Technical Program Manager, Waymo
Machine Learning
$183-232k
+ Bonus + Equity
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Autonomous driving technology
Open for applications
Autonomous driving technology
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$183-232k
+ Bonus + Equity
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
- 8+ years of relevant experience driving outcomes for large projects
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline, and good understanding of Machine Learning model life cycle or equivalent years of experience
- The ability to engage with engineering leads and contribute to technical discussions by understanding the tradeoffs and impacts of various technical decisions to the program scope, risks and timeline
- Fluent in structuring project plans, identifying technical dependencies, and driving execution across teams, all the while implementing process improvements. Having hands-on experience using Agile project management tools
- A desire to work across the organization with everyone, where all agree what we accomplish is more important than who gets the credit
- Hands-on experience identifying technical problems, and driving complete cycle of problem discovery to solution and execution
- Represent your project from business, product, or technical perspectives at varying levels
Desirable
- Master’s degree in a technical field, ideally related to AI/ML
- You contributed to technical decision-making by analyzing trade-offs, asking the rights questions and offering alternate solutions
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
- In this hybrid role, you will report to a Machine Learning Program Manager
- Collaborate across cross functional groups and align execution to meet product goals
- Partner with technical leads, product managers and program managers to lead execution on broad efforts
- Lead proactive risk management efforts and contingency plans across the program landscape to deliver on the program
- Set up and sustain mechanisms that promote organizational efficiencies, and improve speed of decision-making and execution
- Communicate across all levels of the organization to ensure all partners are aware of program decisions, status, and changes
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
Articles
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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