Senior Product Designer, Mapping

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Lead core Mapping design from problem definition through launch and iteration, including turn-by-turn guidance, map zoom and motion, and driver orientation.
• Design real-time road feedback, including emerging voice and AI-assisted experiences.
• Shape map styling, 3D views, and map assets; design tools that help mapping and operations teams keep maps accurate.
• Align cross-functional leaders, synthesize feedback, and resolve complex design decisions.
• Build reusable design-system components, tooling, and map assets that improve multiple surfaces.
• Benchmark map and navigation products and maintain a high quality bar.
• Partner with engineering and content design through implementation, edge cases, and launch.
• Frame ambiguous problems with product and engineering leads and align teams around priorities.
• Give constructive critique, communicate decisions to broad audiences and leadership, and help shape team practices.

Experience and qualifications

• At least five years of product design experience and a portfolio showing end-to-end ownership of complex, shipped mobile experiences.
• Experience designing maps, navigation, or location-based products.
• Strong interaction and visual design craft, with high-fidelity prototyping ability.
• Experimental mindset with AI-native prototyping and tooling, code-based, AI-assisted, or both.
• Ability to apply UX standards for accessibility, safety, reliability, usability, and Lyft Product Language.
• Track record of systems-level work adopted beyond a single feature.
• Effective partnership with product, engineering, data science, and content design through implementation.
• Deep familiarity with leading map and navigation products and clear communication of complex work.

Nice to have

• Motion design and 3D experience, especially for maps, animated components, and real-time interfaces.
• Voice or conversational UI design experience.
• Experience with driver, logistics, in-vehicle, or other high-stakes, glanceable interfaces.
• Experience designing internal tools for operations or data teams.

Benefits

• Benefits include health and dental coverage, life and disability insurance, mental health, family-building, child-care and pet benefits, and a health care savings account.
• Lyft offers an RRSP plan and subsidized commuter benefits.
• Paid time off differs by employment category; salaried team members have flexible paid time off with manager approval, while hourly team members receive 15 days plus an additional day per service year.
• New parents are eligible for 18 weeks of paid time off as a top-up to provincial programs.

Work arrangement

• Hybrid role with office attendance three days weekly, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.
• Hybrid employees may work from anywhere for up to four weeks per year.

Compensation

• The expected Toronto-area base pay range is CAD 136,000–170,000, excluding potential equity, bonus, and benefits.