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Position Overview:

At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.

This team is focused on hardware supply chain solutions to meet our riders micromobility needs, read more here!

Sustainability Program Managers at Lyft deliver solutions to improve the impacts of hardware across the supply chain. They support cross-functional initiatives, leveraging communication and collaboration skills to understand dynamic regulatory, policy, and market requirements. Our SPMs are technically strong with environmental engineering experience across hardware development and facility operations. They develop LCAs for a suite of hardware products, support the improvement of supplier environmental performance, and work with cross-functional teams to identify and integrate sustainable materials into hardware products.

SPMs at Lyft are both strategic and tactical and have the courage to drive material changes with difficult constraints and challenging priorities. They are expected to own sustainability projects and the technical implementation of sustainable material integrations. In addition to the specific applied responsibilities, this position is expected to contribute to the maturity of the overall function. This includes creating and refining processes, tools and templates that can be applied across all initiatives and categories worldwide.

Responsibilities:

• Develop solutions and best practices for minimizing the impact of hardware and manufacturing systems on human health and the physical environment across the supply chain.
• Build and update LCA models for hardware and drive change based on results
• Ensure Suppliers are following established minimum standards and identify risk areas in support of supplier selection and supply chain improvement activities
• Lead programs to capture sustainability data and share to cross-functional teams including Transit Partnerships, Product, and Engineering.
• Build strategies to improve environmental performance across all hardware platforms

Experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in civil and/or environmental engineering, chemical engineering, and/or related field
• At least 5 years in Program Management experience and relevant environmental management in materials development or supporting manufacturing facilities.
• Experience interpreting environmental regulations for practical applications
• PE or EIT is a plus
• Knowledge of project management phases is a plus
• External engagement and/or supplier management experience is a plus

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

The work responsibilities of this role are expected to take place during business hours in your local Time Zone in the United States.

Lyft is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment  without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. 

Until further notice, Lyft employees working in the United States and Canada in any capacity (on a daily or hybrid schedule, remote, or as a visitor) are required to provide proof of full vaccination against COVID-19. Employees are considered fully vaccinated two weeks after completion of the entire recommended series of vaccination (usually one or two doses) with a vaccine authorized to prevent COVID-19 by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA), including by way of an emergency use authorization. Lyft will maintain records associated with your vaccination history in a way that is compliant with all relevant Federal, state and local laws. Exceptions to this requirement are employees who require religious or medical exemption as approved through Lyft’s accommodations process. New employees must provide proof of full vaccination or receive an accommodation exception approval prior to their start date.