Product Counsel, Dbw

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.

You will:

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  • Provide proactive product counseling advice to safety, engineering, security, and operations teams.
  • Advise on product and operational litigation risk, including safety and security matters.
  • Advise on interactions with partners, vendors, and suppliers on matters posing litigation risk, including investigations.
  • Advise on approaches to inbound inquiries, internal and external communications, and proposed safety-related research publications.
  • Participate as a member of the legal incident response team.
  
  
  
  

You have:

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  • 5+ years of prior litigation and/or product counseling experience with a law firm and/or in-house legal department.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to partner effectively at all levels of the company and cross-functionally, including with executives and technical staff.
  • Understanding of the product life cycle, vehicle/fleet operations, litigation life-cycle, and judicial process.
  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail; ability to manage a significant workload with competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
  • High level of enthusiasm for winning together as a team, driving achievement while being business-focused, and working collaboratively with legal and non-legal stakeholders.
  
  
  
  

We prefer:

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  • Experience working with or at an automotive, technology company, or with complex hardware, software, and interrelated technologies.
  • Product counseling experience,
  • Operations and Fleet experience
  • Experience counseling across a range of subject matters relevant to regulated industries or AI.
  • In-house and/or trial experience.
  • Experience providing legal advice on crisis management or internal investigations.
  • Experience advising on multi-party tort litigation or investigations.
  • Experience responding to governmental requests for information, and/or other torts, commercial, employment, or IP litigation experience.