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
Develop Reliable Safety Performance Indicators: Design and refine SMS implementation, maturity, and effectiveness metrics grounded in industry best practices and international safety standards, assessing and maintaining metric quality and advising teams and leaders on proper metric interpretation and use.
Map & Synthesize Multi-Domain Safety Management Metrics: Collect, quality-assure, and synthesize quantitative and qualitative metrics across multiple business functions and trace them to the company’s top-line safety objectives.
Run SMS Performance Reporting Governance: Lead the processes and analytics workflows used to support executive leadership review of SMS performance data and aggregated trend analyses.
Translate Signals into Executive Decision Material: Partner with data science, operational, and safety teams across Waymo to distill complex multi-source data into clear, decision-oriented briefings, dashboards, and continual-improvement recommendations for senior leaders.
Drive Closed-Loop Action & Effectiveness Tracking: Monitor safety performance indicators against targets and thresholds; where indicators show adverse trends or fall short of targets, confirm an accountable owner is assigned and track action items through to verified closure and confirmed effectiveness.
Scale Analytics Tooling & Audit Readiness: Define requirements for data collection, visualization, and reporting tools that improve the reliability and scalability of SMS performance measurement, and support preparation for domestic and international regulatory audits and evaluations.
What they're looking for
- A Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering,: Economics, Statistics, or a related scientific or analytic field.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in data analytics, safety or operational: performance measurement, or business/technical intelligence within complex engineering, financial, transportation, or safety-critical organizations.
- Demonstrated expertise working with both quantitative and qualitative data: and metrics, including developing metrics based on industry best practices or standards, evaluating and maintaining metric quality, and advising stakeholders on metric interpretation and limitations.
- Proficiency with modern data analytics, visualization, and reporting tools: (e.g., SQL, Python/R, BI dashboards, and data pipelines) to collect, validate, and communicate performance data to executive leadership and governance committees.
