People Strategy and Go-To-Market Manager
Waymo
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’s People team recruits and supports the world’s best talent (including, we hope, you). Our HR business partners, program administrators, staffers, and compensation specialists help our employees attain their full potential in a healthy, considerate and supportive environment. We take our role as champions of Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity (EID) and stewards of the unique Waymo culture seriously.
In this hybrid role, you will report to our Chief People Officer.
You will:
- Partner closely with the Chief People Officer and People Leadership team to drive our strategic priorities across the People Team and Waymo. Distill insights and recommendations for leadership.
- Enable our People Ops vision and priorities by partnering with our People team centers of expertise to seamlessly execute our programs and experiences for our various user segments (Leaders, Managers, Waymonauts overall).
- Change management expertise and ownership of the stage gates for completion of a project landilanding
- Identify gaps, roadblocks and points of misalignment, and develop clear actions to address in service of landing all our People team products and services with delight by our users.
- Elevate our People team brand internally by building strong execution, delivery and trust in service of achieving Waymo’s overall organizational goals.
- Develop and sustain critical relationships with Director+ level stakeholders in order to ensure strong influence and drive cross-functional leadership alignment in service of shared goals, quickly building and retaining trust.
- Ownership and execution of internal People Team communication vehicles and content to ensure information flow and updates are real time.
You have:
- BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 12+ years relevant work experience, including partnering with People teams involving hands-on project management, business partnership and consulting to implementation.
- Demonstrated experience with root cause analysis, quickly diagnosing the heart of the issue, from the complex to the complicated, to design and implement solutions that cut across multiple disciplines, including those beyond people and organizational solutions.
- Strong analytical and structured problem solving skills with demonstrated ability to analyze data, understand trends, develop recommendations for action based on the analysis and present up-leveled insights for leadership.
- Demonstrated experience co-designing and collaborating across the People team to set the vision for what's possible and move our talent strategy forward in partnership with business leaders.
- Comfortable rolling up your sleeves to get things done and the next moment being part of deeply complex strategy discussions with frequent shift of focus and topics; effective balance of tailoring solutions and standardization.
- Experience influencing through strong relationships, expertise and data and managing a complex set of stakeholders.
- Proven organizational and communication skills with high attention to detail.
- Demonstrated leadership experience working in ambiguous and dynamic environments, with high pace of change, flexing and adapting to deliver on the business objectives.
We prefer:
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A combination of larger company and earlier stage company experience
Travel requirements
- Travel as needed to visit client groups in different office locations + team gatherings
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.
