Product Manager (Perception Modeling, Semantics)

About the Team

Waymo's Product Management Team is a mission-driven team responsible for writing and enacting first-of-their-kind playbooks to bring fully autonomous driving technology to market. Our team develops simple solutions for complex problems by orchestrating cross-functional efforts to safely drive Waymo's technology and the products it enables forward. We do this by understanding the customer, the business, and the technology. We are humble about the scope of our work, collaborative in our approach to problem-solving, and ambitious about our vision for the future.

This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to a Group Product Manager.

Responsibilities

• Act as an approver for model launches, understanding and negotiating between tradeoffs, regressions, and improvements across all of a model's surface area.
• Plan for future investments into model capabilities on a 12+ month timeline by understanding the limitations of the current model architecture and the immediate needs of our Ridehailing business.
• Set the vision for model architecture on a 12-36 month timeline by understanding the overall needs of Waymo and the current State of the Art ML/AI research, focused on Object-level Semantic understanding + reasoning.
• Manage the execution of upcoming milestones by working directly with a group of 60+ engineers, Technical Program Managers, and other Product Managers.
• Conduct root cause analysis and conferring with partners in Engineering to propose viable solutions by examining AV behavior from a mix of real world, synthetic, and simulated events.

Benefits

• Health & Wellness: Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents, employee assistance programs, mental health apps, onsite wellness centers, menopause benefits, counseling services, medical advocacy for transgender employees, and second medical opinions.
• Financial: Competitive compensation, regular bonus and equity performance grant opportunities, generous 401(k) and regional retirement plans, annual compensation review, pay equity analysis, and 1-on-1 financial coaching.
• Family Support: Fertility and growing family assistance, parental leave, baby bonding leave, survivor income benefit, backup childcare, elder care and support, and caregiver leave.
• Time Off: Paid time off (vacation, bereavement, sick leave, parental leave, disability, holidays), jury duty leave, and military leave.
• Work Environment: Hybrid work model with remote opportunities, educational reimbursement, peer learning and coaching platform, donation matching, volunteer hours, employee resource groups, internal community groups, and local culture clubs.
• On-site Perks: Inspiring workspaces, on-site meals and snacks, fitness centers, massage programs, ergonomic support, and on-demand fitness, wellbeing, and cooking classes.
• Commuter Benefits: Provided for eligible employees.