Program Manager, Waymo

• Experience in Regulatory Compliance / Risk Frameworks: Demonstrated experience working with regulatory compliance or risk frameworks, with an understanding of how to interpret and apply regulations in a business context or how to make representations about business activities to a regulatory audience
• Data Analysis Proficiency (Excel / Google Sheets): Ability to use basic data analysis tools (such as Excel or Google Sheets) to analyze datasets, identify trends, catalog discrepancies, and support compliance activities
• Effective Collaboration: Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners to navigate challenging and ambiguous work streams in support of compliance objectives
• Process Evaluation and Issue Spotting: Experience in evaluating the effectiveness of business processes, proactively identifying potential compliance gaps, risks, or areas of non-conformance
• Process Improvement and Automation: Practical experience developing and implementing process improvements, such as through the design of automated monitoring or control systems to enhance compliance efficiency and effectiveness and through the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools
• Responsiveness and Agility: Demonstrated experience in handling multiple ongoing projects or deliverables and ability to remain responsive and flexible in a fast-moving environment with tight deadlines

Desirable

• 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 to the Senior Program Manager, AV Compliance - Regulatory Response and Compliance Monitoring
• Monitoring: Continuously track key metrics to gauge operational risk and effectiveness of AV compliance controls. This includes monitoring for new or changing Waymo, regulatory or internal business requirements
• Assessment: Assist in the execution of periodic, risk-based assessments of internal compliance controls, focusing on testing the design and operating effectiveness of those controls
• Regulatory Response: Lead or support the response to regulatory inquiries, investigations, and requests for information, including through drafting portions of external-facing reports and assisting in preparation for virtual presentations to regulators about sensitive events
• Quality Assurance: Assist lines-of-business with designing effective compliance controls, including data quality assurance systems that mitigate risk of non-compliance through incomplete or inaccurate data
• Partner with Compliance: Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for regulatory compliance requirements during third-party partner assurance activities