Construction Project Executive
About The Position
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company focused on building the Waymo Driver to improve mobility and save lives. As Waymo's Construction Project Executive, you will be responsible for site due diligence, design oversight, permitting, and build-out of various locations including industrial, automotive service, and EV charging typologies. This role operates in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment, requiring process excellence, collaboration, and detailed cross-organizational communication. The position follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to the Head of Project Delivery.
Requirements
- 10+ years of real estate project management of industrial operations, automobile service and charging, R&D lab and commercial office of at least 300,000 square feet
- An understanding of various real estate typologies (workplace, lab, industrial, manufacturing, automotive service, EV charging)
- Experience leading large scale real estate construction projects, orchestrating teams of project managers, architects, contractors, consultants and attorneys through deal flows at values of $20M each and greater
- Exceptional project delivery skills, including the ability to gather relevant jurisdictional limitations and roadblocks, as well as communicate recommendations effectively to various stakeholders
- Advanced financial reporting and analysis acumen as well as budget management
- Experience developing and implementing process improvements to streamline the full project delivery cycle inclusive of a strong understanding of and experience using AI tools to enhance construction management workflows
Nice To Haves
- A track record of proven objective analysis, having delivering projects in an atmosphere where speed, flexibility and frugality are the norm
- Business relationship management expertise
- Degree in construction management, architecture, engineering, real estate, business administration or finance
- Automotive and/or rideshare sector interest, if not experience
- Drive to work in a startup environment, ideally in tech industry
- R&D lab delivery experience for hard labs as well as other technical expertise with building and site infrastructure
Responsibilities
- Be responsible for site due diligence, negotiations of transaction work letter documents, permitting, design oversight and build out of a variety of locations across workplace, lab, industrial and manufacturing typologies
- Synthesize and present executive-level business cases for capital investment strategies across a diverse portfolio of projects
- Build trusted relationships across the business and act as liaison to ensure alignment between investments and the portfolio strategies. Effectively communicate expectations, requirements and status of deals to key business stakeholders, building a culture of speed, flexibility and frugality for solutioning
- Partner cross-functionally with GPS peers, Legal, Finance, Procurement, Security, and Network teams to drive the seamless execution and delivery of high-impact construction projects
- Innovate and execute processes and tools to ensure the complete cycle from site search due diligence through deal execution to the first day of business is completed consistently and predictably, managing ever-changing variety of internal initiatives and projects
- Create, innovate and implement relevant systems of metrics to plan, manage and measure performance pertaining to the project delivery process
Benefits
- discretionary annual bonus program
- equity incentive plan
- generous Company benefits program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
