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 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.
This role follows a hybrid work schedule and you will report to the Manager of Technical Program Management.
You will:
- Design, define, and drive the Technical Program Management (TPM) strategy for Waymo's Security Trade compliance, encompassing security compliance aspects associated with international import/exports, transportation, and IP protection.
- Coordinate a complex, multidisciplinary program across Legal, Engineering, Hardware, Security, and Google partners to implement and enforce required physical and digital import and export control restrictions.
- Structure and manage the execution of a range of global trade compliance projects in close conjunction with Legal.
- Proactively work with Legal to address trade compliance risks related to Waymo’s data, technology and confidential intellectual property (IP), and work with internal stakeholders to develop and implement appropriate mitigation strategies.
- Establish clear, standardized processes and measurable metrics to report on the status, risks, and dependencies of the trade compliance program to leadership and stakeholders.
- Organize and drive international trade workstreams, bringing clarity to complex, ambiguous, and novel geopolitical challenges that impact Waymo's supply chain and deployment plans.
You have:
- Experience with understanding cross-functional perspectives and navigating ambiguity. Ability to identify and create streamlined processes to support a growing company.
- Execution-oriented individual with strong interpersonal, communication, and team skills.
- Extensive technical background and understanding of autonomous vehicle technology, e.g., sensor hardware, AI/machine learning software and/or export controlled technologies.
- Understanding of semiconductor product life cycle.
- A proven track record of successfully managing complex technical projects involving international trade, import/export, or government regulatory compliance programs.
- 5+ years of experience as a Technical Program Manager or similar role in a hardware or highly regulated environment.
We prefer:
- Experience defining and implementing trade security policies (e.g., deemed export, technology control plans) within a technology or defense sector company
- Familiarity with autonomous driving or robotics projects
- A background that includes working directly with Legal, Government Affairs, Supply Chain, Product, and Engineering organizations to enforce technical compliance requirements
- Prior experience defining and tracking technical risk related to product development life cycles, supply chain security or hardware vulnerability management
- Experience with export control classifications (e.g., U.S. EAR,, ECL ) for technology components
- Fluent in English and another prolific EMEA or APAC language
Travel requirement:
- Estimating 5-10% international travel may be required as part of this role
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.
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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.
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