Senior Product Designer, Payments, Identity & Integrity

Lyft; Toronto (OH); Hybrid; USD 97,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extended health & dental coverage

Mental health benefits

Family building benefits

Child care & pet benefits

Lyft Health Care Savings Account

Job summary

Lyft is seeking a Senior Product Designer in Toronto on a hybrid schedule to lead design for driver earnings and secure payments. You’ll partner with product, design, engineering, and data science teams to craft trusted experiences across payments, identity, and fraud challenges.

You will conduct user interviews, run usability testing, and advocate customer‑centric solutions while elevating design craft in a fast‑paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5-6 years of product design experience with a focus on complex systems and workflows.
• Experience working with a lean team of Engineers, Product Managers and Program Managers.
• Experience taking a holistic approach to designing complex workflows and reducing friction in experiences.
• Experience managing cross‑functional stakeholder feedback and expectations.
• Expertise with Figma and experience using AI tooling.
• Excellence in design craft.
• Experience running user interviews and usability testing designs.

Responsibilities

• Design features that help drivers understand their earnings, access their pay, and resolve payment issues efficiently.
• Lead end‑to‑end design for driver earnings and identity verification experiences, from research and ideation through execution.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional partners to design intuitive and effective designs addressing driver payments, identity and fraud challenges.
• Influence product shape with research and data, delivering high‑quality wireframes, mockups and prototypes.

Skills

Figma

AI tooling

User interviews

Usability testing

Cross‑functional collaboration

Payments domain

Design craft

Job description

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.

Our team is dedicated to creating a seamless and secure experience for our riders and drivers, ensuring their identity and data are protected at all times. As a Senior Product Designer, you'll lead the design of solutions that help drivers understand their earnings and get paid securely while protecting our communities from fraud. You will work closely with cross‑functional teams, including product managers, designers, engineers, and data scientists, to create intuitive and effective designs on driver payments and complex security challenges.

You’ll advocate for a customer‑centric approach and thrive in a dynamic, fast‑paced environment. From initial ideation through to launch, you'll support projects with interaction, visual, and product thinking skills, helping to define and deliver impactful experiences for our Payment, Identity and Integrity teams.

The Opportunity

• Design features that help drivers understand their earnings, access their pay, and resolve payment issues efficiently
• Lead end‑to‑end design for driver earnings and identity verification experiences, from research and ideation through execution
• Play a critical role in designing solutions that protect our users and enhance their trust in our platform
• Collaborate with cross‑functional partners to design intuitive and effective designs that address unique rideshare driver, identity and fraud challenges

Responsibilities:

• Problem solve, think big, and explore divergent concepts/ideas while understanding how to converge and build iteratively towards your vision.
• Influence the shape of the product with research and data while executing design work using high quality wireframes, mockups, user journeys, and cross‑platform interactive prototypes.
• Advocate for design by sharing your work and presenting cross‑functionally, while being able to precisely articulate design rationale.
• Inspire the entire team (including your cross‑functional) partners by bringing new ideas to the table.

Experience:

• 5-6 years of product design experience with a focus on complex systems and workflows
• Experience working with a lean team of Engineers, Product Managers and Program Managers
• Experience taking a holistic approach to designing complex workflows and reducing friction in experiences
• Experience managing cross‑functional stakeholder feedback and expectations
• Expertise with Figma and experience using AI tooling
• Excellence in design craft
• Experience running user interviews and usability testing designs
• Ability to work with a low‑ego, highly collaborative, cross‑functional team
• Bonus: Experience working on financial products, payments, or identity verification

Benefits:

• Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Child care and pet benefits
• Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account
• RRSP plan with company match to help save for your future
• In addition to provincial observed holidays, salaried team members are covered under Lyft's flexible paid time off policy. The policy allows team members to take off as much time as they need (with manager approval). Hourly team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service
• Lyft is proud to support new parents with 18 weeks of paid time off, designed as a top‑up plan to complement provincial programs. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.
• Subsidized commuter benefits and Lyft ride credits

Lyft is committed to creating an inclusive workforce that fosters belonging.

Lyft believes that every person has a right to equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, pardoned record of offences, or any other basis protected by applicable law or by Company policy.

Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.

Accommodation for persons with disabilities will be provided upon request in accordance with applicable law during the application and hiring process.

Please contact your recruiter if you wish to make such a request.

Lyft highly values having employees working in‑office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office at least 3 days per week, including on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in‑office perks Lyft offers. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid

The expected base pay range for this position in the Toronto area is CAD $136,000 - CAD $170,000, not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.

Lyft may use artificial intelligence to screen applicants, however, Lyft employees make the ultimate selection and hiring decisions.

This job fills an existing vacancy.