Program Manager, Expansion

Waymo; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 159,000 - 196,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity

Benefits program

Job summary

Waymo is seeking a seasoned Program Manager to drive expansion initiatives and market launches for the Waymo Driver. The role focuses on cross-functional planning, risk management, and ensuring timely delivery across Product, Engineering, GTM, Legal, and Operations.

You will lead programs to extend Waymo's reach into new markets and capabilities, coordinating with senior leadership and execution teams while building scalable workflows and process foundations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing highly complex cross-functional programs.
• Experience driving large programs with cross-functional dependencies across orgs.
• Strong leadership and communication in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and launch expansion programs for new markets and capabilities.
• Govern plans and critical path for market launches.
• Coordinate deliverables across Product, Engineering, GTM, Legal, and Operations.
• Identify and mitigate short- and long-term business risks and blockers.

Skills

Cross-functional programs

Program leadership

Stakeholder management

Strategic planning

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.

Waymo’s Technical Program Managers and Program Managers are accountable for Waymo’s roadmap execution by providing thoughtful cross-functional planning, clarity, and proactive risk management. In the face of complex technical and operational challenges with no established playbooks to follow, we act with thoughtful urgency, driving conversations, discussions, and outcomes. Our team partners closely with every function of Waymo to structure, own and drive work towards real-world deployments of the Waymo Driver across platforms and geographies.

This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to the Program Manager Lead, Commercialization and Expansion.

You will:

• Lead and launch expansion programs for new markets and new horizontal / vertical capabilities
• Drive and own plans and critical path for market launch activities
• Orchestrate deliverables, scope and timelines across internal teams including Product, Engineering, GTM, Legal, and Operations
• Establish new or improve existing workflows and processes to build a strong foundation for the org to grow and scale
• Proactively identify and reduce both short- and long-term business-critical risks and dependencies
• Keep stakeholders informed and aligned; represent programs from senior leadership to execution teams;escalate effectively when needed to remove blockers

You have:

• 5+ years of experience managing highly complex cross-functional programs
• Experience driving large programs with a holistic understanding of business-wide functions (ie. Product, Eng, Legal, External Engagement, etc) and the ability to manage deliverables between organizations
• Strong leadership skills to manage both upstream and downstream dependencies.
• Clear verbal and written communication, alongside the ability to navigate ambiguity and drive decision-making in a fast-paced environment
• Significant expertise in identifying breakdowns and scaling processes within complex, growing areas that impact the future of the organization and how the team functions.

We prefer:

• Expertise in external partner engagement and market expansion (e.g. scale, commercialization)
• Expertise within SW program management
• Expertise within autonomous vehicles or automotive space
• Experience scaling businesses
• Experience launching in national and international markets
• Experience with road safety, design, or transportation planning

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

$159,000—$196,000 USD