Business Analyst
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.
The Strategy & BizOps team drives and executes against the company’s go-to-market strategy. We leverage quantitative and qualitative analysis to create long-term business strategies and help execute on Waymo’s commercial deployment. The team is analytically driven, with a proactive mentality, focused on finding and delivering on high impact projects.
This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to the Director of Business Operations.
You will:
- Drive research outcomes, analyze current business and industry trends, and support the development and execution of business strategies
- Lead efforts on business analyses to translate data into actionable insights
- Work with cross-functional teams to push work forward and drive successful outcomes
- Communicate business results and related findings to senior leadership and to the broader organization by delivering presentations and addressing key takeaways
- Contribute to analysis scoping, manage priorities in alignment with multiple work streams, and allocate resources
- Generate the ideas required to solve a problem and take full ownership of the solution for our Ridehail Business
You have:
- 5-10 years of experience in analytical roles, with a keen interest in advocating for the solutions your analysis produces
- Exceptional quantitative and analytical modeling skills (e.g., advanced Excel / Google Sheets, SQL required) and the ability to build data-driven business cases
- Strong communication and collaboration skills and comfort presenting to senior leadership
- The ability to guidance in business and data analytics, statistical methods, and business context to one or more client organizations
- Unending curiosity about the metrics you set out to investigate and a desire to keep pulling the thread until you’ve figured out what’s going on
We prefer:
- Experience in a high-growth technology or mobility company
- Ability to create ad hoc dashboards for your own or small group use, ability to leverage Python, R or similar languages to facilitate statistical analysis
- Experience with commercialization / go-to-market strategy (e.g., pricing, partner strategy) and helping facilitate a company’s P&L
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.