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