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
Strategic Leadership (Partner Support/Management): Strategic and decisive leadership to manage and optimize daily partner operations, fostering a high-performance culture emphasizing collaboration and accountability, escalating product issues while supporting partner multi-facility operations (partner results) to ensure strict adherence to all safety, compliance, and regulatory protocols.
Commercialization: Primary liaison to support internal stakeholders in expanding the market by providing guidance and expertise, communicating with all stakeholders to ensure alignment, monitoring progress, identifying potential issues, and developing contingency plans to ensure the success and sustainability of the market scale.
Supply & Demand Planning: Manage Supply & Demand Planning by ensuring that staffing levels align with operational needs and in-service supply.
Continuous Improvement: Must be continuously monitoring and improving processes, systems, and performance metrics to drive efficiency and productivity, and reduce costs.
Co-Lead Market Expansion: Strategically expand the market by executing innovative initiatives with partners, leveraging data insights, and applying critical thinking to identify opportunities and resolve challenges effectively.
Build Collaborative Partnerships: Build and maintain strong partnerships across the company and with partners, ensuring alignment with organizational standards, goals, and a shared commitment to success.
What they're looking for
- Drive Sustainable Outcomes: Serve as a trusted leader with a continuous improvement mindset, consistently monitoring and enhancing processes, systems, and performance metrics to drive operational excellence, strengthen stakeholder alignment, and deliver measurable, sustainable results, all while boosting efficiency, productivity, and reducing costs.
- Maximize Market Profitability: Manage departmental budgets, identifying and implementing cost-saving initiatives, and monitoring key performance indicators to effectively allocate resources and ensure all operational initiatives align with financial parameters and organizational goals.
- + years of experience in operations management, preferably managing daily: operations in a fast-paced environment in fleet management, transportation, or logistics, with a deep understanding of safety.
- Bachelor's degree, or in lieu of a degree, an additional 6+ years of work: experience in a combination of program management, business operations, strategy consulting, planning, or equivalent fields.
