Pillar Docking Station
Q1 2022 - Q3 2024
Photo courtesy Lyft
Product Brief:
Pillar is Lyft’s next generation docking infrastructure hardware product for micromobility. It improves upon the state of the art by providing better user docking UX (resulting in lower docking failures), lower operating costs, and greater deployment flexibility.
Contributions:
Drove the development of Pillar products from EVT through to production as NPI Technical Program Manager. The Pillar product suite includes a solar powered version pictured above, a Charging version enabling docked charging of compatible vehicles, and re-designed baseplates to meet aggressive technical and business requirements
Increased projected program NPV by over 50% through developing and gaining executive approval on a program strategy change to enable 20% BOM cost reduction going from EVT to DVT
Launched successful public Alpha and Beta pilots on schedule that exceeded KPIs for ride volume and dock performance
Mentored and coached junior TPM from entry-level hardware experience into driving their own development program
Links:
StreetsBlog NYC covering Charging Pillar Pilot launch