Program Manager, Driver and Vehicle Compliance

Waymo; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 137,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity incentives

Benefits program

Job summary

Waymo is seeking a regulatory compliance professional to join the Legal team in a hybrid role reporting to a Senior Program Manager. The role involves partnering with vendors, building compliant processes, and driving regulatory alignment across evolving markets, including California.

You will help ensure Waymo’s operations meet safety and regulatory standards while collaborating with engineering, product, strategy, and operations teams.

Qualifications

• At least 4 years in regulatory compliance or on a legal team, or in active partnership with either, preferably in safety-focused or vehicle fleet contexts.
• Experience managing or working with vendors, contractors, and extended workforce partners to ensure compliance.
• Exceptional attention to detail in written and verbal communication.
• Demonstrable ability to gap-find or issue-spot processes.
• Highly collaborative, creative, and organized with action-oriented problem solving.
• Ability to conceptualize turning repetitive tasks into automated workflows.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Waymo’s vendors for autonomous vehicles and operations to support compliance of growing fleet.
• Create and/or automate internal compliance processes to meet regulatory requirements in evolving markets.
• Identify opportunities for and implement KPIs and metrics to monitor vendor performance.
• Work independently and with a regionally focused team on building connections to AV regulatory agencies and vendors to meet regulator-defined requirements.
• Document compliance processes and communicate to vendors and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Waymo’s software development team to create scalable regulatory solutions.

Skills

Attention to detail

Gap finding

Collaboration

Problem solving

Automation mindset

Regulatory/compliance familiarity

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 a Senior Program Manager.

You will

• Partner with Waymo’s vendors for autonomous vehicles and operations, performing daily and weekly tasks to support the compliance of Waymo’s growing fleet
• Create and/or automate internal compliance processes to meet regulatory requirements in evolving markets
• Identify opportunities for and then implement KPIs and other metrics to monitor and assess vendor performance
• Work independently and as part of a regionally focused team on building and maintaining connections to AV regulatory agencies and build processes and strategies with vendors to support requirements as defined by regulators
• Document compliance processes and requirements and communicate to vendors and stakeholders
• Partner closely with Waymo’s proprietary software development team to create consistent and scalable solutions for regulatory processes

You have

• At least 4 years experience working in a regulatory compliance role or on a legal team, or in active partnership with either, preferably at a safety-focused or vehicle fleet-related organization
• Experience directly managing or working with vendors, contractors, and other similar extended workforce partners, including monitoring and managing to ensure compliance requirements or other measurable business needs are consistently met
• Exceptional attention to detail, both in written and verbal communication
• Demonstrable ability to gap find or issue spot processes
• Highly collaborative, creative, and organized, with action-oriented problem solving skills
• Ability to conceptualize turning repetitive tasks into automated workflows

We prefer

• Technical aptitude with ability to quickly learn proprietary software
• Demonstrable ability to work in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment
• High EQ with personally responsible, team player mentality
• Experience working with regulators in the transportation industry, preferably in California and/or with a focus on autonomous vehicles
• Ability to perform both manual, tedious tasks, and to own the conceptualization and operationalization new processes that improve and/or close gaps in existing flows
• Experience managing a vehicle compliance program, ideally during company growth

Salary Range

$137,000—$169,000 USD

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.