Role at a glance
- Salary
- Not Disclosed
- Location
- United Kingdom - London United Kingdom - England - London
- Work arrangement
- Hybrid
- Employment
- Full-time
- Experience
- 5+ years experience managing complex programs where precision and attention to detail are critical to success
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Role Summary
This role leads permitting programs across Regulatory, Legal, and Policy functions for Waymo’s new markets in the United Kingdom. The position works with cross-functional teams and senior leadership to address regulatory and compliance challenges that affect the company’s ability to operate.
What You'll Do
- Lead and drive permitting programs across Regulatory, Legal, and Policy functions.
- Prioritize and manage timelines, risks, and dependencies.
- Resolve misalignments with overall scope and schedule.
- Identify and reduce business-critical compliance and regulatory blockers.
- Keep stakeholders informed and aligned.
- Represent programs to senior leadership and partner with them to remove blockers.
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View full postingQualifications
5+ years of experience managing complex programs; experience leading large Regulatory/Legal programs across Product, Safety, Engineering, and Ops; ability to navigate ambiguity and drive clear decision-making; strong leadership and verbal and written communication skills; expertise in scaling processes within complex, growing areas.
Required
- 5+ years experience managing complex programs where precision and attention to detail are critical to success
- Experience leading large Regulatory/Legal programs across Product, Safety, Engineering, Ops, etc.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive clear decision-making
- Strong leadership skills, and clear verbal and written communication
- Significant expertise in scaling processes within complex, growing areas
Preferred
- Expertise within autonomous vehicles or automotive space
- Experience with international and/or multinational regulatory frameworks
- Experience within regulatory or political spaces, including highly-regulated industries
- Experience with road safety, design, or transportation planning
Original job description
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Original job description
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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.
This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to Strategic PMO, Lead.
You will:
- Lead and drive permitting programs across Regulatory, Legal, Policy space, working cross-functionally with teams such as Product, Safety, Engineering, Ops, etc in new markets in the United Kingdom
- Prioritize / manage / drive timelines, risks, and dependencies; resolve misalignments with overall scope and schedule
- Proactively identify and reduce business-critical blockers, including compliance and regulatory challenges that may impact ability to operate
- Keep stakeholders across Waymo informed and aligned; represent programs to senior leadership and partner with them to remove blockers
You have:
- 5+ years experience managing complex programs where precision and attention to detail are critical to success
- Experience leading large Regulatory/Legal programs across Product, Safety, Engineering, Ops, etc.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive clear decision-making
- Strong leadership skills, and clear verbal and written communication
- Significant expertise in scaling processes within complex, growing areas
We prefer:
- Expertise within autonomous vehicles or automotive space
- Experience with international and/or multinational regulatory frameworks
- Experience within regulatory or political spaces, including highly-regulated industries
- Experience with road safety, design, or transportation planning
The expected base salary range for this full-time position 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. 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.
About the company
Waymo
Large Enterprise
Waymo is a leading autonomous driving technology company, originally a part of Google's parent company Alphabet Inc. Established in 2009, Waymo focuses on developing self-driving cars and innovative transportation solutions designed to enhance mobility and safety on the roads. By employing advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, the company aims to revolutionize personal and shared transportation, making it more accessible and efficient. Waymo's efforts contribute significantly to the future of autonomous vehicles and the ongoing shift towards smart transportation systems.
Waymo is a leading autonomous driving technology company, originally a part of Google's parent company Alphabet Inc. Established in 2009, Waymo focuses on developing self-driving cars and innovative transportation solutions designed to enhance mobility and safety on the roads. By employing advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, the company aims to revolutionize personal and shared transportation, making it more accessible and efficient. Waymo's efforts contribute significantly to the future of autonomous vehicles and the ongoing shift towards smart transportation systems.