Waymo
Product Manager, Waymo Driver Validation
Waymo, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
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Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride‑hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider‑only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.
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 to a Group Product Manager.
You Will
Define and deliver on the roadmap for mileage collection to validate the performance of the Waymo Driver to support domestic multi‑city and international expansion
Collaborate with operations to understand usability pain points and mileage collection inefficiencies, and develop features to mitigate them
Work directly with PMs in other functional areas and team groups to understand how our systems need to evolve to support rapid expansion
Define and own business metrics for Waymo Driver validation and expansion
Deeply understand complex operational, engineering, system‑level pain points, and turn these insights into a crisp roadmap
Own prioritization decisions between projects on the roadmap, often under ambiguous circumstances
You Have
Strong technical PM skills (whether supported via a technical degree or aptitude demonstrated in prior technical roles)
Ability to deeply understand complex workflows, identify pain points, and clearly prioritize them
Ability to translate company‑level outcomes to team‑level outcomes and build a product roadmap to achieve those outcomes
Direct ownership/accountability to highly technical infrastructure outcomes
Experience collaborating directly with operations, UX teams and Data Science teams
We Prefer
Prior AV experience
Prior experience working on highly scaled web services, technical infrastructure, and platforms
Prior experience with routing algorithms
Prior experience working in complex operational settings (e.g., Amazon, Walmart)
Experience at a high‑growth company helping scale its systems/pipelines
Past experience collaborating with geographically distributed teams
Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.
Expected base salary range for this full‑time position across U.S. locations: $204,000—$259,000 USD.
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Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride‑hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider‑only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.
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 to a Group Product Manager.
You Will
Define and deliver on the roadmap for mileage collection to validate the performance of the Waymo Driver to support domestic multi‑city and international expansion
Collaborate with operations to understand usability pain points and mileage collection inefficiencies, and develop features to mitigate them
Work directly with PMs in other functional areas and team groups to understand how our systems need to evolve to support rapid expansion
Define and own business metrics for Waymo Driver validation and expansion
Deeply understand complex operational, engineering, system‑level pain points, and turn these insights into a crisp roadmap
Own prioritization decisions between projects on the roadmap, often under ambiguous circumstances
You Have
Strong technical PM skills (whether supported via a technical degree or aptitude demonstrated in prior technical roles)
Ability to deeply understand complex workflows, identify pain points, and clearly prioritize them
Ability to translate company‑level outcomes to team‑level outcomes and build a product roadmap to achieve those outcomes
Direct ownership/accountability to highly technical infrastructure outcomes
Experience collaborating directly with operations, UX teams and Data Science teams
We Prefer
Prior AV experience
Prior experience working on highly scaled web services, technical infrastructure, and platforms
Prior experience with routing algorithms
Prior experience working in complex operational settings (e.g., Amazon, Walmart)
Experience at a high‑growth company helping scale its systems/pipelines
Past experience collaborating with geographically distributed teams
Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.
Expected base salary range for this full‑time position across U.S. locations: $204,000—$259,000 USD.
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