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.
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.
This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to our Senior Counsel, Head of Employment Legal.
You will:
- Report to the Managing Counsel, Head of Employment Legal, serve as a dedicated employment counsel, responsible for a variety of employment legal matters for Waymo
- Provide advice and pragmatic, business-oriented solutions for a broad range of employment issues, including HR policies, recruiting, personnel actions, dispute resolution, ethics, wage and hour legal compliance, and contingent workforce needs
- Provide legal support for internal investigations concerning potential code of conduct or other violations of internal Waymo policies
- Prevent and resolve employment disputes and respond to agency claims, audits, and/or inquiries
You have:
- Juris Doctor or equivalent degree
- 7+ years of experience practicing employment law representing management at a law firm and/or in-house
- Admitted to the bar and in good standing or otherwise authorized to practice law in California
- Working knowledge of federal and California employment laws
- Experience providing advice to HR and management on a broad range of employment legal issues, including HR policies, personnel actions, wage and hour legal compliance, dispute resolution, workplace safety, and contingent workforce needs
- Willingness and ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional environment on a broad range of legal matters
- Experience interacting with federal and state agencies on employment matters
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to prioritize and manage numerous simultaneous projects under deadline pressure
We prefer:
- Admission to the California Bar
- Expertise advising U.S.-based companies with locations/offices in international locations
- Direct or indirect (e.g., via a secondment) in-house experience
- Experience in labor relations
- Experience advising on international growth strategies
Travel Requirements:
- Travel as required
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.
Skills Required
- Juris Doctor or equivalent degree
- 7+ years of experience practicing employment law
- Admitted to the bar and in good standing to practice law in California
- Working knowledge of federal and California employment laws
- Experience advising HR and management on employment legal issues
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Willingness to work collaboratively in a cross-functional environment
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.
