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’s Technical Program Managers and Program Managers are accountable for Waymo’s roadmap execution by providing thoughtful cross-functional planning, clarity, and proactive risk management. In the face of complex technical and operational challenges with no established playbooks to follow, we act with thoughtful urgency, driving conversations, discussions, and outcomes. Our team partners closely with every function of Waymo to structure, own and drive work towards real-world deployments of the Waymo Driver across platforms and geographies.
You will:
- Lead cross-functional technical programs to integrate Waymo's autonomous service with third-party platforms.
- Own the technical delivery of external integrations end-to-end, from creating the cross-functional execution plan to defining the process for ensuring continued quality post-launch.
- Serve as the primary execution counterpart for external teams, translating an ambiguous set of work into clearly defined deliverables, owners, and schedule.
- Drive technical trade-off decisions across scope, schedule, scalability, and user experience.
- Proactively identify, prioritize, and mitigate risks and dependencies across multiple concurrent partner programs, and represent them to executive leadership.
- Build the scalable frameworks, processes, and tooling that let Waymo onboard and operate many partner integrations without a linear increase in effort.
You have:
- 7+ years of experience leading highly complex, cross-functional technical programs with a holistic understanding of business-wide functions (e.g. Product, Engineering, Business Development, Operations).
- A track record of shipping consumer-facing software products and features, with demonstrated ownership of the execution from kickoff through launch and post-launch operations.
- Experience running programs where critical dependencies sit with teams outside your direct influence, and a track record of getting them to deliver.
- Strong technical depth: you can read a system design, hold your own in architecture and API discussions with engineers, and tease out the scope, schedule, and risk implications of each option to drive the decision.
- Deep care for the end user, with the ability to keep rider experience and quality at the center of technically complex, multi-party programs.
- Exceptional communication and leadership skills, with demonstrated ability to align diverse internal teams and external partners and influence executive stakeholders.
We prefer:
- Experience with external-facing integrations, platform APIs, or B2B2C products where another company's engineering team was a critical dependency.
- Experience in rideshare, mobility, delivery, two-sided marketplaces, or other products where software coordinates physical operations in real time.
- Experience launching products or integrations in multiple geographies, including navigating localization, payments, and regulatory requirements.
- Familiarity with defining quality gates, testing plans, SLAs, and launch readiness processes for systems shared with external teams.
Travel requirements:
- Occasional travel for partner working sessions or market launches
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
- 7+ years leading highly complex, cross-functional technical programs
- Holistic understanding of Product, Engineering, Business Development, and Operations functions
- Track record of shipping consumer-facing software products and features from kickoff through launch and post-launch operations
- Experience managing programs with critical dependencies on teams outside direct influence
- Strong technical depth, including reading system designs and participating in architecture and API discussions
- Ability to assess scope, schedule, and risk implications of technical options
- Strong focus on end-user experience and product quality
- Exceptional communication and leadership skills
- Ability to align internal teams, external partners, and executive stakeholders
- Experience with external-facing integrations, platform APIs, or B2B2C products
- Experience in rideshare, mobility, delivery, two-sided marketplaces, or products coordinating physical operations in real time
- Experience launching products or integrations across multiple geographies
- Experience navigating localization, payments, and regulatory requirements
- Familiarity with quality gates, testing plans, SLAs, and launch readiness processes for systems shared with external teams
Waymo Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Waymo and has not been reviewed or approved by Waymo.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered strong for full‑time technical roles, aligning with top‑tier AV/Big Tech benchmarks. Employer materials also emphasize competitive pay with eligibility for bonuses and equity as part of total rewards.
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Healthcare Strength — Coverage spans medical, dental, vision, mental‑health resources, onsite wellness centers, and counseling, with specialized programs such as menopause and transgender medical advocacy. Dependents are included, indicating depth across core health needs.
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Parental & Family Support — Offerings include fertility and family‑forming assistance, parental and baby‑bonding leave, caregiver and elder‑care support, and backup childcare. These programs are positioned to support families through multiple life stages.
Waymo Insights
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.
