Technical Program Manager, Commercialization
Job Overview
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 reports and you will report to a Director of Technical Program Management.
You will:
- Lead critical cross-functional programs across Product, Ops, Design, and Engineering, establishing or improving workflows and processes where needed
- Prioritize, manage, and drive issues, risks and dependencies; resolve misalignments with overall scope and schedule
- Keep stakeholders across Waymo informed and aligned; represent programs to senior leadership and partner with them to remove blockers
- Prioritize projects across the portfolio, ensuring scope, time, budget is defined and aligned
You have:
- 5+ years of experience as a Technical Program Manager
- Track record of managing complex programs where precision and attention to detail are critical to success
- Experience driving large cross-functional programs with a holistic understanding of business-wide functions (ie. Product, Eng, External Engagement, etc)
- Strong leadership skills, and clear verbal and written communication, alongside the ability to navigate ambiguity and drive decision-making
- Expertise in scaling processes within complex, growing areas
We prefer:
- Experience with software program management
- Expertise within the autonomous vehicle or automotive industries
- Expertise with Operations/Supply Chain software development programs
- Expertise with mobile app and UX development programs