Senior Counsel, Waymo
EMEA Regional
£180-194k
Eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan
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Autonomous driving technology
Open for applications
Autonomous driving technology
1001+ employees
Open for applications
£180-194k
Eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it simpler and safer for people to move things and themselves around.
Role
Who you are
- Law degree (LLB, LLM or JD)
- Admitted to practice law in an EU member state or as a Solicitor or Barrister in the UK
- At least 8 years of experience practicing law, 4 of which involve practicing law in the UK and/or an EU member state
- Experience assisting international technology companies with introducing novel products and services into EMEA
- Experience engaging EMEA regulators on a range of topics
- Fluent in English and another official EU language
Desirable
- Experience working in the automotive industry
- Experience working as in house counsel
- Additionally admitted to practice law as a Solicitor or Barrister in the UK or another EU member state
- Fluency in three or more official EU languages
- At least 15 years of experience practicing law
- Demonstrated experience working with international legal teams and clients
What the job involves
- As part of Waymo's Legal team, you will work on the exciting legal issues surrounding our transformational autonomous driving technology and help drive our business lines forward from technology ideation through scaled commercial deployment
- We partner with our public policy, safety, security and privacy experts to define transportation policy for the autonomous driving world to come, advising on regulatory changes that support and protect our users around the world
- We collaborate with our engineering, product, strategy and operations teams to develop and protect our intellectual property portfolio and drive our corporate and commercial transactions
- We ensure compliance with an increasingly complex and dynamic range of global regulations. And we anticipate, mitigate, and litigate high-profile and precedent-setting legal matters
- You will report into our Managing Counsel, IP & Trade
- Serve as lead attorney on a wide range of UK and greater EMEA related projects, and provide the full range of supporting legal services to other global Legal teams, including commercial deals, advocacy, event response, employment, and dispute resolution, in support of Waymo’s success in the region
- Provide strategic guidance to key cross-functional internal stakeholders on a wide range of legal, business, corporate strategy and governance issues relevant to the UK and greater EMEA
- Work closely with key partners such as public policy, public affairs, product counsels, regulatory counsels, communications, compliance and others to jointly develop and implement winning strategies, including representing Waymo in interactions with local agencies and organizations as required
- Support cross-functional global teams with navigating country/region specific laws and regulations, including coordinating internally and externally to closely monitor, review, report on, and shape changing laws and regulations in the UK and greater EMEA relevant to Waymo’s business
- Gain subject matter expertise in new areas as novel regional issues and topics emerge
- Support compliance and other corporate governance tasks related to the UK and greater EMEA
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company that began as the Google self-driving car project in 2009. After initial development, it secured permits to deploy autonomous ride-hailing services in cities including Phoenix and San Francisco, but has recently hit a major bump in the road with safety concerns that resulted in a recall of over 400 self-driving cars.
With the autonomous driving industry already besieged by setbacks and public distrust, this development does Waymo no favours. That said, as an industry leader there remains the possibility it will see out the storm, but massive attention will need to be given to rebuilding trust with consumers if this is to be the case.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2024
$5.6bn
SERIES C
Jun 2021
$2.5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $11.1bn
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Dmitri Dolgov
(Co-CEO, not founder)Former CTO of the company. After a PhD at the University of Michigan, they worked as a Stanford Postdoctoral Researcher before moving to the Toyota Research Institute. They also spent 8 years at Google as a Software Engineer.
Tekedra N. Mawakana
(Co-CEO, not founder)Has worked at Waymo since 2017, as Global Head of Policy then CXO then COO before becoming Co-CEO. They are on the Board of Advisors at Operator Collective, Board of Directors at Intuit, and an Advisor for Boom Supersonic.
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