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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Technical Program Manager, AI Transformation - **Company:** Lyft Inc - **Location:** New York, NY, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $148,000.0 - $185,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Systems Engineering, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Programming Tools - **Published:** August 1, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/E702B089D71949F1BDC958CEF26BE738/job/ ## About the Role * 5+ years in Technical Program Management or a TPM/PM hybrid role * A background in software, data, or systems engineering, enough to go deep with engineers * Experience owning a roadmap: setting strategy, prioritizing across competing demands, and defining what success looks like * Experience with developer productivity, developer tooling, or engineering platforms * Hands-on familiarity with AI coding tools (Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code) and how engineers actually use them * Bonus: experience building or shipping AI-native or agentic workflows * A strong track record leading cross-functional programs with real dependencies and tight timelines, autonomously and with only high-level direction * Experience owning customer relationships across engineering teams, gathering requirements, and translating their needs into roadmaps and technical specs * Ability to glean meaningful insights from usage and productivity data to influence product planning and communicate to others * Comfortable defining and tracking success metrics and adoption * Clear communicator across the stack, from engineer to VP ## Description Lyft Infrastructure builds the systems to ship stable, scalable, and efficient services. We're hiring a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead our AI transformation in developer productivity: rethinking how engineers at Lyft work with AI, from tooling and agentic workflows to the platforms that make them possible. This role blends program delivery with product sense: you'll own the roadmap for your area, set priorities, and act as the voice of the customer., * Lead Lyft's AI transformation in developer productivity: shape the strategy for how AI enhances engineering workflows, from adoption of tools like Cursor, Copilot, and Claude Code to building AI-native workflows and agentic tooling for engineers * Own the roadmap: sequence the work, make the prioritization calls, and define what success looks like for AI-driven engineering productivity at Lyft * Partner with engineering teams to build AI-native workflows that solve real developer pain, not just deploy tools for the sake of it * Run programs end to end, from kickoff through delivery, coordinating across infrastructure, developer platforms, and engineering leadership * Be the voice of the customer: partner with engineering teams across Lyft, surface their pain points, and feed that back into priorities and roadmaps * Define success metrics and adoption goals, gather and document customer requirements, and make sure what ships actually solves the problem * Partner with engineering and infrastructure leads to build plans, call out risks early, and keep stakeholders aligned * Own program health: track milestones, surface blockers before they slip, and keep decision-makers in the loop * Use your technical background to ask sharp questions and build plans the team believes in * Share in the team's release oncall rotation ## Related Videos - [AI Pair Programming with GitHub Copilot at SAP: Looking Back, Looking Forward!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1546-ai-pair-programming-with-github-copilot-at-sap-looking-back-looking-forward) - [Model Based Systems Engineering in an Agile Product Development Process](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/68-model-based-systems-engineering-in-an-agile-product-development-process) - [Edit Your Future: Queerverse Radical AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/909-edit-your-future-queerverse-radical-ai) - [The New Org Chart: When AI Joins the Workforce](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100036-the-new-org-chart-when-ai-joins-the-workforce) - [Exploring AI: Opportunities and Risks in Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1267-exploring-ai-opportunities-and-risks-in-development) - [Automated Driving - Why is it so hard to introduce](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/628-automated-driving-why-is-it-so-hard-to-introduce) ## Related Articles - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [How software is steering vehicle technology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/515-how-software-is-steering-vehicle-technology) - [What is Agentic Programming and Why Should Developers Care?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/625-what-is-agentic-programming-and-why-should-developers-care) - [MLOps And AI Driven Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/82-mlops-and-ai-driven-development) - [Coffee with Developers - Maria Apazoglou - Making AI understandable for all in production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/475-coffee-with-developers-maria-apazoglou-making-ai-understandable-for-all-in-production)