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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.

You will:

Own the product strategy and roadmap for how Waymo's autonomous fleet stays safe and keeps running through large-scale, fleet-wide disruptions

Define product requirements for onboard behaviors and for the fleet-level automation that detect, contain, and recover from these events

Turn real-world event data into a clear, prioritized view and make principled trade-offs

Lead a large, cross-functional, cross-org effort and drive alignment up to senior leadership

Define success metrics and evaluation strategies for end-to-end, fleet-level performance during rare events, and decide when mitigations can be relaxed as performance improves

Scale fleet resilience to new markets, platforms and international cities as Waymo expands

You have:

BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience

7+ years of product management experience (or 5+ years PM plus significant prior engineering experience), including owning highly technical products end to end

Track record of leading large, ambiguous, cross-functional programs that span several engineering orgs and operations teams, and getting senior stakeholders aligned

Strong analytical skills: able to break down large, messy datasets and incident data into risk-based priorities and crisp product decisions

Proven ability to go deep technically with engineers on complex distributed or safety-critical systems, and to push back with data

Excellent written and verbal communication, including writing for executives and leading through crisis-style, high-stakes situations

We prefer:

MS/PhD in a technical field, or an MBA with a strong technical background

Product experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or other safety-critical systems (aviation, rail, medical devices, industrial automation)

Experience with reliability, resilience, or incident-management products, e.g. SRE/production reliability, disaster recovery, network/telecom resilience, fleet or logistics operations, or crisis management

Experience building products that combine onboard/edge intelligence with cloud/offboard systems and human-in-the-loop operations

Hands-on data skills (SQL/Python) and comfort with probabilistic risk thinking

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 $241,000 — $297,000 USD