Senior Product Manager, Fleet Resilience

The role

You will own the product strategy and roadmap for how the autonomous fleet stays safe and running during large-scale disruptions. You will define product requirements for onboard behaviors and fleet-level automation to detect, contain, and recover from events.

What you will do

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for how Waymo's autonomous fleet stays safe and keeps running through large-scale, fleet-wide disruptions
• Define product requirements for onboard behaviors and for the fleet-level automation that detect, contain, and recover from these events
• Turn real-world event data into a clear, prioritized view and make principled trade-offs
• Lead a large, cross-functional, cross-org effort and drive alignment up to senior leadership
• Define success metrics and evaluation strategies for end-to-end, fleet-level performance during rare events
• Scale fleet resilience to new markets, platforms and international cities as Waymo expands

Required qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years of product management experience (or 5+ years PM plus significant prior engineering experience), including owning highly technical products end to end
• Track record of leading large, ambiguous, cross-functional programs that span several engineering orgs and operations teams, and getting senior stakeholders aligned
• Strong analytical skills: able to break down large, messy datasets and incident data into risk-based priorities and crisp product decisions
• Proven ability to go deep technically with engineers on complex distributed or safety-critical systems, and to push back with data
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including writing for executives and leading through crisis-style, high-stakes situations

Nice to have

• MS/PhD in a technical field, or an MBA with a strong technical background
• Product experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or other safety-critical systems (aviation, rail, medical devices, industrial automation)
• Experience with reliability, resilience, or incident-management products, e.g. SRE/production reliability, disaster recovery, network/telecom resilience, fleet or logistics operations, or crisis manag
• Experience building products that combine onboard/edge intelligence with cloud/offboard systems and human-in-the-loop operations
• Hands-on data skills (SQL/Python) and comfort with probabilistic risk thinking

Benefits

• 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.