Waymo’s People team recruits and supports the world’s best talent (including, we hope, you). Our HR business partners, program administrators, staffers, and compensation specialists help our employees attain their full potential in a healthy, considerate and supportive environment. We take seriously our role as champions of Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity (EID) and stewards of the unique Waymo culture. 

In this role you'll:

• Lead the design, contribute to the strategy, and drive implementation and delivery of our employee engagement programs at Waymo, including our annual employee engagement survey and emerging pulse survey needs. Support action planning at all levels of Waymo to positively influence employee engagement and experience.
• Participate in the design, implementation, delivery, and measurement of our Future of Work initiatives, helping us set and evolve best practices for working across office-based, hybrid, and remote/distributed work modalities.
• Lead or contribute to other projects and programs related to employee engagement, performance management, organizational health and culture, process improvement, or people operations.
• Cultivate collaborative relationships and partner with various teams and stakeholders across the company to understand and prioritize business needs, recommend solutions, and be a catalyst for implementing meaningful improvements.
• Exercise thought leadership to create, enhance, or deprecate practices and processes, with the key objective of supporting best-in-class, right-sized people programs at Waymo.
• Analyze and interpret program-related data to inform program recommendations, and bring those recommendations to life.

At a minimum we'd like you to have:

• BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of work experience in Program Management, Consulting, HR or Business Operations
• Proven program management skills, from strategy and design through to execution and measurement of complex, large-scale initiatives
• Strong written and verbal communications skills 

It’s preferred if you have:

• Experience managing large complex projects with multiple partners and stakeholders across cross-functional teams; PMP or CCMP certification (or similar) is helpful but not required.
• Strong consulting and analytical skills; ability to look at problems from multiple angles, be a thought leader and a systems thinker, and navigate a fast-moving, ambiguous environment
• Strong relationship building and influencing skills, including at the leadership level, enabling you to make progress and remove roadblocks on your projects, often without direct authority
• Excellent judgment on sensitive, complex, and cross-functional issues, fostering collaboration and building trust with stakeholders at all levels, from individual Waymonauts to our co-CEOs
• Experience with internal and external survey tools (specifically Glint/LinkedIn but also Qualtrics or other platforms)
• Experience with lightweight dashboard or data analytics tools (e.g., Plex, Tableau, DataStudio, spreadsheets, etc.) and proficiency with lightweight data analysis (vLookups, Pivot tables, graphs/charts, etc.)

US-Remote includes employees working from their primary residence in certain locations only, such as Arizona, California, DC, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Washington. This list may not be complete or accurate, and candidates should speak with their recruiter about their specific location for remote work.