Strategy Manager

Waymo; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 259,000; Full time

Job summary

Waymo is seeking a seasoned Strategy & BizOps professional in Mountain View to lead go-to-market initiatives and high-impact business analyses. The role emphasizes rigorous quantitative and qualitative assessment, financial modeling, and presenting insights to leadership within a hybrid work framework.

You will collaborate across technical and commercial teams, drive value-driver analyses, and deliver actionable recommendations to senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Structured problem solving to handle ambiguous problems.
• Strong analytical skills, including financial modeling and data analytics.
• Excellent cross-functional communication.
• Experience with fast-paced startup environments.
• Minimum 5 years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Drive go-to-market / commercial strategy projects with broad scope and significant company impact.
• Conduct rigorous qualitative or quantitative analysis and distill insights.
• Engage in cross-functional stakeholder management.
• Advance business modeling and analysis such as value driver and scenario analysis.
• Distill insights and recommendations for leadership.

Skills

Financial analysis

Financial modeling

SQL

Analytical skills

Cross-functional collaboration

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.

The Strategy & BizOps team drives and executes against the company's go-to-market strategy. We leverage quantitative and qualitative analysis to create long-term business strategies and help execute on Waymo's commercial deployment. The team is analytically driven, with a proactive mentality, focused on finding and delivering on high impact projects.

This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to the Director, Strategy and BizOps.

You will:

• Drive go-to-market / commercial strategy projects with broad scope and significant company impact
• Conduct rigorous qualitative or quantitative analysis and effectively distilling insights (”so what”) from them
• Engage in cross-functional stakeholder management, aligning various perspectives and inputs from technical and commercial functions
• Advance business modeling and analysis such as value driver and scenario analysis responsibilities
• Distill insights and recommendations for leadership

You have:

• Structured problem solving - know how to solve ambiguous problems, up-level and not get lost in details
• Analytical skillset - comfortable with various modes of quantitative analysis (e.g. financial modeling, data analytics, SQL), and capable of presenting up-leveled insights for executive audiences
  • Must-haves are financial analysis and modeling
• Strong relationship building and communication skills
• Comfort in a fast-paced and rapidly evolving “startup” work environment
• Background: familiar with project based work, frequent shift of focus and topics, learning new content quickly (typical for consulting or bizops / chief of staff functions in tech companies)
• Collaborative, team-oriented mindset
• At least 5 years experience

We prefer:

• Operational experience in a tech company (e.g., Chief of Staff, BizOps & Strategy, etc.)
• Consulting or finance background (if consulting, with some financial modeling experience) AND experience in a tech company, especially with products that have a physical component (e.g., transportation, supply chain, proptech)
• Experience in relevant industries (e.g., Ride Hailing, Trucking, Delivery)
• Experience with commercialization / go-to-market strategy (e.g., pricing, partner strategy)

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

$210,000—$259,000 USD