Group Product Manager, Verticals

Socotra, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great medical, dental, and vision insurance

Mental health benefits

Family building benefits

Child care and pet benefits

401(k) plan with company match

Paid time off

Paid parental leave

Subsidized commuter benefits

Monthly Lyft credits

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Group Product Manager for Verticals to define how users engage with travel experiences. This role involves leading a team, managing product lifecycles, and requires significant experience in product management and consumer mobile apps. The ideal candidate will drive strategic vision, work cross-functionally, and possess strong analytical and communication skills. This position offers extensive benefits including medical insurance, 401(k) match, and parental leave.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in product management, product design, or related fields.
• 2+ years of experience managing product managers.
• Experience with data science and operations teams on complex products.

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow a team of product managers.
• Set an ambitious vision for the team.
• Own products from ideation to maintenance.
• Align cross-functional partners to drive vision.
• Communicate roadmaps and priorities clearly.

Skills

Product management

Team leadership

Data analysis

Communication

Project management

Consumer mobile apps experience

Marketplace dynamics

Job description

As Group Product Manager for Verticals, you will define how millions of people plan, book, and experience their journeys across these critical moments. You’ll lead a high‑performing team of PMs to build seamless booking flows, deeply personalized experiences, and robust integrations with travel and event partners—owning the end‑to‑end product across all three verticals. You’ll take on some of the most complex challenges in rideshare: optimizing rider‑driver matching in dynamic, high‑variability environments; advancing demand forecasting; improving real‑time driver guidance; and designing targeted incentives that drive growth. Working closely with Product Design, Data Science, Engineering, and Business teams, you’ll bring strong customer empathy, sharp product judgment, and a relentless ownership mindset. This is a highly visible role with outsized impact on Lyft’s core business, requiring you to balance the needs of riders and drivers in fast‑moving, operationally intensive environments.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and grow a team of product managers, providing development, mentorship, and coaching to help them achieve their goals and Lyft's goals
• Set an ambitious vision for the Verticals team that motivates your team, peers, and leadership — and that accounts for the distinct dynamics of airports, scheduled rides, and events
• Understand Lyft's strategic and competitive position. Set your team's goals and success metrics that align with Lyft's mission and drive maximum impact based on data analysis, market research, and usability studies
• Completely own your team's products — existing and new — from ideation through development, experimentation, launch, growth, and maintenance, caring deeply about both rider and driver experiences
• Lead and align cross‑functional partners including engineers, designers, data scientists, analysts, marketers, business partners, and operations to drive a shared vision
• Communicate clear roadmaps, priorities, experiments, and decisions across a wide spectrum of audiences from partner teams to executive leadership

Experience:

• 6+ years of experience in product management, product design, or equivalent consulting experience with significant time spent leading consumer mobile apps or marketplace products
• 2+ years of experience managing product managers
• Experience working with or alongside data science and operations teams on complex, products; familiarity with experimentation, marketplace dynamics, or logistics is a plus
• Passion for Lyft and what we are trying to achieve in sustainable urban transportation
• Natural ability to make things happen around you — you manage project ambiguity, complexity, and interdependencies in an organized and structured way
• Strong ability to define and analyze metrics that inform the success of products and the health of the business
• Excellent judgment and thoughtfulness about the dynamics of a product ecosystem
• Strong communication skills and intuition for communication strategy at every level — within teams, with partner teams, and to executive leadership
• Ability to conceptualize, manage, and prioritize multiple projects for stakeholders
• Detail oriented with superior organizational skills — balancing multiple projects, deadlines, and requests should be second nature to you

Benefits:

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Child care and pet benefits
• 401(k) plan with company match to help save for your future
• In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
• Subsidized commuter benefits
• Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership

Lyft is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.