Senior Data Analyst

At Lyft, our mission is to improve people's lives with the best transportation worldwide. We begin with our own community by establishing an organization that is open, inclusive, and diverse.

The Marketplace team at Lyft develops the company’s growth and realizes our significant business goals regarding financial measures and marketplace performance. The team contributes analysis and use cases to support Product teams, create automated tools, and manage growth investments.

We seek an analyst to join the Central Market Management team in expanding our market share. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance existing product and financial levers in the marketplace. Your role will also involve shaping the growth strategy through data analysis and competitive insights and will offer extensive exposure to executives. Furthermore, you are expected to identify and provide strategies to resolve the most pressing issues and opportunities in our marketplace. We are looking for someone with an intellectual curiosity, exceptional attention to detail, a history of analytical problem-solving skills, and adept communication skills.

Responsibilities:

• Serve the marketplace operations by providing superior analysis, forecasting, and reporting to stakeholders.
• Become knowledgeable in marketplace trends and provide support for the Rideshare organization's weekly reporting structures.
• Develop specialized knowledge in our lever portfolio, assisting cross-functional initiatives in enhancing existing products and developing new ones.
• Examine marketplace product & financial levers and provide cross-functional teams with actionable insights on improvements and problem areas.
• Work within Rideshare's decision-making frameworks with a critical view, identifying areas for improvement and business growth opportunities.
• Prepare recurrent business reviews for leadership, highlighting key focus areas.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and other teams to monitor, report, and reconcile budget distribution across marketplace programs.
• Analyze data, carry out research, and consolidate feedback into plans, processes, and playbooks.
• Be proactive and dedicated in executing tasks. No one should be able to outperform you in terms of speed and quality.
• Identify opportunities and work towards realizing them.

Experience:

• 5 years of experience in a fast-growing environment dealing with data and/or financial analytics.
• Incredible attention to detail, proven experience in developing processes to eliminate human error.
• Proficiency in SQL and quantitative analysis, ability to delve into large amounts of data, extract significant insights, dissect business issues and draw actionable conclusions.
• An outcome-driven approach to making recommendations and a proven capacity to develop a story and execution plan to support our goals and objectives.
• Exceptional communication (listening, writing, and speaking) skills with the ability to present findings and suggestions in a manner suitable for the target audience.
• A fervor to understand the root issues along with the determination to find the solution.
• Excellence in dealing with ambiguity and change management.

Benefits:

• Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits.
• Mental health benefits.
• Family building benefits.
• Access to a Health Care Savings Account.
• In addition to provincially observed holidays, team members get 15 days paid time off, with an extra day for each year of service.
• 4 Floating Holidays each calendar year prorated based on the date of hire.
• 10 paid sick days per year regardless of province.
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.

Lyft enthusiastically seeks and employs a diverse workforce. Lyft believes that every individual has a right to equal employment opportunities without discrimination due to race, ancestry, place of origin, color, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, pardoned record of offenses, or any other basis protected by applicable law or Company policy. Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and categorically prohibits harassment of any kind. Accommodation for individuals with disabilities will be provided upon request in line with applicable law during the application and hiring process. Please contact your recruiter now if you wish to make such a request.

This role will follow a hybrid working schedule once a Lyft office is established in Toronto. Team Members will be expected to work in the office three days per week (Mondays, Thursdays, and a team-specific third day). Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year.