# Senior Technical Program Manager, Central

**Company**: Lyft
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Product Management
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Lyft, our mission is to improve people's lives with the world's best transportation.

The Central TPM team drives Lyft's highest-impact product and technology initiatives from concept to launch. Central TPMs are technically strong program leaders who operate from a product and engineering point of view and bridge the gap to other functions, such as comms, marketing, BD, support, and external partners, ensuring each is a core partner in the program.

## Responsibilities

- Co-own program strategy with Product and Engineering, and influence company strategy, technical architecture, and roadmap tradeoffs.

- Lead end-to-end delivery of Lyft's top-priority cross-functional initiatives from concept to launch, with clear goals, milestones, and definition of done.

- Develop and execute integration roadmaps, strategies, and playbooks for acquisitions and strategic partnerships.

- Define how the program runs, including roles and decision rights, escalation paths, and communication plan, and hold workstream owners accountable.

- Anticipate risks early, drive mitigation plans, and aggressively resolve systemic issues blocking delivery.

- Communicate with transparency at every level, from engineers to the C-suite, sharing progress, risks, and tradeoffs clearly and directly.

- Present data-backed options to decision makers and drive decisions to closure.

- Contribute to team health by building delivery best practices, mentoring other TPMs, and supporting recruiting and onboarding.

## Experience

- 7+ years in Technical Program Management or a TPM/PM hybrid role, including leading large, highly cross-functional programs.

- A background in software engineering, systems engineering, or data science, strong enough to go deep with engineers and product leadership.

- Experience delivering programs on large-scale production systems.

- Proven ability to operate autonomously in significant ambiguity, with only high-level direction.

- Track record of shaping strategy and roadmaps, with strong dependency and risk management.

- Ability to influence, negotiate, and build alignment in a matrixed environment without formal authority.

- Experience bridging product and engineering with business functions, such as in acquisitions, partnerships, or go-to-market launches, is a strong plus.

## 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
- Technical Program Management
- Software Engineering
- Systems Engineering
- Data Science
- Leadership

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