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About the role
As the Staff Product Manager for Base Pricing, you will own the vision and roadmap for how Lyft sets base prices, and define the success metrics that measure it. That includes: Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years of product management or relevant experience, with significant time spent on algorithmic, data-driven, pricing, or marketplace products
- A deep technical understanding of microeconomics, and ideally a background in Operations Research, Econometrics, Machine Learning, or algorithmic systems
- Experience owning pricing, revenue management, or other economic levers with direct P&L impact, experience with price optimization, elasticity modeling, or cost modeling is a strong plus
- Experience running A/B tests and market-level experiments, using statistical and causal inference techniques to evaluate results, and developing post-launch testing strategies
- Experience with data, including querying, aggregation, analysis, and visualization, comfortable working directly in SQL and with data science partners on model design
- Ability to define and analyze metrics that inform the success of products, and excellent judgment about the dynamics of a product ecosystem
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.
Lyft connects people to transportation to change the way we live and get around our communities. We are looking for product managers who bring exceptional creative, strategic, and analytical skills to drive forward a best in class product. Product management at Lyft leads the integration of engineering, data science, and design to achieve the company's vision for reinventing transportation. We are looking for entrepreneurial and passionate Product Managers to innovate and execute across a rapidly growing, fast paced company and industry.
Pricing is the primary economic engine of Lyft's marketplace — a high-precision, real-time system that processes millions of fare calculations per hour, balancing rider affordability, driver earnings, and Lyft's sustainable growth. The Pricing team sits at the intersection of the marketplace, mediating between rider demand and driver supply, and is a core pillar of the Rider Organization.
The Base Pricing Team owns the systems that set the base price of a Lyft ride for every ride...
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