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Business System Lead - People Team and Real Estate

Waymo· Finance, Business Systems, and Global Places & Services
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Mountain View, CA$200k - $247kFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Strategic technology partner responsible for building, scaling, and modernizing enterprise applications powering Waymo’s workforce and workplace solutions, bridging People Operations, Real Estate & Workplace Services (REWS), and Engineering to establish an automated, AI-enabled systems ecosystem.

Responsibilities

  • Portfolio Strategy & Architecture: Define and execute the multi-year technology roadmap across People, Culture, and REWS systems, ensuring alignment between Waymo’s business objectives, IT strategy, and Alphabet corporate infrastructure.
  • Team Leadership & Delivery: Lead, mentor, and guide a high-performing team of systems analysts, engineers, and program managers, driving sprint backlogs, UAT execution, vendor governance, and bi-annual release cycles.
  • Lifecycle Automation: Architect resilient cross-platform integrations translating employee lifecycle events (onboarding, role transfers, departures) into automated downstream actions across identity provisioning, badge access control, and desk allocation.
  • AI-First Solution Design: Modernize core workplace and HR processes by evaluating and embedding AI-native tools, LLM-driven workflow automations, and intelligent business process automation (RPA).
  • Enterprise Systems Integration: Lead large-scale SaaS implementations and platform enhancements anchored around core tools such as Workday HCM, CoStar, Sitetracker, Tririga, and corporate SAP integrations.
  • Operational Excellence & Governance: Direct system change management, 3rd-level incident triage, and root-cause analyses while enforcing enterprise-grade data privacy, audit compliance, and SOC/SOX security controls.

Qualifications

  • A Bachelor's degree in a technical or business discipline (such as Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or MIS), or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 to 10 years of experience working as a Business Systems Analyst, specifically supporting corporate HR, facilities/real estate functional areas.
  • Strong understanding of HR & Real Estate tech domain and its core business processes like Hire to Retire.
  • Solid project management fundamentals, including experience working within Agile/Scrum frameworks, managing backlogs, and prioritizing competing requests.
  • Excellent communication skills, with a track record of translating complex technical architecture into plain language for non-technical business partners.

Skills

Required:Enterprise systems architecture and roadmappingTeam leadership and people managementAgile/Scrum project managementSystem integration (SaaS, APIs)
Nice to have:HRIS (Workday) expertise
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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