Waymo · 2 weeks ago
Product Counsel
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$238K/yr - $302K/yr
5+ years expWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. As part of Waymo's Legal team, the Product Counsel will work on legal issues surrounding autonomous driving technology, providing product counseling and advising on regulatory compliance to support the company's growth and protect users.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
Responsibilities
Provide proactive product counseling to safety, product, engineering, operations, and security teams
Deeply understand Waymo’s product, operations, and roadmaps, and provide business-focused advice to enable Waymo’s domestic and international growth
Advise on product and operational legal risk, including safety and security matters, across multiple jurisdictions and liability regimes (domestic and international)
Advise on interactions with partners, vendors, and suppliers on matters posing legal risk, including investigations
Advise on approaches to inbound inquiries, internal and external communications, and proposed safety-related research publications
Participate as a member of the legal incident response team
Qualification
Required
Law degree (LLB, LLM, or JD), plus at least 5 years of prior litigation and/or product counseling experience with a law firm or in-house legal department
Excellent communication skills and ability to explain complex legal concepts succinctly and pragmatically
Strong interpersonal skills and ability to partner effectively at all levels of the company and cross-functionally, including with executives and technical staff
Deep understanding of the product life-cycle, vehicle/fleet operations, and litigation/judicial process
Strong organizational skills and attention to detail; ability to manage a significant workload with competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment
Proficiency and comfort navigating ambiguity and developing effective, business-oriented solutions to managing legal risk; enthusiasm for winning together as a team and working collaboratively with legal and non-legal stakeholders
Preferred
Experience working with automotive or emerging technology companies, or with complex hardware, software, and interrelated technologies
Product counseling experience, including for products or operations spanning multiple domestic or international jurisdictions and product liability regimes
Cybersecurity, data security, and/or security counseling experience
Operations and fleet experience
Experience counseling across a range of subject matters relevant to regulated industries, emerging technologies, or AI
Experience providing legal advice on crisis management or internal investigations
Experience defending multi-party tort litigation, investigations, or trials
Experience responding to governmental requests for information, and/or other torts, commercial, employment, or IP litigation 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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2025 (231)
2024 (175)
2023 (268)
2022 (306)
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2020 (317)
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
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