Regional Autonomous Fleet Readiness Manager - Central
Required skills
- Fleet Readiness Manager
- Central Region
- Waymo Driver
- autonomous fleet
- operations platform
- Market Operations Team
- supply metrics
- fleet health
- service availability
- EV platforms
Nice to have
- AV Industry Fluency
- autonomous vehicle ecosystems
- compute/sensing suites
- Process Engineering
- Waymo Operating System
- Lean Manufacturing
Role summary
Waymo Operations is seeking a Regional Fleet Readiness Manager for its Central Region to ensure the successful deployment and operational uptime of its autonomous EV fleet. This role is pivotal in managing supply metrics, fleet health, and demand-supply equilibrium. The manager will lead the strategic scaling of new EV platforms, provide technical oversight to diagnostic teams, and act as a liaison between engineering and field operations. Key responsibilities include vendor management, ensuring adherence to SLAs and safety standards, championing automation, and overseeing critical component lifecycles for zero-downtime operations. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree, 7+ years of industry experience with at least 3 years in EV platforms, and 5+ years in multi-site fleet and maintenance oversight. Experience in NPI, performance tracking, vendor management, root cause analysis, and project leadership is essential. Preferred qualifications include AV industry fluency and process engineering experience.
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 Operations exists to deliver the Waymo Driver to the world. We are a global team building and scaling the world's first and leading autonomous fleet and operations platform. From component sourcing to end customer management, we enable and create value for Waymo through scaled and orchestrated deployment of the Waymo Driver. At Waymo, we are dedicated to building a culture that promotes collaboration and celebration. We value our team members' unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences and support and encourage all team members to share their ideas to help Waymo better serve the communities in which we operate.
Join the Market Operations Team in a role pivotal to our end-to-end performance. As the architect of our 'top-of-funnel' supply metrics, you will own the critical path from platform readiness to supply-demand equilibrium, ensuring fleet health directly powers service availability. We are seeking a dual-focus expert who can translate technical nuances into operational uptime, while mentoring internal teams and holding external partners to elite standards across a multi-market portfolio.
In this role, you will report to the Head of Market Operations - Central Region.
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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.
Salary Range$130,000—$160,000 USD