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 Operations exists to deliver the Waymo Driver to the world. We are a global team building and scaling the world's first and leading autonomous fleet and operations platform. From component sourcing to end customer management, we enable and create value for Waymo through scaled and orchestrated deployment of the Waymo Driver. At Waymo, we are dedicated to building a culture that promotes collaboration and celebration. We value our team members' unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences and support and encourage all team members to share their ideas to help Waymo better serve the communities in which we operate.
The Demand Operations team keeps the pulse on community sentiment and service quality within the Southeast markets. The core function of the Demand Ops Program Manager is to ensure that Waymo maintains a positive presence in the community by minimizing disruptions to events, reporting on market health to internal stakeholders, partnering with Engineering and Product to optimize pickup and dropoff experience at top locations, and build relationships with community members.
This role is remote in Atlanta, GA with travel to other Southeast markets.
You will:
- Proactively identify and mitigate risks associated with large events and minimize service disruptions
- Build reports on overall market health for region and communicate to a variety of stakeholders
- Design and optimize pickup and drop-off experiences at major venues
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key community stakeholders
- Monitor, mitigate and and respond to service quality issues based on rider and community feedback
- Partner with the marketing team to enable key partnerships with the Southeast markets
You have:
- 6+ years of experience in a combination of project management, operations management or program management
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
- Analytical skills and ability to interpret data to drive continuous improvement in Operations
- Thorough local knowledge of Southeast markets (Atlanta, Nashville, Charlotte, New Orleans)
- Experience in risk management and process improvement
- Bachelor's degree
We prefer:
- Proficiency in leveraging data to monitor market health
- Coordinating large events or venue management a for mobility company
- Delivering exceptional customer experience
Travel requirements:
- Candidates should be willing and able to travel up to 50% to other Southeast markets (Atlanta, Nashville, Charlotte, New Orleans).
The expected hourly range for this position 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. 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.
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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.
