Senior Product Manager, Mapping

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the 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 One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over one million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving tens of millions of miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 13+ U.S. states.

Waymo’s Product Management Team is a mission-driven team responsible for writing and enacting first-of-their-kind playbooks to bring fully autonomous driving technology to market. Our team develops simple solutions for complex problems by orchestrating cross-functional efforts to safely drive Waymo’s technology and the products it enables forward. We do this by understanding the customer, the business, and the technology. We are humble about the scope of our work, collaborative in our approach to problem-solving, and ambitious about our vision for the future.

In this role, you will report to a Director of Product Management

You Will

• Play a critical role in making Waymo’s AV maps as useful as possible by creating software, processes, and metrics that augment the representation of the world with incredibly useful information that lets onboard and offboard models and teams talk to one another
• Manage a geospatial database of information that improves the Waymo Drivers’ understanding of the world around it
• Own portions of the software that lets Waymo vehicles “talk to” each other both instantaneously and with persistent messages
• Create infrastructure and logic that manages tradeoffs like the credibility of data provenance against the freshness of newer, less validated data. This is an example--articulating other tradeoffs and managing them will be an important challenge
• Work with every onboard team and subteam, not to mention much of our offboard organization, to chart the strategic vision for software described above and arc the organization towards that vision
• Partner with teams to understand the impact--positive and negative--of the augmentations described above and create scalable governance structures, metrics, dashboards, and agreements to retain the positive while minimizing the negative

You Have

• 5 years PM experience
• Deep technical acumen of complex, multi-model systems that all need to work together towards common goals
• Track record of excellent stakeholder management to bring disparate parts of an organization together to a common consensus
• “Infrastructure sense”, if not actual experience working on critical infrastructure
• Amazing attention to detail. This isn’t just a “table stakes” skillset that candidates should gloss over--the issues this Product Manager will work with requires deep thinking and consideration of complex spaces.
• Work with scaled organizations--development of processes, metrics, and training to execute your needs

We Prefer

• ML experience; particularly understanding the management of model precision/recall gaps and developing processes to improve on them
• AV experience nice but not required
• Experience with geospatial datasets
• Experience with databases that retain the concept of data provenance and use it in downstream logic

Travel Requirements

• Ability to travel domestically as needed
• Ability to travel internationally ~1x per year

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.

Salary Range

$238,000—$302,000 USD