Own operational readiness and support strategy for assigned products, equipping customer-facing teams with tools and training while turning customer feedback and data into product improvements.
Product Operations Manager, Ops Compliance & Regulatory Infrastructure
📜 Description
- Coordinate product and system launches with engineering, operations, and external stakeholders, ensuring readiness and adoption.
- Lead post-launch support, analyze feedback, and recommend data-driven improvements.
- Communicate launch plans, known issues, and key decisions to internal teams; serve as a subject matter expert.
- Build connections across regulatory, manufacturing, and operations systems to support fleet scaling.
- Partner with engineering to define requirements and automate training compliance and access control governance.
🛠️ Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in a technology-focused role such as Product Management, Product Operations, Technical Program Management, or Technical Operations
- BA/BS degree in related technical subject, or equivalent practical experience in a technical field / role
- Experience in managing large product rollouts, including aligning operational priorities, coordinating across multiple teams, and driving successful adoption at scale
- Proven track record working with large datasets, SQL, and database integrations to automate processes and create high quality data sets
- Experience identifying business needs, and then defining, and building technical solutions to address those requirements in a fast-paced environment (e.g. creating BRD, PRD, Design docs)
- Strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work with cross-functional teams and external partners
- Background in a regulated or safety-critical tech environment such as Autonomous Vehicles, Aviation/Aerospace, HealthTech, Defense, or Financial Risk Operations
- Familiarity with Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) frameworks, enterprise identity management, and 3P system integrations
- Experience building systems which scale internationally and comply with global regulatory frameworks
- Proficiency in leveraging AI tools to perform data analysis, accelerate coding, and build lightweight prototypes
Full job description
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.
Waymo Operations exists to deliver the Waymo Driver to the world. We are a global team building and scaling the world's first and leading autonomous fleet and operations platform. From component sourcing to end customer management, we enable and create value for Waymo through scaled and orchestrated deployment of the Waymo Driver. At Waymo, we are dedicated to building a culture that promotes collaboration and celebration. We value our team members' unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences and support and encourage all team members to share their ideas to help Waymo better serve the communities in which we operate.
In this hybrid role you will be based out of Mountain View, CA or San Francisco, CA and report to our Head of Product Operations, Tools & Systems.
You will:
- Facilitate the launch and adoption of new products and systems that empower our business to scale. Ensure readiness and orchestrate deployments with engineering, ops, and external stakeholders
- Lead post-launch support, analyze feedback, and ensure continuous improvement through data-driven recommendations
- Communicate clearly with internal teams regarding upcoming launches, known issues, and key decisions, fostering collaboration and trust; act as a subject matter expert
- Help build systems to connect various regulatory, manufacturing, and operations systems to enable our fleet to scale effectively
- Partner with engineering to define requirements and build automated systems that support training compliance and access control governance
You have:
- 5+ years of experience in a technology-focused role such as Product Management, Product Operations, Technical Program Management, or Technical Operations
- BA/BS degree in related technical subject, or equivalent practical experience in a technical field / role
- Experience in managing large product rollouts, including aligning operational priorities, coordinating across multiple teams, and driving successful adoption at scale
- Proven track record working with large datasets, SQL, and database integrations to automate processes and create high quality data sets
- Experience identifying business needs, and then defining, and building technical solutions to address those requirements in a fast-paced environment (e.g. creating BRD, PRD, Design docs)
- Strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work with cross-functional teams and external partners
We prefer:
- Background in a regulated or safety-critical tech environment such as Autonomous Vehicles, Aviation/Aerospace, HealthTech, Defense, or Financial Risk Operations
- Familiarity with Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) frameworks, enterprise identity management, and 3P system integrations
- Experience building systems which scale internationally and comply with global regulatory frameworks
- Proficiency in leveraging AI tools to perform data analysis, accelerate coding, and build lightweight prototypes
Travel requirements:
- Up to 5% for stakeholder meetings
The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.
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.
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