Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's 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’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.

Waymo's cars may be self-driving, but its construction projects are steered by experts like you. Safety is our foundation and is at the heart of everything we do. As Waymo's Construction Project Executive, Ops you will be responsible for site due diligence, design oversight, permitting and build out of a variety of locations across industrial, automotive service and EV charging typologies for Waymo in an extremely fast paced environment with a high degree of ambiguity. At every turn, process excellence, collaboration, and detailed cross-org communications are critical.

In this hybrid role you will report to the Head of Project Delivery.

You will:

• Be responsible for site due diligence, negotiations of transaction work letter documents, permitting, design oversight and build out of a variety of locations across ev charging and automotive service center typologies that include electrical utility upgrades
• Synthesize and present executive-level business cases for capital investment strategies across a diverse portfolio of projects
• Build trusted relationships across the business and act as liaison to ensure alignment between investments and the portfolio strategies. Effectively communicate expectations, requirements and status of deals to key business stakeholders, building a culture of speed, flexibility and frugality for solutioning
• Partner cross-functionally with GPS peers, Legal, Finance, Procurement, Security, and Network teams to drive the seamless execution and delivery of high-impact construction projects
• Innovate and execute processes and tools to ensure the complete cycle from site search due diligence through deal execution to the first day of business is completed consistently and predictably, managing ever-changing variety of internal initiatives and projects
• Create, innovate and implement relevant systems of metrics to plan, manage and measure performance pertaining to the project delivery process

You have:

• 10+ years of real estate project management of industrial operations, automobile service and charging of at least 300,000 square feet
• An understanding of various real estate typologies (workplace, lab, industrial, manufacturing, automotive service, EV charging)
• Experience leading large scale real estate construction projects, orchestrating teams of project managers, architects, contractors, consultants and attorneys through deal flows at values of $20M each and greater
• Exceptional project delivery skills, including the ability to gather relevant jurisdictional limitations and roadblocks, as well as communicate recommendations effectively to various stakeholders
• Advanced financial reporting and analysis acumen as well as budget management
• Experience developing and implementing process improvements to streamline the full project delivery cycle inclusive of a strong understanding of and experience using AI tools to enhance construction management workflows

We prefer:

• A track record of proven objective analysis, having delivering projects in an atmosphere where speed, flexibility and frugality are the norm
• Business relationship management expertise
• Degree in construction management, architecture, engineering, real estate, business administration or finance
• Automotive and/or rideshare sector interest, if not experience
• Drive to work in a startup environment, ideally in tech industry
• Commercial vehicle fleet infrastructure and electrical infrastructure/ utility upgrade delivery experience as well as other technical expertise with building and site infrastructure

Travel Requirements:

• 25% Travel Time

The 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

$190,000—$234,000 USD