# Program Manager, AV Safety Policy & Programs

**Company**: Lyft
**Location**: New York, NY
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Policy & Public Affairs
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Lyft is building the safety capability for autonomous mobility. As Program Manager, AV Safety Policy & Programs, you'll own key parts of Lyft's AV Safety Management System (SMS) across all four pillars: Safety Policy, Safety Risk Management, Safety Assurance, and Safety Promotion.

## Responsibilities:

- Own Lyft's AV safety policy framework, safety procedures, and partner-facing governance documentation, including version control and periodic review cycles.

- Run hazard identification and risk assessment for AV operations and new launches.

- Track safety performance indicators and trends, and surface emerging risks.

- Drive safety communications, lessons-learned documentation, and training readiness.

- Run the Safety Review Board (SRB) cadence, including agendas, materials, decision records, and follow-through on action items.

- Contribute to the standards and assessment frameworks Lyft uses with AV partners, and support partners' safety assurance and risk management activities.

- Drive AV safety programs with safety leaders, including partners across EHS, Operations, Engineering, Legal, and others from inception through go-live.

## Experience:

- 4+ years supporting or managing safety management programs in a safety-critical transportation industry (AV, aviation, rail, automotive, trucking, or equivalent)

- Working knowledge of SMS principles and how they apply to AV operations

- Hands-on experience with risk assessment, incident follow-up, and corrective action tracking

- Strong technical writing, including policy, procedures, and partner- or regulator-facing materials

- Comfort with safety data, including tracking indicators, spotting trends, and presenting findings to technical and senior audiences

- Proven ability to run multi-stakeholder programs without direct authority

- Bachelor's degree in safety, engineering, policy, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

## 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

## Skills

### Required
- SMS principles
- risk assessment
- incident follow-up
- corrective action tracking
- technical writing
- safety data analysis

### Nice to have
- AV safety frameworks
- US AV reporting requirements
- robotaxi
- ridehail
- fleet operations
- multi-market or international safety operations

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