Autonomous Vehicle Partnership Manager

Responsibilities

• Serve as a key commercial point of contact for partner working teams across multiple active AV partnerships, building trusted relationships at the working level
• Drive commercial momentum by preparing and executing partner working sessions, ensuring the right people are in the room, the agenda is sharp, and commitments are tracked and followed through
• Own the pulse of each partnership by proactively tracking commercial commitments and contractual milestones, flagging risks early, and keeping internal teams aligned
• Support Lyft's participation in regular partner operational reviews, ensuring commercial commitments and contractual milestones are accurately represented
• Ensure deal value is fully realized by briefing Lyft's programmatic and operational teams on commercial terms, partner expectations, and contractual commitments
• Be the connective tissue between the partnerships team and the business by surfacing working level issues to leadership and helping resolve commercial friction
• Help build the foundation for scale by documenting AV partnership processes and best practices

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in partnerships, account management, business development, project management, or a similar commercial role
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate multiple parallel workstreams simultaneously without losing precision on the details
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills; comfortable driving alignment across diverse internal teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to represent Lyft professionally in partner-facing settings and internally with senior stakeholders
• Highly organised with strong attention to detail and a bias toward proactive communication
• Genuine curiosity about the AV industry and appetite to develop expertise in a fast-moving space

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with AV, mobility, or enterprise technology companies
• Familiarity with enterprise commercial processes — including how contracts, deployment plans, or reporting obligations work in practice

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
• Discretionary paid time off (salaried team members); 15 days paid time off (hourly team members); 12 observed holidays
• 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