Product and Litigation Counsel, Waymo
$226-286k
+ Discretionary annual bonus program + Equity
Autonomous driving technology
Open for applications
Autonomous driving technology
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$226-286k
+ Discretionary annual bonus program + Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it simpler and safer for people to move things and themselves around.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of prior litigation and/or product counseling experience with a law firm or in-house legal department
- The ability to partner at all levels of the company and across different teams, including with executives and technical staff
- Detailed and in-depth understanding of the litigation life-cycle, experience managing offensive and defensive litigation team efforts, and ediscovery processes, workflows and best practices
- High level of enthusiasm for winning together as a team, driving achievement while being business-focused, and working collaboratively with legal and non-legal partners
Desirable
- Experience working with or at an automotive, technology company.Product counseling experience
- Experience counseling across a range of subject matters relevant to regulated industries or AI
- In-house and/or trial experience
- Experience responding to governmental requests for information, or other product, commercial, employment, or IP litigation experience
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 guide our business forward from technology development through scaled commercial deployment
- You will report into our Assistant General Counsel
- Manage and advise on lawsuits, investigations, and subpoena matters
- Provide proactive product counseling advice to our safety, engineering, and operations teams
- Advise on product litigation risk
- Advise on approaches to inbound inquiries, internal and external communications, and proposed safety publications
- Participate as a member of the legal incident response team
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
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 values
- Our customers are at the heart of everything we do
- Safety is our foundation
- We pioneer
- Act with thoughtful urgency
- Respect each other
- Be responsible owners
- We’re stronger together
- Optionality creates opportunities
- Always be learning
- Celebrate progress
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
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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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