Senior Product Manager, Fleet Resilience

Waymo • Mountain View, CA

1d • $241,000 - $297,000

About The Position

Waymo’s Product Management Team develops and brings fully autonomous driving technology and its products to market by coordinating cross-functional work and understanding customer, business, and technology needs. The Senior Product Manager, Fleet Resilience will own the product strategy and roadmap for keeping Waymo’s autonomous fleet safe and operational through large-scale, fleet-wide disruptions. The role defines onboard and fleet-level product requirements to detect, contain, and recover from events; turns real-world event data into prioritized decisions; and leads a large, cross-organizational effort, including alignment with senior leadership. It also establishes success metrics and evaluation strategies for fleet performance during rare events, determines when mitigations can be relaxed as performance improves, and scales resilience capabilities to new markets, platforms, and international cities.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 7 years of product management experience, or at least 5 years of product management experience plus significant prior engineering experience, including ownership of highly technical products end to end.
• Track record of leading large, ambiguous, cross-functional programs spanning several engineering organizations and operations teams, and aligning senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to break down large, messy datasets and incident data into risk-based priorities and clear product decisions.
• Ability to work deeply with engineers on complex distributed or safety-critical systems and challenge decisions with data.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive writing and leadership in high-stakes, crisis-style situations.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for keeping Waymo’s autonomous fleet safe and operational through large-scale, fleet-wide disruptions.
• Define product requirements for onboard behaviors and fleet-level automation that detect, contain, and recover from disruptive events.
• Turn real-world event data into a clear, prioritized view and make principled trade-offs.
• Lead a large, cross-functional, cross-organizational effort and drive alignment up to senior leadership.
• Define success metrics and evaluation strategies for end-to-end, fleet-level performance during rare events.
• Determine when mitigations can be relaxed as performance improves.
• Scale fleet resilience to new markets, platforms, and international cities.

Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus program, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Equity incentive plan, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Company benefits program, described as generous and subject to eligibility requirements.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior