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Technical Program Management, Commercialization

Waymo· Product
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Mountain View, California, San Francisco, California$230k - $284kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Waymo is hiring a Technical Program Manager to drive roadmap execution and cross-functional coordination for commercialization efforts, focusing on improving rider journeys and customer experiences across markets.

Responsibilities

  • Lead critical programs focused on improving the rider journey and customer experiences across Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Operations.
  • Establish and define key quality metrics and frameworks to track and continuously improve the rider experience across all operating markets.
  • Drive strategic initiatives to proactively identify, prioritize, and manage dependencies and risks.
  • Align stakeholders across the organization and represent the programs to executive leadership to remove blockers and drive accountability.
  • Apply strong technical judgment to evaluate system trade-offs, improve scalability, and ensure delivery quality.
  • Manage program roadmaps, portfolio prioritization, and resource allocation to ensure timely delivery and success of core business outcomes.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience managing highly complex cross-functional programs with a holistic understanding of business-wide functions (e.g. Product, Eng, Operations, etc).
  • Demonstrated experience delivering commercial, consumer-facing software products.
  • Proven track record of driving large-scale, ambiguous technical programs end-to-end, managing cross-functional dependencies, timelines, and risks across multiple stakeholders.
  • Strong technical background with the ability to engage credibly in technical design discussion with engineering and evaluate technical trade-offs.
  • Aptitude for analyzing disparate data points and metrics into structured priorities and actionable burndown paths to drive incremental, measurable quality gains.
  • Exceptional communication and leadership skills with demonstrated ability to align diverse cross-functional teams and influence executive leadership.

Skills

Required:Program managementTechnical judgment in system designData-driven decision makingStakeholder alignment and leadership

Benefits

  • 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.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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