Senior Product Manager, Waymo

• 7+ years of product management or technical program/systems leadership experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, complex hardware-software systems, ML/perception evaluation, or large-scale testing and validation infrastructure
• Demonstrated track record of owning complex technical products end-to-end—translating ambiguous system-level validation and operational challenges into clear product requirements, metrics, and multi-quarter roadmaps
• Strong analytical foundation in capacity and demand planning, resource optimization, and operational efficiency for constrained hardware/compute test assets
• Deep systems thinking with the ability to reason across the full autonomous stack—from sensors, compute, firmware, and base vehicle integration to perception/ML models, onboard software, and fleet operations
• Proven ability to influence and align diverse cross-functional stakeholders across Engineering (Onboard SW, Simulation, Hardware), Systems Engineering, Testing Operations, and Commercialization without direct authority
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical/Mechanical/Robotics Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Desirable

• 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
• This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to the Product Management Lead of New Platform Introductions (NPI)
• Own New Platform Perception Evaluation strategy and coverage across next-generation vehicle, sensing, and compute platforms
• Lead product planning for New Platform Simrack capacity, demand forecasting, and execution efficiency across compute generations, optimizing resource allocation and test coverage to shift-left timing, reliability, and fidelity Discovery and Validation
• Define and execute the New Platform Introduction (NPI) Closed-Course Rider-Only (CC-RO) structured testing strategy and roadmap, partnering with Systems Engineering to shake down new vehicle, hardware, and firmware configurations and accelerate RO issue discovery prior to public road deployment
• Own RO Deployment ADC (RDA) as a product, defining the vision, requirements, and roadmap for an RO-representative autonomous testing mode that exercises end-to-end depot automation loops (charging, auto PC, map updates), off-hail behaviors, long-duration engagement, fault policies, and fleet response (RAD/RS) before commercial launch
• Drive NPI ADC Internal trip delivery, aligning NPI validation trip demand with vehicle supply, fleet allocation, and Commercialization/Operations partners to surface rider UX (doors, windows, cabin controls) and driving quality issues early
• Partner cross-functionally with Hardware, Systems Engineering, Firmware, and Diagnostics teams to build a cohesive shift-left discovery and validation funnel (spanning HIL Simrack, Car-on-Bench, Closed-Course, RDA, and Internal trips) that compresses new platform bring-up timelines from prototype to commercial deployment