Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the 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 One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over one million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving tens of millions of miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 13+ U.S. states.
Join our People Team to recruit and support the world's best talent! Our team enables Waymo to achieve our mission by cultivating a culture and environment to unlock our employee's potential. We take our role as champions of Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity and stewards of our culture seriously.
In this hybrid in-office role, you will report to our HR Business Partner Director and be based in Warsaw, Poland.
You will:
- Partner with leaders and HR teams to execute HR strategies and processes, ensuring alignment with global standards and local needs.
- Advise leaders on HR matters, providing local context and expertise.
- Ensure compliance with local regulations and support the delivery of our People plan in partnership with US HRBPs and Employment Legal.
- Drive hiring outcomes from sourcing to offer, acting as a subject-matter expert and advisor to leaders.
- Develop and execute sourcing strategies to attract top technical talent, leveraging various channels and building a strong pipeline.
- Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout the hiring process.
- Identify gaps in local hiring processes and work with leaders and HR teams to address them.
You have:
- BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years relevant work experience, including HR experience working in tech companies in Central and Eastern Europe.
- 7+ years of experience doing full life cycle recruiting including tech companies.
- Experience with Eastern European labor laws and market compliance requirements, including advising on and supporting local disciplinary processes and organizational structures.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in both English and Polish, with a proven ability to connect with and inform individuals from diverse backgrounds and levels of understanding.
- Experience recruiting for highly technical profiles, including sourcing, engaging, and closing software engineering talent.
- Experience extracting meaningful insights from data, identifying trends, and translating analysis into actionable recommendations that drive informed decision-making.
- Experience working directly with senior engineering leadership.
We prefer:
- Balanced experience working in a startup and established global company environments in growth mode with high recruiting volume.
- Local expertise (Poland market) to be able to provide expert local advice if and when needed.
- Proven ability to build consensus and achieve mutually beneficial outcomes through collaborative negotiation.
- Work cross-functionally and collaboratively across teams and act as a trusted advisor to leadership at all levels.
- Demonstrated experience influencing through relationships, expertise and data and can manage a complex set of partners.
- Demonstrated comfort level with switching between complex strategy discussions and tactical level work; balance of tailoring solutions and standardization.
- Prior experience with Greenhouse ATS and/or GEM CRM.
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What We Do
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around. With the Waymo Driver, we can improve the world’s mobility while saving thousands of lives.
Waymo reaches out to candidates from official channels only (e.g. directly from @waymo.com email addresses, or through our recruiters or sourcers who are noted as such on LinkedIn). We do not contact candidates about career opportunities through instant messaging apps like Telegram, email addresses from domains other than waymo.com (such as Gmail addresses), direct messages on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, or text messages. Visit waymo.com to check out our official job listings.
