About the Role
Waymo is seeking Technical Program Managers and Program Managers to drive roadmap execution by providing cross-functional planning, clarity, and proactive risk management. This role involves partnering closely with all Waymo functions to structure, own, and drive work towards real-world deployments of the Waymo Driver across platforms and geographies.
Responsibilities
- Identify gaps and propose changes to existing policy, systems, and process frameworks.
- Develop scalable solutions and manage risks across the organization.
- Develop best practices that benefit the organization.
- Support or lead complex, multidisciplinary projects, including managing project schedules, identifying risks, and communicating goals to stakeholders.
- Create presentations with compelling messages tailored to different audience levels, including executives.
- Drive recommendations through to implementation and results.
- Develop and manage testing and analysis best practices for complex HW/SW systems.
Requirements
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, or relevant technical field or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years relevant work experience in systems engineering or an adjacent field.
- Understanding of Systems Engineering Processes (e.g., use cases to requirements to architecture to design review to DVP/V&V).
- Demonstrated experience in managing end-to-end systems integrated projects or programs.
- Demonstrated experience executing complex strategic and operational initiatives.
- Experience implementing projects in a demanding, change-oriented, fast-paced environment requiring high deadline-driven productivity.
- Proven ability to collaborate with team members and cross-functional groups to design processes and implement strategic projects that solve business problems.
Skills
- Systems Engineering Processes
- End-to-end systems integrated projects management
- Complex strategic and operational initiatives execution
- Project management
- Risk management
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Process design
- Strategic project implementation
- Auditing
- Assurance
- Compliance frameworks
- Autonomous driving
- Robotics
- Software development
- Hardware development
Location
- US
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5+ years relevant work experience
Education Level
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, or relevant technical field or equivalent practical experience
Salary/Compensations
- $159,000—$196,000 USD
Benefits
- Discretionary annual bonus program
- Equity incentive plan
- Generous Company benefits program
About the Company
- 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.
