Technical Program Manager, Waymo

Infrastructure Resource Management

$158-200k

Eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program and equity incentive plan

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Autonomous driving technology

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Autonomous driving technology

1001+ employees

B2CTransportAutomation

Be an early applicant

$158-200k

Eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program and equity incentive plan

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

1001+ employees

B2CTransportAutomation

Company mission

To make it simpler and safer for people to move things and themselves around.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Large scale program management experience (multiple projects, multiple stakeholders, large teams, complex team setup)
5+ years of infra, software, and/or hardware related experience
Computer science background or commensurate technical capability (STEM)
Strong record of strategic communications

Desirable

Experience as a professional software or hardware development in a larger corporate environment
PhD or advanced technology degree
Prior experience with resource management at scale
Experience with Business, Finance, Accounting principles
Experience with multi-geo team
Experience with Machine Learning

What the job involves

Waymo’s Technical Program Managers are accountable for Waymo’s roadmap execution by providing thoughtful cross-functional planning, clarity, and proactive risk management
In the face of complex technical and operational challenges with no established playbooks to follow, we act with thoughtful urgency, driving conversations, discussions, and outcomes
Our team partners closely with every function of Waymo to structure, own and drive work towards real-world deployments of the Waymo Driver across platforms and geographies
Partner with engineering, finance, program management stakeholders to own and drive effective utilization of compute, storage, memory, networking etc…
Develop, track, and advance policy and tooling
Strongly oriented towards making decisions while balancing and communicating trade-offs to stakeholders
Ability to manage without authority and have the right amount of downward, outward, and upward alignment, collaboration, and communication of your program

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

Led by a woman

Top investors

-1% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.7)

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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