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.
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
- Design the roadmap for a platform team of engineers spread across the US and Poland
- Deeply understand complex operational, engineering, system-level pain points, and turn these insights into a crisp roadmap
- Develop, measure, and own new metrics and measures of success
- Work directly with other operational PMs and operations groups to understand how our systems need to scale with growth
- Own prioritization decisions between projects on the roadmap
You Have
- 5+ years of technical experience (whether technical degree or job-based technical skills)
- Experience / familiarity building complex platforms, systems architectures and data pipelines
- Direct ownership / accountability to technical infrastructure outcomes
- Understanding of and experience with scaling challenges of back-end systems
- Experience collaborating directly with hardware and operations teams
- Ability to understand complex workflows, identify pain points, and prioritize them
- Translate company-level outcomes to team-level outcomes and build a product roadmap to achieve those outcomes
We Prefer
- Prior AV experience
- Experience working in complex operational or network optimization settings (e.g., Uber, Doordash)
- Experience at a high-growth company helping scale its systems/ pipelines
- Experience collaborating with geographically distributed teams
