Communications Specialist

Full Time
New York, NY, USA
4 months ago
Communications Specialist

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.

We're seeking a self-starter to join our Brand Comms and Social team. The ideal candidate is enthusiastic, collaborative, and detail oriented. They possess excellent communication skills, have a data-driven mindset, collaborate well with others, and manage multiple competing projects and timelines with ease. The communications team executes quickly. You’ll be comfortable with ambiguity and change, and are able to take something from idea to execution. 

You’ll be able to be part of a well-loved rideshare brand, helping lead the voice and personality behind the Lyft logo, showing up often in the feeds—and in the minds—of our audiences. We’re a fun team with an important role at a mission driven company. Come and join us!

Responsibilities:
  • Acting as a coordinator across the team, touching every aspect of the work from earned media to brand social
  • Leading coordinations across key projects and campaigns from concept development, to execution and analysis
  • Day to day team project management and support including creating and maintaining social media and communications content calendars, liaising with agencies and partner teams, and driving deadlines and deliverables
  • Scheduling and coordinating posts within our social media publishing tools
  • Routing contracts and project scopes through relevant parties
  • Working across social and comms to spot opportunities to tie social content to earned moments and help bring them to life
  • Measuring and reporting on brand comms and social KPIs and metrics
Experience:
  • 2-3+ years of related experience in social media, marketing, or communications
  • Excellent project management skills - impeccable attention to detail
  • Strong interest in brand, social media, and communications
  • Solid interpersonal skills and enthusiasm for the work
  • Ability to collaborate and work effectively with various teams and functions within Lyft
  • Experience working with agencies, vendors, or influencers
  • Bonus? Familiarity with Airtable, Sprinklr, and/or Critical Mention
Benefits:
  • Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
  • Mental health benefits
  • Family building 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.  

This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on 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.

The expected range of pay for this position in the New York City area is $76,500 - $85,000. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Range is not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.