Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's 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’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.
Waymo’s Product Data Science team works cross-functionally with Engineering, Product and Operations to help the company make the most informed decisions using data. Our team collaborates on high-impact projects across the company — from driving quality and operational efficiency to market analysis and rider satisfaction scores — we help to safely and efficiently scale the Waymo Driver. We are data-driven, curious, open-minded, and adapt quickly to new information.
This role follows a hybrid work schedule and you will report to a Director, Product Data Science.
You will:
- Set the vision for a team of Product Data Scientists
- Provide leadership to the team to execute on the vision as the company scales its commercial operations, and own the output across optimizations, statistical modelling, data analysis and ML algorithms
- Analyze complex operational and commercial data to enhance performance as Waymo scales our AV business
- Function as a thought partner with senior management and stakeholders, and align stakeholders around the vision to gain cross-functional support
- Manage prioritization of team resources to partner with cross functional teams such as Marketing, Engineering, Product, Strategy, Finance
You have:
- 15+ years of experience in a related technical field or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of team management experience
- 5+ years of experience with optimization and building OR models in production
- Statistical knowledge/data intuition
- Ability to structure and solve ambiguous problems
- Coding skills and experience: Python,SQL and Data science related coding experience
We prefer:
- Prior experience building and managing OR/Optimization scientists
- Marketplace business experience
- Experience interacting with Product Management teams
