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.
Lyft connects people to transportation to change the way we live and get around our communities. Lyft’s legal team is growing rapidly, and we are looking for a Legal Program Manager to help us scale and modernize our technology. Come be part of a team at Lyft focused on enabling and empowering legal technology.
The Legal Program Manager at Lyft will drive cross-functional initiatives, leveraging strong leadership, planning, communication, and collaboration skills. This LPM will bring operational experience with software engineering, legal technology and/or project management. They are problem solvers who make things happen around them by setting clear goals and inspiring teams to deliver. This LPM at Lyft will be both strategic and tactical and do what it takes to successfully deliver key programs that have a material impact on the business. This LPM will report to the Senior Manager of Legal Technology, and sit within Legal Operations.
Responsibilities:
- Manage operational processes to maintain and support legal systems and tools, including workflow automation, eDiscovery, contract management, ebilling, knowledge management, and document management.
- Proactively evaluate the efficiency, quality, and effectiveness of current system and tool capabilities, and shepherd change activities to improve.
- Manage legal tech procurement process, including assessing gaps in legal’s tech stack, identifying solutions, and leading change management efforts.
- Partner with engineering, product, and business leadership to build highly collaborative teams and to enhance communication across teams and stakeholders.
- Identify and resolve systemic issues impacting Lyft Legal and take action to resolve.
- Partner with Legal team members to create and improve centralized resources to ensure they are well maintained and accurate.
- Plan, organize, manage, and execute on cross-functional and departmental projects.
- Communicate deliverables, milestones, risks, and dependencies to stakeholders in a timely manner.
Experience:
- A minimum of 3-5 years of legal operations and/or project management experience, preferably in an in-house environment.
- Direct experience implementing and managing legal team technology (e.g., workflow automation, CLM, eDiscovery, matter management, document management, or knowledge management).
- Experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver complex projects iteratively with multiple dependencies and constraints, in a highly dynamic and agile environment.
- Proven ability to operate effectively and autonomously across multiple teams in situations of extreme ambiguity, with only high-level direction.
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
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.
