Insurance Risk Management Analyst

Waymo; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus program

Equity incentive plan

Benefits program

Job summary

Waymo is seeking a hybrid Insurance Operations role within the Legal team to manage underwriting data for renewals, COI requests, and compliance checks across all lines of business.

You will review binders and invoices, collaborate with Legal, Compliance, and Operations, and coordinate with external brokers and insurers to ensure timely, accurate risk management processes.

Qualifications

• Exceptional attention to detail and strong organizational skills.
• Proactive, solution-oriented mindset with ability to manage competing priorities.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills across internal and external partners.
• Analytical, quantitative aptitude; comfortable with spreadsheets and risk management data.

Responsibilities

• Lead collection, compilation, and validation of underwriting data for insurance renewals across all lines of business.
• Manage Certificate of Insurance (COI) requests and review COIs for compliance with risk standards.
• Review insurance binders, endorsements, policy docs, and premium invoicing for accuracy against terms.
• Partner with Legal, Compliance, Operations as the point of contact for routine insurance inquiries.
• Coordinate day-to-day processes with external partners, including brokers and insurers.

Skills

Attention to detail

Proactive mindset

Communication skills

Analytical aptitude

Education

Bachelor's degree in Risk Management, Finance, Business Administration, Economics

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 to the Head of Insurance Infrastructure

You will:

• Lead the collection, compilation, and validation of underwriting data for insurance renewals across all lines of business.

• Manage Certificate of Insurance (COI) requests and review incoming vendor/contractor COIs to ensure compliance with Waymo's risk management standards.

• Review insurance binders, endorsements, policy documentation, and premium invoicing to verify precision against negotiated program terms and retentions.

• Partner cross-functionally with internal teams (Legal, Compliance, Operations) as the point of contact for routine insurance inquiries and requirements.

• Coordinate day-to-day processes with external partners, including insurance brokers, insurers, and other parties.

You have:

• Exceptional attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and a thorough approach towards operational deliverables.

• A proactive, solution-oriented mindset and the ability to independently manage competing priorities with tight deadlines

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate insurance requirements and collaborate effectively across diverse internal and external partners.

• Commercial insurance operations experience within a corporate risk management department, commercial insurance brokerage, or underwriting organization.

• Analytical and quantitative aptitude, comfortable navigating spreadsheets and AI tools to analyze Waymo's insurance and risk management programs.

We prefer:

• Experience working within innovative, fast-paced technology, and dynamic environments.

• Working knowledge of contractual risk transfer, indemnity clauses, and insurance compliance monitoring.

• Professional insurance certifications or progress toward designations (e.g., ARM, CPCU, CRIS, or equivalent).

• Bachelor's degree in Risk Management, Finance, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field.

Travel Required:

• 5%

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

$125,000—$152,000 USD