Business Operations Lead

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.

The Strategy & BizOps team drives and executes against the company’s go-to-market strategy. We leverage quantitative and qualitative analysis to create long-term business strategies and help execute on Waymo’s commercial deployment. The team is analytically driven, with a proactive mentality, focused on finding and delivering on high impact projects.

This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to the Senior Director of Strategy & BizOps and Product Data Science.

You Will:

• Commercial performance measurement and analysis to ensure Waymo is on track to achieve its commercial goals
• Coordinating and executing on Waymo’s go-to-market strategy - experienced in leading various GTM strategy projects with broad scope and executional and/or operational experience
• Conducting rigorous qualitative or quantitative analysis and effectively distilling insights (“so what”) from them 
• Cross-functional coordination - aligning various perspectives and inputs from technical and commercial functions
• Advanced business modeling and analysis such as value driver and scenario analysis responsibilities 
• Distilling insights and recommendations for leadership

You Have:

• Operational experience is critical and at least 8+ years experience doing this
• Structured problem solving - knows how to solve ambiguous problems, can up-level, doesn’t get lost in details 
• Analytical skillset - comfortable with various modes of quantitative analysis (e.g. financial modeling, data analytics, SQL), and capable of presenting up-leveled insights for executive audiences
• Strong relationship building and communication skills 
• Background: familiar with project based work, frequent shift of focus and topics, learning new content quickly (typical for consulting or bizOps functions in tech companies) 
• Commercial marketplace experience  

We Prefer:

• Experience running commercial performance measurement 
• Consulting, banking or operational background + experience in a tech company, especially with products that have offline component 
• Experience in relevant industries (e.g., Ride Hailing, Trucking, Delivery)
• Experience with commercialization /  go-to-market strategy or execution (e.g., pricing) 

The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. 

Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. 

Salary Range$243,000—$308,000 USD