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.
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.
You will:
- Maintain a short, medium, and long-term vision and defensible roadmap for the most critical mapping initiatives to drive Waymo’s path to scale
- Work closely with a team of ML/AI engineers to improve the speed and efficiency of our automated mapping building and maintenance operations
- Develop and hone processes to marry our software to human processes for quality control, labeling, and exceptions management
- Work with onboard Product Managers, Engineers, and Systems Engineers to ensure that the evolution of our maps’ contents are aligned with our Driver capabilities
- Coordinate the launch and rollout of automated models and mapping software
You have:
- 5+ years of experience as a PM, or 3+ years of PM and 2+ as a SWE in a relevant field.
- Experience managing quality/delivery of a critical database utilized by numerous consumers/subscribers
- Experience in some kind of mission-critical capacity (i.e. impacting critical revenue, safety, or brand-safety metrics)
- Responsible for delivery of constantly delivered outputs on a set schedule with SLAs for internal and/or external customers, and with the expectation of continuous and significant improvement on those metrics
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills, gathering requirements from disparate technical and/or product areas
We prefer:
- Experience working in mapping or geospatial projects (AR/VR, visual/geospatial AI)
- Experience working with scaled people operations (large teams of vendors/contractors/teams). Labeling for AI/ML applications is sufficient if accompanied by deep AI/ML experience.
- Experience working with technical / complex workflows involving complex/subjective policies
- Skillsets in querying/analyzing data from large datasets and interpreting and visualizing results
- Capable of making tradeoffs between system/team quality (e.g. precision/recall) and system/team efficiency (e.g. compute/latency)
The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.
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.
Salary Range
$238,000—$302,000 USD
Top Skills
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.
