Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. 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. As part of Waymo's Legal team, you will work on the exciting legal issues surrounding our transformational autonomous driving technology and help drive our business lines forward from technology ideation through scaled commercial deployment.
Requirements
- Deep understanding of the product life-cycle, vehicle/fleet operations, and litigation/judicial process.
- Experience working with automotive or emerging technology companies, or with complex hardware, software, and interrelated technologies.
- Product counseling experience, including for products or operations spanning multiple domestic or international jurisdictions and product liability regimes.
- Cybersecurity, data security, and/or security counseling experience.
- Operations and fleet experience.
- Experience counseling across a range of subject matters relevant to regulated industries, emerging technologies, or AI.
- Experience providing legal advice on crisis management or internal investigations.
Responsibilities
- Provide proactive product counseling to safety, product, engineering, operations, and security teams.
- Deeply understand Waymo’s product, operations, and roadmaps, and provide business-focused advice to enable Waymo’s domestic and international growth.
- Advise on product and operational legal risk, including safety and security matters, across multiple jurisdictions and liability regimes (domestic and international).
- Advise on interactions with partners, vendors, and suppliers on matters posing legal risk, including investigations.
- Advise on approaches to inbound inquiries, internal and external communications, and proposed safety-related research publications.
- Participate as a member of the legal incident response team.
Other
- Law degree (LLB, LLM, or JD), plus at least 5 years of prior litigation and/or product counseling experience with a law firm or in-house legal department.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to explain complex legal concepts succinctly and pragmatically.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to partner effectively at all levels of the company and cross-functionally, including with executives and technical staff.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail; ability to manage a significant workload with competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Proficiency and comfort navigating ambiguity and developing effective, business-oriented solutions to managing legal risk; enthusiasm for winning together as a team and working collaboratively with legal and non-legal stakeholders.
- Travel to San Francisco Bay Area (Mountain View) several times throughout the year for major team meetings and company events.
