Data Analyst, Lyft
Strategy & Diagnostics
$106.9-118.8k
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Ride sharing company
Job no longer available
Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$106.9-118.8k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate has strong analytical problem solving skills, effective communication skills, and proactively takes ownership of their workstreams
- 3+ years experience in management consulting, strategic data science/analytics roles in a technology company, or an equivalent analytical role in a high growth startup
- Experience in leading high visibility projects and influencing others in a cross-functional team environment
- Experience in communicating with and presenting to senior leaders and data storytelling
- Strong ability in building decision making frameworks and data analysis, able to understand business issues, analyze large amounts of data, and draw actionable conclusions
- Entrepreneurial self-starter - you naturally take ownership, look for opportunities, and do whatever it takes to drive results
- Ability to independently break down large datasets and synthesize inputs from multiple sources
- Ability to think strategically about complex and unstructured business problems, leading to recommendations and action plans
- Ability to craft a compelling story and concisely present recommendations across teams and levels including both technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to manage, influence, negotiate, and inspire others in a fast-moving environment
- Ability to use data visualization tools to provide actionable insights and reusable frameworks
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for internal stakeholders, including senior leadership
- Strong product and user experience sense
- Excellent organization, planning skills, and attention to detail
- Advanced analytical and problem solving skills
- Proficiency in SQL
What the job involves
- The Marketplace team at Lyft is responsible for accelerating the growth of the business and for delivering our top business/company goals related to marketplace and business performance
- Within Marketplace, the Decisions & Insights team identifies and develops an understanding of our marketplace’s most critical problems & opportunities and creates business & product strategies to address them
- We’re looking for a Data Analyst to drive deep dive business & product analyses and communicate key trends in our data to senior leadership
- Develop hypotheses and analytical frameworks for understanding market dynamics and provide recommendations to senior leadership
- Influence business strategy and product roadmaps through insightful analytics and business modeling. Be an analytical thought leader
- Analyze marketplace product & marketplace trends and provide cross-functional teams with actionable insights on improvements and problem areas
- Evaluating areas of improvement and business growth opportunities within our business
- Work in a fast-paced environment and effectively manage time to deliver business impact in a time-efficient manner
- Become an expert in marketplace trends and support weekly reporting for the senior leadership
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Lyft has aimed for consistent growth, making sure to pitch itself as a more reliable and friendly ride-sharing option than its main competitor, Uber. Uber has a greater market share and operates globally, but Lyft hopes to compete by its focus on ride-sharing over Uber's more diversified business approach and as a more rider-friendly and greener alternative to Uber.
Operating only in the USA and Canada, Lyft is in a position of being less affected by global events than Uber but also more vulnerable to local conditions. As an example, while it doesn't face the regulatory hurdles around employment rights that Uber does, it is unable to balance out the cost of the unusually expensive US auto insurance across its operations.
In 2022, Lyft acquired PBSC Urban Solutions, a bike-share equipment and technology supplier, allowing Lyft to compete in new verticals and reaffirming its commitment to green transportation. It has also trialed and launched Lyft Assisted, where drivers help passengers from their door into the car to get to medical appointments. These developments chime well with Lyft's unique selling point as a friendlier and more environmentally aware ride-sharing app.
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 14 rounds)
Jun 2018
$600m
LATE VC
Mar 2018
$200m
LATE VC
Total funding: $4.9bn
Company benefits
- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
- Mental health benefits
- In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have unlimited paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
- 401(k) plan to help save for your future
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
- Family building benefits
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
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Founders
John Zimmer
(Co-Founder)Originally an Analyst at Lehman Brothers, Zimmer then founded Zimride which was a private ridesharing company that pivoted into Lyft.
Logan Green
(Co-Founder)Founded Zimride, a private ridesharing company which later pivoted into Lyft.
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