Program Manager, New Markets & Platforms
Technologies
Agile · Scrum · Machine Learning · Generative AI · KPI · SLA · Lean · Six Sigma
About Waymo
Builds the Waymo Driver autonomous driving stack and operates Waymo One robotaxi services, using large-scale real-world and simulated driving data to expand safely across cities.
Growth
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increasingly powered by AI, to deliver the crucial insights necessary to confidently deploy and grow Waymo's autonomous vehicle service. This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to a SWQ Ops Triage Program Manager Team Lead. This role will lead a team of 5 and requires prior leadership experience. Waymo is undergoing unprecedented growth, rapidly expanding into new cities and launching new vehicle platforms. SWQOps plays a critical role in this expansion, making it possible to scale safely and efficiently. We are on the front lines of: De-risking New Deployments: Through meticulous triage of driving events, issue discovery, and continuous field monitoring, SWQOps provides early warnings and critical insights. This "early intervention in RO issue detection" ensures operational resilience and safety, particularly in new and complex environments, which is critical as Waymo
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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 Software Quality Operations (SWQ Ops) team is at the heart of ensuring the safety, reliability, and quality of the Waymo Driver. Our mission is to build an adaptable and scalable operation, increasingly powered by AI, to deliver the crucial insights necessary to confidently deploy and grow Waymo's autonomous vehicle service. This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to a SWQ Ops Triage Program Manager Team Lead. This role will lead a team of 5 and requires prior leadership experience. Waymo is undergoing unprecedented growth, rapidly expanding into new cities and launching new vehicle platforms. SWQOps plays a critical role in this expansion, making it possible to scale sa [... source excerpt omitted ...] chnology, enabling faster ODD expansion, quicker remediation of driving issues, and a significant reduction in the engineering effort required to maintain and improve the driver. You will: Drive outcomes for programs that span multiple orgs. Responsible for long term forecasting and resource planning. Be responsible for standing up new workflows and scaling existing workflows to support new market expansions. Translate complex human operations into scaled and reliable operations, bringing key insights to customers at highest quality. Communicate overall program status, risks and current priorities to stakeholders. Drive tradeoff decisions making across functions. Define prog [... source excerpt omitted ...] aymo 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. Salary Range $159,000—$196,000 USD
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