Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the 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 One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over one million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving tens of millions of miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 13+ U.S. states.
We believe our mission deserves the best world’s best talent, and that begins with sourcing. Join us!
You’ll have the opportunity to act as a strategic leader and build out org-wide best practices and processes. There is a significant impact opportunity available on our recruiting team for someone who has deep experience sourcing for a wide range of highly specialized roles and driving all stages of the front-end candidate funnel. You’ll own hiring manager relationships across the entire organization, identify and engage leading experts in their respective fields, and partner with our recruiters and technical leaders to carefully scale and optimize our teams.
In This Role, You Will
- Build highly targeted searches that deliver candidate profiles with precision
- Craft thoughtful approaches to candidate outreach that will engage even the most passive talent
- Cultivate relationships with high priority targets over the long-term
- Act as the primary touchpoint for candidates from initial outreach until the onsite interview stage, ensuring an exceptional candidate experience throughout
- Utilize non-traditional and creative strategies to discover undervalued talent
- Take a highly organized and data driven approach to candidate tracking and funnel metrics
Our Ideal Candidates Will Have
- 3+ years of experience sourcing technical talent across a range of specializations including ML/AI, software development, research, hardware, supercomputing, security, etc.
- Demonstrable success in hiring top technical talent at a premier tech company and/or high growth startup
- Track record of delivering healthy candidate volume across a wide variety of roles simultaneously, while maintaining a high degree of responsiveness and care to each stakeholder and candidate in process
You Might Thrive In This Role If You
- Are deeply interested in technology and artificial intelligence, and their potential for positive impact on humanity
- Passionate about building and growing relationships
- Connect and relate to a wide range of people, personalities, and values
- Care deeply about building a diverse recruiting pipeline and inclusive work environment
- Have a history of balancing a high volume of open roles with ease
- Learn quickly and adapt well to a constantly evolving environment with shifting priorities
- Are insanely curious
