Business System Lead - People Team and Real Estate

The role

You will serve as a strategic technology partner building and scaling enterprise applications for workforce and workplace solutions. You will bridge People Operations, Real Estate & Workplace Services, and Engineering to establish an automated, AI-enabled systems ecosystem.

What you will do

• Define and execute the multi-year technology roadmap across People, Culture, and REWS systems.
• Lead, mentor, and guide a team of systems analysts, engineers, and program managers.
• Drive sprint backlogs, UAT execution, vendor governance, and bi-annual release cycles.
• Architect cross-platform integrations for employee lifecycle events.
• Modernize workplace and HR processes by evaluating and embedding AI-native tools and RPA.
• Lead large-scale SaaS implementations and platform enhancements.
• Direct system change management, 3rd-level incident triage, and root-cause analyses.
• Enforce enterprise-grade data privacy, audit compliance, and SOC/SOX security controls.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical or business discipline (such as Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or MIS), or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 to 10 years of experience working as a Business Systems Analyst, specifically supporting corporate HR, facilities/real estate functional areas.
• Strong understanding of HR & Real Estate tech domain and its core business processes like Hire to Retire.
• Solid project management fundamentals, including experience working within Agile/Scrum frameworks, managing backlogs, and prioritizing competing requests.
• Excellent communication skills, with a track record of translating complex technical architecture into plain language for non-technical business partners.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or an MBA.
• Deep functional and technical knowledge of Workday (Core HCM, Business Process Framework, Studio, EIB) and enterprise financial/subledger integration points (e.g., SAP).
• Proven success driving business systems transformation in high-growth technology, autonomous vehicle, or complex hardware/fleet environments.
• Experience with IoT/sensor-based space utilization systems, lease accounting workflows, and physical security access control integrations (e.g., Lenel, CCure).
• Practical experience evaluating and deploying generative AI tools, automated chatbots, or agentic workflows to optimize corporate workforce operations.
• Familiarity with Alphabet internal shared infrastructure, security review standards, and enterprise data privacy policies.

Benefits

• Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program
• Equity incentive plan
• Generous Company benefits program

About the company

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. 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.