Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, New Product Programs

Highlights

• Lead the end-to-end technical program for Waymo's New Product Programs initiatives.
• Take new products with no playbook from early concept to real-world launch.
• Partner across Product, Engineering, Hardware, Safety, Legal and Operations.

What they offer

• Discretionary annual bonus program
• Equity incentive plan
• Generous Company benefits program

Ideal candidate

A strategic, ambiguity-loving program leader who thrives taking 0-to-1 hardware-software products to launch and enjoys aligning senior leaders across engineering, product, safety and operations.

Requirements

• 10+ years leading transformational multi-org technical programs from 0-to-1 to launch and scale
• Technical judgment to evaluate complex system architectures and guide velocity vs quality tradeoffs
• Track record structuring ambiguous initiatives into milestones and accountability frameworks
• Experience with resource management, capacity forecasting and unit-economics modeling for 100+ engineers
• Experience with safety-critical, regulated hardware-software products with V&V and field operations
• Executive presence influencing VP/C-level leaders and aligning Engineering, Product, Safety, Legal, Operations