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Program Manager, AV Safety Policy & Programs

Lyft New York, NY senior full-time

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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

Nice to have

  • AV safety frameworks
  • US AV reporting requirements
  • robotaxi
  • ridehail
  • fleet operations
  • multi-market or international safety operations

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