Legal Specialist - Litigation and Investigations

Waymo
$180,000-$227,000 USD
United States, California, San Francisco
Aug 23, 2024
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the 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 One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over one million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving tens of millions of miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 13+ U.S. states. 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. You will: Manage all aspects of information related to product litigation matters, including discovery and third-party requests. Potential to expand to commercial, employment and IP related matters. Partner with counsel to guide the team and custodians, and prepare for pre-trial and trial activities. Remain current on trends and improve knowledge management, document storage, and legal reviews across the legal team. Support the Legal Operations team with billing, vendor management, and tooling projects. Coordinate knowledge-sharing meetings with outside counsel and experts, and internal staff. You have: 7+ years of prior litigation experience with a law firm or in-house legal department. Knowledge of litigation, experience managing litigation teams, overseeing outside counsel, and coordinating ediscovery processes using the latest technology. Experience supporting and partnering with product counsel and regulatory teams. Experience supporting product litigation and investigation matters, with focus on product liability. Experience partnering with different teams, including executives and technical staff. We prefer: Experience working with or at an automotive or technology company. In-house or trial experience. Experience responding to governmental requests for information, or other torts, commercial, employment, or IP litigation experience. #LI-Hybrid 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 $180,000 — $227,000 USD