Senior Product Manager, Waymo

• 5 years PM experience
• Experience iterating on models over the course of 12+ months
• Experience in launching new model architectures, model consolidation, or Foundational Model distillation
• Experience optimizing models for compute efficiency
• Technical fluency in Perception or related field

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 and you will report to a Senior Product Manager
• Act as an approver for model launches, understanding and negotiating between trade offs, regressions, and improvements across all of a model’s surface area
• Plan for future investments into model capabilities on a 12+ month timeline by understanding the limitations of the current model architecture and the immediate needs of our Ride Hailing business
• Set the vision for our Object Generation model architecture on a 12-36 month timeline by understanding the overall needs of Waymo and the current State of the Art ML/AI research
• Manage the execution of upcoming milestones by working directly with a group of 20+ engineers, Technical Program Managers, and other Product Managers
• Conduct root cause analysis and conferring with partners in Engineering to propose viable solutions by examining AV behavior from a mix of real world, synthetic, and simulated events