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Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its beginnings 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 lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride‑hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases, having provided over ten million rider‑only trips and driven more than 100 million miles on public roads in more than fifteen 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. You will partner with public policy, safety, security and privacy experts to define transportation policy for the autonomous driving world, advising on regulatory changes that support and protect our users worldwide. You will collaborate with engineering, product, strategy and operations teams to develop and protect our intellectual property portfolio and drive corporate and commercial transactions, ensuring compliance with an increasingly complex and dynamic range of global regulations and managing high‑profile, precedent‑setting legal matters.

In this hybrid role, you will report into our Managing Counsel, Regulatory, Policy, Product.

You Will

• Develop vision, strategy, and implementation for complying with a range of regulations – interpreting legacy legal and regulatory frameworks that did not anticipate our novel technology and advising on new laws and regulations developed with AVs and related emerging technology in mind.
• Advise on matters at the local, state, federal, and international levels, with an emphasis on the UK and the EU (e.g., requirements to operate in new jurisdictions; legislative review and drafting of proposed legislation and regulations).
• Engage in cross‑functional planning efforts to ensure that regulatory compliance and strategy are properly incorporated into the project roadmap.
• Respond to novel questions of law on various topics, including issues that may be new to you and/or the company.
• Provide counsel on proposed legislation and regulations and in negotiations among stakeholders.
• Collaborate with our Policy team on advocacy strategies for engaging with regulators and policymakers.

You Have

• Law degree (LLB, LLM or JD).
• Admitted to practice law in an EU member state or as a Solicitor or Barrister in the UK.
• 5‑8+ years of experience as an attorney at a firm, in‑house at a company, or in government.
• Experience with regulatory and legislative matters in the UK and/or EU (e.g., engaging in rulemaking processes, advising on legislative bill text, building regulatory compliance programs for a rapidly scaling company).
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt as the technology and regulatory landscape evolves.
• Exceptional written and spoken communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate with and ingest input from cross‑functional partners.
• Experience generating nuanced and pragmatic advice for novel or ambiguous legal issues.
• Experience as a self‑starter and getting things done.
• Ability to dig into the details and nuances of the law while deeply understanding the bigger picture of the legal, policy, and business landscapes.
• Desire and ability to learn how our complex technology works and apply that knowledge in your legal interpretations and advice.

We Prefer

• Experience working on emerging technology issues, with a bonus for experience with technology that impacts non‑users of the technology and/or safety.
• Experience working with teams and cross‑functional partners located in different countries.
• Business fluency in German, French, and/or Spanish.

Salary Range: £150,000 — £162,000 GBP

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Legal

Industries

Technology, Information and Internet