Litigation Counsel - Remote

Overview

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.

In Short

• Be primarily responsible for managing litigation, civil subpoenas, and related document production
• Further Waymo's litigation readiness, including proactive discovery preparedness
• Provide proactive litigation and product liability prevention advice
• Counsel the insurance team on managing claims
• Participate on the legal on call rotation for incident response
• Advise on, and prepare responses to document and information requests for investigations

Requirements

• 6+ years of prior litigation experience with a law firm and/or in-house legal department.
• Product liability and automotive negligence experience
• Experience responding to governmental investigations, familiarity with NHTSA investigations.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to partner effectively at all levels of the company and cross-functionally, including with executives and technical staff.
• Detailed and in-depth understanding of the litigation life-cycle, experience managing offensive and defensive litigation team efforts, and ediscovery processes, workflows and best practices.
• 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.
• Experience working with engineers of complex products and/or novel technologies
• Strong problem solving skills and ability to manage ambiguity

Benefits

• Waymo employees are eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.