Technical Program Manager, Systems Integration

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the 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 One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over one million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving tens of millions of miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 13+ U.S. states.

Waymo's Technical Program Managers are accountable for Waymo's roadmap execution by providing thoughtful cross-functional planning, clarity, and proactive risk management. In the face of complex technical and operational challenges with no established playbooks to follow, we act with thoughtful urgency, driving conversations, discussions, and outcomes. Our team partners closely with every function of Waymo to structure, own and drive work towards real-world deployments of the Waymo Driver across platforms and geographies.

This is a remote role reporting to a Lead Technical Program Manager, Systems Integration.

In this role you'll:

• Collaborate across Hardware, Software, and Operations teams to build schedules that align execution to meet product goals
• Partner with technical leads, product managers and program managers to drive execution on broad cross functional efforts
• Lead proactive risk management efforts and contingency plans across the program landscape to deliver on the program
• Communicate across all levels of the organization to ensure all partners are aware of program decisions, status, and changes
• Dig into details to identify gaps, risks and misalignment

At a minimum, we'd like you to have:

• Strong Technical Judgment:  The ability to engage with engineering leads and contribute to technical discussions by understanding the tradeoffs and impacts of various technical decisions to the program scope, risks and timeline
• Program Management Fundamentals: Working with all disciplines and levels of the organization to organize a plan to meet an objective, proactively managing risks and driving clarity on ambiguity and decisions to ensure the organization remains aligned on meeting our objective
• Curiosity: A consistent desire to understand the fundamentals of new technology, the inner workings of teams, and how the projects one is responsible for align …