Product Manager, Vehicle
Role summary
Waymo is seeking a Lead Vehicle Product Manager to join its mission-driven Product Management Team. This role is responsible for bringing fully autonomous driving technology to market by developing simple solutions for complex problems and orchestrating cross-functional efforts. The Product Manager will manage 1-2 vehicle programs, author PRDs, analyze vehicle trade-offs, and execute change requests for the active fleet. This hybrid role requires collaboration with Engineering, Industrial Design, and Operations, and involves leading large cross-functional teams with over 20 stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have a strong customer and fleet operations advocacy, strategic and analytical skills, and experience in the automotive industry.
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 Product Management Team is a mission-driven team responsible for writing and enacting first-of-their-kind playbooks to bring fully autonomous driving technology to market. Our team develops simple solutions for complex problems by orchestrating cross-functional efforts to safely drive Waymo’s technology and the products it enables forward. We do this by understanding the customer, the business, and the technology. We are humble about the scope of our work, collaborative in our approach to problem-solving, and ambitious about our vision for the future.
This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to the Manager of Product Management.
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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.