Waymo · 1 week ago
Litigation Counsel
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$238K/yr - $302K/yr
6+ years expWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. In this role, you will manage litigation and provide proactive legal advice related to autonomous vehicle liability while collaborating with various teams to ensure compliance with regulations.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
Responsibilities
Primarily responsible for managing litigation, support claims management, civil subpoenas, and related document production
Further Waymo's litigation readiness, including proactive discovery preparedness
Provide proactive litigation and product liability prevention advice
Provide strategic counsel on the development of emerging law pertaining to AV liability
Participate on the legal on call rotation for incident response
Advise on, and prepare responses to document and information requests for investigations
Qualification
Required
6+ years of prior litigation experience with a law firm and/or in-house legal department
Product liability, automotive negligence, and/or data rights litigation experience
Excellent communication skills and ability to partner effectively at all levels of the company and cross-functionally, including with executives and technical staff
Detailed and in-depth understanding of the litigation life-cycle, experience managing offensive and defensive litigation team efforts, and ediscovery processes, workflows and best practices
Strong organizational skills and attention to detail; ability to manage a significant workload with competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment
Experience working with engineers of complex products and/or novel technologies
Preferred
Experience counseling across a range of subject matters relevant to regulated industries or AI
In-house and/or trial experience
Experience responding to governmental requests for information, and/or other torts, commercial, employment, land-use/property rights, or IP litigation experience
On call or incident response experience
Experience advising on document retention programs
International litigation/arbitration experience
Benefits
Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program
Equity incentive plan
Generous Company benefits program
Company
Waymo
Waymo is a mobility technology company that improves transportation by developing self-driving solutions for travelers and daily commuters. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$11.1BKey Investors
Alphabet
2024-07-23Series C· $5.6B
2021-06-16Series B· $2.5B
2020-05-12Series A· $750M
Leadership Team
Tekedra Mawakana
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Annabel Chang
Head of State Policy & Government Relations
Recent News
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