Group Product Manager, Waymo

• 3+ years of managing a Product team
• Background in an engineering discipline, either hardware or software, could be undergrad degree or work equivalent
• Business experience could be one or more of: (1) startup founder, (2) successful sales or sales engineering work, or (3) management consulting or finance
• Strong analytical and presentation skills, including data analysis and telling compelling stories w/ data

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
• This role is on the Simulation Evaluation Team reporting to our Director, Product Management for Simulation, Evaluation, and Safety
• Our mission is to provide a universally useful and trusted platform for self-driving car evaluation, hillclimbing, and model training that’s powered by the world’s easiest to use, most reliable, most realistic, and fastest simulator
• Manage a team. You’ll be responsible for the strategy, team goals, and developing your team as we drive short term and long term technical vision of the organization
• Evolve the Release Process and Safety Framework. We are constantly improving how we release software with an eye always towards safety. You’ll be responsible for the evolution of the safety framework and release process, improvements to our eval methodologies supporting that process, and understanding needed modifications for new driving contexts and scope
• Contribute to accelerating market expansion. How do we enable a step change reduction in the cost and time to enter new markets? What new sim capabilities are required?
• Build our Simulator evaluation capabilities. How do we evaluate a simulator for AVs, especially how well it predicts real world self-driving car performance. How do we validate that the simulator supports new scopes?
• Realistic vehicle simulation. How do we ensure that autonomous cars in simulation behave just like they do in the real world, all the good and the bad

Total funding: $11.1bn

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.