Senior Program Manager, AV Compliance - External Reporting

Waymo is seeking a Senior Program Manager for AV Compliance to lead external data reporting in the EMEA region, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and managing cross-functional initiatives. 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 mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. As part of Waymo's Legal team, you will work on the exciting legal issues surrounding our transformational autonomous driving technology and help drive our business lines forward from technology ideation through scaled commercial deployment. We partner with our public policy, safety, security and privacy experts to define transportation policy for the autonomous driving world to come, advising on regulatory changes that support and protect our users around the world. We collaborate with our engineering, product, strategy and operations teams to develop and protect our intellectual property portfolio and drive our corporate and commercial transactions. We enable compliance with an increasingly complex and dynamic range of global regulations. And we anticipate, mitigate, and litigate high-profile and precedent-setting legal matters.

• •Lead the development, implementation, and execution of Waymo’s external data reporting program for the EMEA region.
• •Intake regulatory requirements focused on reporting, and partner with Legal, Product, Operations, and Engineering teams to establish company-wide policies, standards, and procedure documentation that govern Waymo’s reporting activities in EMEA.
• •Act as a strategic leader within the company to support cross-functional teams’ compliance controls and readiness for regulatory scrutiny.
• •Own the end-to-end regulatory reporting program, including the compilation, quality controls, submission, and tooling development for required data reporting across Waymo’s EMEA markets.
• •Identify and analyze potential risks that impact the company’s intended growth, and lead cross functional efforts to mitigate risks to support commercial scale.

• •The expected base salary range for this full-time position is £103,000 — £108,000 GBP.
• •Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level.
• •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.
• •This role follows a hybrid work schedule.

• •At least 5 years of experience working on a compliance program in a highly regulated industry, preferably with experience managing regulatory reporting.
• •High-level organizational and program management skills, with a proven track record of leading cross functional initiatives from concept to completion.
• •Demonstrated resilience and leadership in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, with a focus on problem-solving.
• •Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to distill complex or ambiguous regulatory requirements into actionable guidance for diverse audiences.
• •Advanced "gap-finding" and risk-assessment abilities, with proven experience proactively mitigating issues before they impact operations.
• •Analytical background with the ability to independently source and analyze data, identify deficiencies or trends, and present facts and findings to senior leadership.