Product Manager, Vehicle at Waymo

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 the Manager of Product Management. You will: • Manage 1-2 vehicle programs as the Lead Vehicle Product Manager • Author Product vision and requirement documents (PRDs) and develop strategic vehicle content recommendations • Analyze vehicle trade-offs based on data, insights and trends • Evaluate and execute change request for the active fleet with quick turnaround times • Work with Engineering, Industrial Design and Operations to execute vehicle features and attributes throughout the development cycle. This requires leading large cross functional teams (w/ 20+ stakeholders) • Represent Product Management in external meetings, interact with OEMs and suppliers You have: • Undergrad degree in Engineering or Business • Automotive industry experience - 5 years or more (Engineering, Product or Program Management) • Strong customer and fleet operations advocate • Strategic and analytical skills. Ability to gather and analyze large quantities of information, and turn them into a thoughtful and compelling product vision, and detailed requirements in Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) • Strong collaboration and communication skills, experience in leading large cross-functional teams (w/ 20+ stakeholders) • Flourish in ambiguity, good at problem stating and problem solving, and effectively delivering to them in a fast-changing environment We prefer: • 3+ years of product management experience • Automotive vehicle development background • Masters degree - MBA or Engineering Travel requirements: • Up to 30% of capacity, domestic and international 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—$252,000 USD