Regulatory Counsel, Waymo
$238-302k
Plus discretionary annual bonus program, and equity incentive plan
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Autonomous driving technology
Be an early applicant
Autonomous driving technology
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$238-302k
Plus discretionary annual bonus program, and equity incentive plan
Office located in Mountain View, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it simpler and safer for people to move things and themselves around.
Role
Who you are
- Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an accredited law school and active bar membership
- 3 to 5+ years of experience as an attorney at a firm, in-house at a company, or in government, practicing in the area of administrative law, agency regulations, regulatory legislation and/or compliance
- Exceptional analytical and writing skills and a comprehensive understanding of complex legal subject matter
- Experience in ambiguous or challenging situations involving safety-critical issues
- Ability to propose practical solutions to legal issues and lead legal compliance and risk mitigation efforts, executing with appropriate urgency
- Excellent communication skills, with a track record of collaborative engagement with industry stakeholders about sensitive, complex topics
Desirable
- Experience with relevant subject matter such as autonomous vehicles, other automotive, ride-hailing
- Experience with land use and infrastructure regulatory matters
- Experience in supporting the expansion of highly regulated business operations
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
- In this hybrid role, you will report into our Assistant General Counsel, Regulatory
- Advise on the applicability of existing state and local laws and regulations in novel factual situations
- Partner with cross-functional partners (e.g. Policy, Product, Safety, Engineering) to shape outcomes in regulatory and legislative proceedings that impact Waymo's operations
- Represent Waymo in interactions with government agencies
- Advise teams building scalable operational and regulatory compliance programs and processes
- Gain subject matter expertise in new areas as novel issues and topics emerge
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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