Legal Counsel - UK

Waymo; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 155,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity incentives

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Waymo is seeking an experienced UK-based in-house Counsel to support its UK market entry and ongoing operations in a hybrid role reporting to the Managing Counsel. You will advise on regulatory, corporate governance and transactional matters, collaborate with policy, product, and operations teams, and engage with UK regulators to shape policy and protect Waymo’s interests.

This role requires a UK law degree and admission, plus at least 5 years of practice, ideally with international tech

Qualifications

• UK solicitor or barrister qualification required.
• Minimum 5 years of legal practice experience.
• Experience with international tech companies entering UK market.
• Experience engaging with UK regulators.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on legal services for Waymo’s UK market.
• Advise on regulatory, governance and corporate matters.
• Collaborate with policy, product, and operations teams.
• Represent Waymo in interactions with local agencies.
• Support cross-functional global teams on UK laws.

Skills

Regulatory compliance

Contract negotiation

Cross-border advisory

Public policy liaison

Education

Law degree

Job description

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.

As part of Waymo's Legal team, you will work on the exciting legal issues surrounding our transformational autonomous driving technology and help drive our business lines forward from technology ideation through scaled commercial deployment. We partner with our public policy, safety, security and privacy experts to define transportation policy for the autonomous driving world to come, advising on regulatory changes that support and protect our users around the world. We collaborate with our engineering, product, strategy and operations teams to develop and protect our intellectual property portfolio and drive our corporate and commercial transactions. We ensure compliance with an increasingly complex and dynamic range of global regulations. And we anticipate, mitigate, and litigate high-profile and precedent-setting legal matters.

In this hybrid role, you will report into our Managing Counsel.

You will:

• Provide a full range of hands on legal services in support of Waymo’s success in the UK, including, advising on a variety of legal matters associated with Waymo’s UK market entry and on-going operations, providing legal advice and guidance on a variety of UK specific negotiations and advocacy initiatives, and handling UK specific dispute resolutions.
• Provide strategic legal guidance to key cross-functional internal stakeholders on a wide range of legal, business, corporate strategy and governance issues relevant to the UK.
• Work closely with key partners such as public policy and public affairs, product counsels, regulatory counsels, communications, compliance, strategy, operations, and other Waymo teams to jointly develop and implement winning strategies, including representing Waymo in interactions with local agencies and organizations as required.
• Support cross-functional global teams with navigating country/region specific laws and regulations, including coordinating internally and externally to closely monitor, review, report on, and potentially shape new or changing laws and regulations in the UK relevant to Waymo’s business.
• Gain subject matter expertise in new areas as novel UK issues and topics emerge.
• Support compliance and other corporate governance tasks related to the UK.

You have:

• Law degree (LLB, LLM or JD)
• Admitted to practice law as a Solicitor or Barrister in the UK
• Experience assisting international technology companies with introducing new products and services into the UK
• Experience engaging UK regulators and other authorities on a range of topics
• At least 5 years of experience practicing law

We prefer:

• Experience working in the automotive industry or ride-hailing industry in the UK
• Experience working as an in house counsel in the UK
• Demonstrated experience working with international legal teams and clients
• At least 7 years of experience practicing law, with at least 3 year of experience as an in house counsel

The expected base salary range for this full-time position 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. 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

£155,000—£163,000 GBP