Product Manager, Waymo Driver Validation

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 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.

This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to a Group Product Manager

You will:

• Define and deliver on the roadmap for mileage collection to validate the performance of the Waymo Driver to support domestic multi-city and international expansion


• Collaborate with operations to understand usability pain points and mileage collection inefficiencies, and develop features to mitigate them


• Work directly with PMs in other functional areas and teams groups to understand how our systems need to evolve to support rapid expansion


• Define and own business metrics for Waymo Driver validation and expansion


• Deeply understand complex operational, engineering, system-level pain points, and turn these insights into a crisp roadmap


• Own prioritization decisions between projects on the roadmap, often under ambiguous circumstances

You have:

• Strong technical PM skills (whether supported via a technical degree or aptitude demonstrated in prior technical roles)


• Ability to deeply understand complex workflows, identify pain points, and clearly prioritize them


• Ability to translate company-level outcomes to team-level outcomes and build a product roadmap to achieve those outcomes


• Direct ownership/ accountability to highly technical infrastructure outcomes


• Experience collaborating directly with operations, UX teams and Data Science teams

We prefer:

• Prior AV experience


• Prior experience working on highly scaled web services, technical infrastructure, and platforms


• Prior experience with routing algorithms


• Prior experience working in complex operational settings (e.g., Amazon, Walmart)


• Experience at a high-growth company helping scale its systems/ pipelines


• Past experience collaborating with geographically distributed teams

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

$204,000—$259,000 USD