Product and Litigation Counsel

Company: Waymo
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: November 13, 2024

Job Description:

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the 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 One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over one million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving tens of millions of miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 13+ U.S. states.As part of Waymo's Legal team, you will work on the exciting legal issues surrounding our transformational autonomous driving technology and help guide our business forward from technology development through scaled commercial deployment.
You will be based in or around the Bay area (hybrid in office/work from home) and report into our Assistant General Counsel.
You will:

• Manage and advise on lawsuits, investigations, and subpoena matters
• Provide proactive product counseling advice to our safety, engineering, and operations teams
• Advise on product litigation risk
• Advise on approaches to inbound inquiries, internal and external communications, and proposed safety publications
• Participate as a member of the legal incident response team
  You have:
  
  • 5+ years of prior litigation and/or product counseling experience with a law firm or in-house legal department.
  • The ability to partner at all levels of the company and across different teams, 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.
  • High level of enthusiasm for winning together as a team, driving achievement while being business-focused, and working collaboratively with legal and non-legal partners.
    We prefer:
    
    • Experience working with or at an automotive, technology company.Product counseling experience.
    • 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, or other product, commercial, employment, or IP litigation experience.
      #LI-hybridThe 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.Salary Range$226,000-$286,000 USD

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