Senior Product Manager, Fleet Resilience

Title: Senior Product Manager, Fleet Resilience Location: Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US

Waymo’s Product Management Team is a mission-driven team responsible for writing and enacting first-of-their-kind playbooks to bring fully autonomous driving technology to market. Our team develops simple solutions for complex problems by orchestrating cross-functional efforts to safely drive Waymo’s technology and the products it enables forward. We do this by understanding the customer, the business, and the technology. We are humble about the scope of our work, collaborative in our approach to problem-solving, and ambitious about our vision for the future.

You will:

• 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, and decide when mitigations can be relaxed as performance improves
• Scale fleet resilience to new markets, platforms and international cities as Waymo expands

You have:

• 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

We prefer:

• 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 management
• 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