing with the rest of the company to understand the Rider App’s stakeholder teams needs and Lyft’s overall goals. In order to do this, you will have to identify the outcomes worth pursuing and translate them into a single objective to be used...
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