Senior Technical Program Manager, AI Transformation

Lyft; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 148,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Mental health benefits

Family building benefits

Child care and pet benefits

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Commuter benefits

Lyft credits

Job summary

Lyft is hiring a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead our AI transformation in developer productivity, shaping how engineers at Lyft work with AI, from tooling to platforms.

You will own the roadmap, set priorities, and partner with engineering teams to build AI-native workflows that solve real developer pain. This role blends program delivery with product sense and requires a strong track record of cross-functional leadership and customer focus.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Technical Program Management or a TPM/PM hybrid role.
• Experience owning a roadmap and defining success across competing demands.
• Hands-on familiarity with AI coding tools and engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead Lyft's AI transformation in developer productivity: shape strategy for AI-enhanced engineering workflows.
• Own the roadmap: prioritize, define success, and align with stakeholders across teams.
• Partner with engineering to build AI-native workflows that solve real developer pain.
• Run end-to-end programs, coordinating across infrastructure, developer platforms, and leadership.
• Act as voice of the customer, surfacing pain points and feeding them into roadmaps.
• Define success metrics, gather requirements, and ensure shipped solutions fix problems.
• Manage plans with leads to call out risks early and keep stakeholders aligned.
• Own program health: track milestones, surface blockers, and keep decisions transparent.
• Use technical background to ask sharp questions and build credible plans.
• Share in the team's release on-call rotation.

Skills

TPM/PM hybrid

Software engineering

Roadmap ownership

Developer tooling

AI tooling experience

Tools

Cursor

Copilot

Claude Code

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.

Lyft Infrastructure builds the systems to ship stable, scalable, and efficient services. We're hiring a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead our AI transformation in developer productivity: rethinking how engineers at Lyft work with AI, from tooling and agentic workflows to the platforms that make them possible. This role blends program delivery with product sense: you'll own the roadmap for your area, set priorities, and act as the voice of the customer.

Responsibilities:

• Lead Lyft's AI transformation in developer productivity: shape the strategy for how AI enhances engineering workflows, from adoption of tools like Cursor, Copilot, and Claude Code to building AI-native workflows and agentic tooling for engineers
• Own the roadmap: sequence the work, make the prioritization calls, and define what success looks like for AI-driven engineering productivity at Lyft
• Partner with engineering teams to build AI-native workflows that solve real developer pain, not just deploy tools for the sake of it
• Run programs end to end, from kickoff through delivery, coordinating across infrastructure, developer platforms, and engineering leadership
• Be the voice of the customer: partner with engineering teams across Lyft, surface their pain points, and feed that back into priorities and roadmaps
• Define success metrics and adoption goals, gather and document customer requirements, and make sure what ships actually solves the problem
• Partner with engineering and infrastructure leads to build plans, call out risks early, and keep stakeholders aligned
• Own program health: track milestones, surface blockers before they slip, and keep decision-makers in the loop
• Use your technical background to ask sharp questions and build plans the team believes in
• Share in the team's release oncall rotation

Experience:

• 5+ years in Technical Program Management or a TPM/PM hybrid role
• A background in software, data, or systems engineering, enough to go deep with engineers
• Experience owning a roadmap: setting strategy, prioritizing across competing demands, and defining what success looks like
• Experience with developer productivity, developer tooling, or engineering platforms
• Hands-on familiarity with AI coding tools (Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code) and how engineers actually use them
• Bonus: experience building or shipping AI-native or agentic workflows
• A strong track record leading cross-functional programs with real dependencies and tight timelines, autonomously and with only high-level direction
• Experience owning customer relationships across engineering teams, gathering requirements, and translating their needs into roadmaps and technical specs
• Ability to glean meaningful insights from usage and productivity data to influence product planning and communicate to others
• Comfortable defining and tracking success metrics and adoption
• Clear communicator across the stack, from engineer to VP

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.

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 3 days per week 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. 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 San Francisco area is $148,000 - $185,000, not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location.