People Strategy Manager

Waymo’s People team recruits and supports the world’s best talent (including, we hope, you). Our business partners, program leaders, staffers, and compensation specialists help our employees attain their full potential in a healthy, considerate and supportive environment. We take our role as stewards of Waymo's culture seriously.

People Strategy keeps Waymo's People Team one step ahead of the business by being the central go-to-market partner. We run People priorities as one portfolio, sequencing launches and building scalable infrastructure to support Waymo's scaled expansion. We're operators who own outcomes end-to-end: no task too small, no idea too big.

In this hybrid role you will be based out of Mountain View, CA or San Francisco, CA and report to our Head of People Strategy.

You will:

• Drive the People team's most important work across priorities, products, growth and emerging needs. You'll start with a focus area, then flex to wherever the business needs you most, from building new programs to strengthening ones already running. Your first focus is Waymo’ growth and expansion.
• Lead the People team's international expansion program: set cross-functional governance and drive market-entry compliance, entity setup and staffing models across a multi-year roadmap
• Own and scale Waymo's global workforce planning and location strategy, partnering with Finance and business leaders on headcount models that guide where and how we grow
• Distill complex, ambiguous growth challenges into clear problem statements, options and recommendations for senior leaders
• Navigate sensitive cross-functional issues with sound judgment and discretion, building the alignment needed to move work forward

You have:

• Experience influencing senior executives and cross-functional teams across geographies and time zones through clear, compelling narratives
• 12+ years of experience in People strategy or programs, corporate strategy, business operations, or program and portfolio management
• Experience leading international expansion into highly regulated markets (e.g. entity setup, employment compliance, in-country hiring)
• Experience building workforce plans, headcount models or location strategies with Finance and business leaders
• Experience turning analysis into clear recommendations and narratives that move senior executives and cross-functional teams across geographies and time zones
• Track record of operating independently once the goal is clear: taking initiative, making decisions, and knowing when to escalate

We prefer:

• Experience working within a People function at a growing company
• Experience moving work forward across many teams at any stage (shaping it, running it, or landing it), knowing when to own it and when to hand it off, and building trust along the way
• Ability to adapt as priorities shift while leading several high-impact programs at once

Travel Requirements:

• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to ~25% of the time.