Senior Product Manager - Fleet Resilience & Reliability

Waymo LLC; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 241,000 - 297,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus program

Equity incentive plan

Generous benefits program

Job summary

Waymo is seeking a senior Product Manager to own the strategy and roadmap for a safe, scalable autonomous fleet. You will partner with engineering, data science, and safety teams to shape onboard behaviors and fleet-level automation, translating events into prioritized product decisions.

You will lead cross-functional programs, align executives, and define success metrics for rare events while supporting expansion into new markets and platforms.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of product management experience (or 5+ years PM plus significant prior engineering experience), including owning highly technical products end to end.
• Track record of leading large, ambiguous, cross-functional programs that span several engineering orgs and operations teams, and getting senior stakeholders aligned
• Strong analytical skills: able to break down large, messy datasets and incident data into risk-based priorities and crisp product decisions
• Proven ability to go deep technically with engineers on complex distributed or safety-critical systems, and to push back with data
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including writing for executives and leading through crisis-style, high-stakes situations

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for how Waymo's autonomous fleet stays safe and keeps running through large-scale, fleet-wide disruptions
• Define product requirements for onboard behaviors and for the fleet-level automation that detect, contain, and recover from these events
• Turn real-world event data into a clear, prioritized view and make principled trade-offs
• Lead a large, cross-functional, cross-org effort and drive alignment up to senior leadership
• Define success metrics and evaluation strategies for end-to-end, fleet-level performance during rare events, and decide when mitigations can be relaxed as performance improves
• Scale fleet resilience to new markets, platforms and international cities as Waymo expands

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Technical product management

Executive communication

Crisis/incident management

Data-driven decision making

Education

BS in Computer Science or Engineering

MS/PhD or MBA preferred

Tools

SQL

Python

Job description

Waymo is seeking a senior Product Manager to own the strategy and roadmap for a safe, scalable autonomous fleet. You will partner with engineering, data science, and safety teams to shape onboard behaviors and fleet-level automation, translating events into prioritized product decisions.

You will lead cross-functional programs, align executives, and define success metrics for rare events while supporting expansion into new markets and platforms.