Regulatory Counsel

As part of Waymo's Legal team, you will work on the exciting legal issues surrounding our transformational autonomous driving technology and help drive our business lines forward from technology ideation 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 drive our corporate and commercial transactions. We ensure compliance with an increasingly complex and dynamic range of global regulations. And we anticipate, mitigate, and litigate high-profile and precedent-setting legal matters.

In this hybrid role, you will report into our Assistant General Counsel, Regulatory.

• Advise on the applicability of existing state and local laws and regulations in novel factual situations.
• Partner with cross-functional partners (e.g. Policy, Product, Safety, Engineering) to shape outcomes in regulatory and legislative proceedings that impact Waymo’s operations.
• Represent Waymo in interactions with government agencies.
• Advise teams building scalable operational and regulatory compliance programs and processes.
• Gain subject matter expertise in new areas as novel issues and topics emerge.

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an accredited law school and active bar membership.
• 3 to 5+ years of experience as an attorney at a firm, in-house at a company, or in government, practicing in the area of administrative law, agency regulations, regulatory legislation and/or compliance.
• Experience with relevant subject matter such as autonomous vehicles, other automotive, ride-hailing, delivery.
• Exceptional analytical and writing skills and a comprehensive understanding of complex legal subject matter, together with excellent communication skills.
• Experience in supporting the expansion of highly regulated business operations. 
• Ability to propose practical solutions to legal issues and lead legal compliance and risk mitigation efforts, executing with appropriate urgency.

• Experience in ambiguous or challenging situations involving safety-critical issues.
• A track record of collaborative engagement with industry stakeholders about sensitive, complex topics.
• Experience working as legislative staff or counsel.

• Potential for travel to support domestic expansion efforts in partnership with cross-functional partners (e.g. Policy, Regulatory Compliance, Operations).