Staff Product Manager I, Base Pricing
Core
Own the vision and roadmap for Lyft's base pricing system, which sets the reference price for rides across markets using machine learning and optimization to balance rider affordability and driver earnings.
Role type
Staff Product Manager (Pricing & Marketplace)
Builds
Base pricing engine and optimization stack for Lyft's ride marketplace
Domain
Ride-hailing / Transportation / Marketplace Economics
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Product management, microeconomics, Operations Research, Machine Learning, algorithmic systems, price optimization, elasticity modeling, cost modeling, A/B testing, causal inference, SQL, data analysis, metric definition
Preferred skills
Experience with autonomous vehicles, hybrid network pricing
Responsibilities
Define optimal granularity for base pricing (time, location, trip type), improve base price optimization engine integration with dynamic pricing, re-evaluate cost-to-fulfill impact on prices, optimize prices across ride types as a portfolio, evolve pricing for autonomous vehicle networks, communicate roadmaps and decisions to executives
Seniority
Staff, strategic ownership & cross-functional leadership
