Job Description
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world’s most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World’s Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.
Waymo’s Product Management Team is a mission-driven team responsible for writing and enacting first-of-their-kind playbooks to bring fully autonomous driving technology to market. Our team develops simple solutions for complex problems by orchestrating cross-functional efforts to safely drive Waymo’s technology and the products it enables forward. We do this by understanding the customer, the business, and the technology. We are humble about the scope of our work, collaborative in our approach to problem-solving, and ambitious about our vision for the future.
In this hybrid role, you will report to a Director of Product Management
You will:
- Work with a team of world class engineers, product managers, data scientists, and operations to deliver safe monitoring of the fleet and our passengers at scale
- Develop the product roadmap to get ahead of customer and business needs, while being responsive to emerging, high priority field events
- Build strong partnerships with operations, systems engineering, systems safety, and product data science to build experiences that deliver safe
- Connect the product roadmap to our long term commercial goals, ensuring we can scale the program, while maintaining a high quality bar, and achieving our long term cost goals
You have:
- 10+ years of product management experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Demonstrated track record of delivering transformational product impact, starting with building a vision and decomposing it into concrete, actionable plans with cross-org alignment
- Strong customer empathy, including for internal operations customers
- Experience as a budget owner that has scaled a business to better unit economics through focus on product cost drivers
- Influential Leadership: Experience managing complex stakeholder environments, from internal stakeholders like operations, systems safety, and executive leadership to external stakeholders like regulators and policy makers
We prefer:
- Experience in a regulated industry, working on a product where safety was a top priority
- Experience working on AV, robotics, or products that have a real world, operational component
- MBA or equivalent experience
Travel requirements:
- Monthly to quarterly visits to our domestic operations
- Biannual international travel to our operations in the Philippines
The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.
Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.
Salary Range
$286,000—$353,000 USD
