Program Manager, Driver and Vehicle Compliance

Waymo; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 137,000 - 169,000; Full time

Job summary

Waymo, Mountain View, CA, is seeking a Regulatory Compliance professional within its Legal team for a hybrid role reporting to a Senior Program Manager. You will help govern compliance for autonomous-vehicle programs, collaborating with policy, safety, security, privacy, and engineering stakeholders.

Responsibilities include vendor coordination, automating internal processes to meet evolving regulatory requirements, and defining KPIs to monitor performance.

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of regulatory compliance experience or work with a legal team, preferably in safety-focused or fleet-related settings.
• Experience managing vendors, contractors, and extended workforce with compliance monitoring.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication attention to detail.
• Ability to identify gaps and issues in processes.
• Highly collaborative, creative, organized, with action-oriented problem-solving.
• Ability to turn repetitive tasks into automated workflows.

Responsibilities

• Partner with vendors for autonomous vehicles and operations to support compliance of Waymo’s growing fleet.
• Create and/or automate internal compliance processes to meet regulatory requirements in evolving markets.
• Identify opportunities and implement KPIs to monitor vendor performance.
• Work with regional teams and regulators; build processes and strategies with vendors to support regulatory requirements.
• Document compliance processes and communicate to vendors and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Waymo’s software development team to create scalable regulatory solutions.

Skills

Regulatory compliance

Vendor management

Attention to detail

Gap analysis

Collaboration

Automation of workflows

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

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.

$137,000 — $169,000 USD