The opportunity
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…
What you'll do
Contribute to the development of and manage a multi-year global CapEx budget.: Forecast costs across regions, and drive value engineering to optimize the total cost to build
Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing global team of regional: construction executives and project managers while collaborating with subject matter experts. Align regional teams under a unified global strategy
Build trusted relationships across the business and act as liaison to ensure: alignment between investments and the portfolio strategies. Effectively communicate expectations, requirements and status of deals to key business stakeholders, building a culture of speed, flexibility and frugality for solutioning
Enforce global design and construction playbooks and standards, risk: management protocols, and quality standards. Ensure that projects are delivered consistently across all markets
Collaborate directly with stakeholders and cross functional partners: (Finance, Legal, Procurement, Network and Security) to ensure the construction pipeline aligns with the company's broader business and growth objectives
Innovate and execute processes and tools that contribute to ensuring the: complete cycle from site search due diligence through deal execution to the first day of business is completed consistently and predictably, managing an ever-changing variety of internal initiatives and projects
What they're looking for
- + years of progressive experience in commercial real estate development or: construction, including at least 5+ years in a senior leadership role overseeing a global, multi-regional, or highly complex portfolio
- A proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale capital: projects, orchestrating teams of project managers, architects, contractors, consultants and attorneys through concurrent deal flows at values of $20M each and greater
- Deep, hands-on expertise navigating every phase of the construction: lifecycle, including site selection challenges, zoning/entitlements, permitting bottlenecks, and active construction site management
- Extensive experience structuring, reviewing, and negotiating high-stakes: commercial construction contracts (e.g., Guaranteed Maximum Price, Design-Build, or lump sum) in partnership with legal counsel