Commercial Corporate Counsel, Waymo
$226-286k
Eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program and equity incentive plan
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Autonomous driving technology
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Autonomous driving technology
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$226-286k
Eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program and equity incentive plan
Office located in Mountain View, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it simpler and safer for people to move things and themselves around.
Role
Who you are
- JD degree, admission to the bar, and in good standing or otherwise authorized to practice law in the state where the position is located
- 3+ years of experience advising on intellectual property and commercial agreements
- Experience drafting and negotiating commercial agreements such as licenses, supply, and services agreements
- Experience in another specialist area of law (e.g. employment, intellectual property, corporate, or competition)
- Experience advising clients from hardware supply, R&D or new technology companies
- Experience managing multiple projects and developing expertise in new, complex subjects
What the job involves
- 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
- We partner with our public policy, safety, security and privacy experts to define transportation policy for the autonomous driving world to come, advising on regulatory changes that support and protect our users around the world
- We collaborate with our engineering, product, strategy and operations teams to develop and protect our intellectual property portfolio and guide our corporate and commercial transactions
- We ensure compliance with a complex and dynamic range of global regulations. And we anticipate, mitigate, and litigate high-profile and precedent-setting legal matters
- You will be based hybrid on-site in the Bay area and report into our Managing Counsel
- Review, draft and negotiate a variety of commercial agreements, such as hardware purchase and development, inbound services, supply chain, joint development and collaboration and other commercial transactional agreements
- Respond promptly to legal requests from our product, engineering, sourcing, business development, finance, and marketing teams, summarizing and communicating legal concepts
- Advise cross-functional partners on legal issues such as product liability, regulatory matters, agreement structures, approval processes, IP, and negotiation strategies
- Support improvements to Waymo's legal department by streamlining processes, forms, and operations
Our take
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company that began as the Google self-driving car project in 2009. After initial development, it secured permits to deploy autonomous ride-hailing services in cities including Phoenix and San Francisco, but has recently hit a major bump in the road with safety concerns that resulted in a recall of over 400 self-driving cars.
With the autonomous driving industry already besieged by setbacks and public distrust, this development does Waymo no favours. That said, as an industry leader there remains the possibility it will see out the storm, but massive attention will need to be given to rebuilding trust with consumers if this is to be the case.
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Company Specialist
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2021
$2.5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
May 2020
$750m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $5.5bn
Company values
- Our customers are at the heart of everything we do
- Safety is our foundation
- We pioneer
- Act with thoughtful urgency
- Respect each other
- Be responsible owners
- We’re stronger together
- Optionality creates opportunities
- Always be learning
- Celebrate progress
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
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Leadership
Dmitri Dolgov
(Co-CEO, not founder)Former CTO of the company. After a PhD at the University of Michigan, they worked as a Stanford Postdoctoral Researcher before moving to the Toyota Research Institute. They also spent 8 years at Google as a Software Engineer.
Tekedra N. Mawakana
(Co-CEO, not founder)Has worked at Waymo since 2017, as Global Head of Policy then CXO then COO before becoming Co-CEO. They are on the Board of Advisors at Operator Collective, Board of Directors at Intuit, and an Advisor for Boom Supersonic.
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