Senior Product Manager, Mapping

Summary

Join Waymo's Product Management Team as a Product Manager focusing on critical mapping initiatives. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining a roadmap for mapping, collaborating with engineers to improve efficiency, and honing processes for quality control. The role requires experience in managing critical databases and stakeholder management. Preferred qualifications include experience in mapping or geospatial projects and working with large teams. Waymo offers a competitive salary, annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and a generous benefits program.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a PM, or 3+ years of PM and 2+ as a SWE in a relevant field
• Experience managing quality/delivery of a critical database utilized by numerous consumers/subscribers
• Experience in some kind of mission-critical capacity (i.e. impacting critical revenue, safety, or brand-safety metrics)
• Responsible for delivery of constantly delivered outputs on a set schedule with SLAs for internal and/or external customers, and with the expectation of continuous and significant improvement on those metrics
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, gathering requirements from disparate technical and/or product areas

Responsibilities

• Maintain a short, medium, and long-term vision and defensible roadmap for the most critical mapping initiatives to drive Waymo’s path to scale
• Work closely with a team of ML/AI engineers to improve the speed and efficiency of our automated mapping building and maintenance operations
• Develop and hone processes to marry our software to human processes for quality control, labeling, and exceptions management
• Work with onboard Product Managers, Engineers, and Systems Engineers to ensure that the evolution of our maps’ contents are aligned with our Driver capabilities
• Coordinate the launch and rollout of automated models and mapping software

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in mapping or geospatial projects (AR/VR, visual/geospatial AI)
• Experience working with scaled people operations (large teams of vendors/contractors/teams). Labeling for AI/ML applications is sufficient if accompanied by deep AI/ML experience
• Experience working with technical / complex workflows involving complex/subjective policies
• Skillsets in querying/analyzing data from large datasets and interpreting and visualizing results
• Capable of making tradeoffs between system/team quality (e.g. precision/recall) and system/team efficiency (e.g. compute/latency)

Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus program
• Equity incentive plan
• Generous Company benefits program