People Strategy Manager

Waymo’s People team recruits and supports the world’s best talent. Our business partners, program leaders, staffers, and compensation specialists help our employees attain their full potential in a healthy, considerate and supportive environment. We take our role as stewards of Waymo's culture seriously.

People Strategy keeps Waymo's People team ahead of the business as its central go-to-market partner. We run People priorities as one portfolio, sequencing launches and building scalable infrastructure to support Waymo's scaled expansion. We're operators who own outcomes end-to-end: no task too small, no idea too big.

In this hybrid role you will be based out of Mountain View, CA or San Francisco, CA and report to our Head of People Strategy.

You will:

• Drive the People team's most important work across priorities, products, growth and emerging needs. You'll be both strategist and operator: shaping the plan, then executing it with partners. You'll start with a focus area, then flex to wherever the business needs you most, from building new programs to strengthening ones already running. Your first focus is growth and expansion
• Orchestrate the People team's international expansion: set cross-functional governance and drive market-entry compliance, entity setup and staffing models across a multi-year roadmap, enabling People Business Partners to deploy with their business leaders
• Partner with Finance on workforce planning and set Waymo's workforce and location strategy, equipping People Business Partners to design and execute plans with their business leaders
• Distill complex, ambiguous growth challenges into clear problem statements, options and recommendations for senior leaders
• Navigate sensitive cross-functional issues with sound judgment and discretion, building the alignment needed to move work forward

 

You have:

• 12+ years of experience in People strategy or programs, corporate strategy, business operations, or program and portfolio management
• Experience leading international expansion into highly regulated markets (e.g., entity setup, employment compliance, in-country hiring)
• Experience building workforce plans, headcount models or location strategies with Finance and business leaders
• Experience turning analysis into clear recommendations and narratives that move senior executives and cross-functional teams across geographies and time zones
• Track record of operating independently once the goal is clear: taking initiative, making decisions, and knowing when to escalate

 

We prefer:

• Experience working within a People function at a growing company
• Experience moving work forward across many teams at any stage (shaping it, running it, or landing it), knowing when to own it and when to hand it off, and building trust along the way
• Ability to adapt as priorities shift while leading several high-impact programs at once

 

Travel Requirements:

• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to ~10% of the time.