About the Role
Waymo's Product Data Science team collaborates with Engineering, Product, and Operations to drive informed decisions using data. This role involves setting the vision for a team of Product Data Scientists, leading them to execute company vision at scale, and analyzing operational and vehicle data to enhance Waymo Driver performance.
Responsibilities
- Set the vision for a team of Product Data Scientists
- Lead the team to execute company vision at scale, owning all team outputs across optimizations, modeling, and data analysis
- Analyze operational and vehicle data to enhance Waymo Driver performance, support rapid geographic expansion, and maintain continuous freedom of operation
- Act as a key thought partner to senior leadership, aligning cross-functional stakeholders around a shared vision
- Manage the prioritization of team resources to effectively partner with key cross-functional teams, including product, engineering, operations, and strategy
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in a related technical field or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of team management experience
- 5+ years of experience with Machine Learning models and experimentations
- Statistical knowledge/data intuition
- Ability to structure and solve ambiguous problems
- Coding skills and experience: Python, SQL and Data science related coding experience
- Experience working with Product and Software Engineering teams
- Prior experience building and managing both Data Scientists and Data Analysts
- Marketplace business experience
Skills
- Python
- SQL
- Data science related coding experience
- Machine Learning models and experimentations
- Statistical knowledge
- Data intuition
- Problem structuring
- Problem solving
Location
- US
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 12+ years of experience in a related technical field
- 5+ years of team management experience
- 5+ years of experience with Machine Learning models and experimentations
Salary/Compensations
- $272,000—$336,000 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.
