Operations Controller

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Job description

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's 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’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.

Waymo Operations exists to deliver the Waymo Driver to the world. We are a global team building and scaling the world's first and leading autonomous fleet and operations platform. From component sourcing to end customer management, we enable and create value for Waymo through scaled and orchestrated deployment of the Waymo Driver. At Waymo, we are dedicated to building a culture that promotes collaboration and celebration. We value our team members' unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences and support and encourage all team members to share their ideas to help Waymo better serve the communities in which we operate.

In this hybrid role, you will report to the Senior Director, Global Operations Center. Please note this is shift work and will be overnight. 

You will:

• Exercise Real-Time Operational Authority: Act as the designated authority on shift for Waymo’s network, maintaining end-to-end situational awareness across target markets
• Evaluate and Triage Network Disruption: Exercise operational control during incidents, disruptions and safety-critical events, making timely decisions to stabilize and recover service, and escalating as appropriate
• Synchronize Regional Strategy: Partner closely with Regional Market Leads, ensuring alignment between network-level priorities and market-level realities, representing local impacts, risks, and constraints in network-level decision-making to ensure balanced outcomes.
• Manage Global-Local Balance: Apply a network-first mindset while balancing local conditions and regulatory considerations to maintain compliance and performance.
• Manage Crisis Communications: Communicate with clarity, authority, and a calm demeanor during high-pressure situations to maintain organizational confidence.
• Bridge Cross-Functional Workstreams: Coordinate directly with Product, Engineering, Operations teams and other cross-functional partners to seamlessly execute incident responses.

You have:

• 12+ years of experience making decisions in real-time, mission-critical operational environments in fast-paced, 24/7 environments
• Proven track record of high-judgment decision-making under extreme pressure, with a demonstrated ability to stand by choices using data-driven arguments.
• Experience leading cross-functional event response in high-stakes environments, with clear structure, decision discipline and communication and the ability to provide immediate actionable guidance.
• Strong systems-thinking capabilities with the ability to synthesize live signals to maintain situational awareness across target markets.
• Exemplary communication and presentation skills, with the confidence to deliver crisp briefings to cross-functional leaders and stakeholders.
• Ability to align network priorities with regional market realities and technical engineering constraints.

We prefer:

• Operational experience within emergency services, aviation, or autonomous operations    
• 15+ years of experience making decisions in real-time, mission-critical operational environments in fast-paced, 24/7 environments    

Travel:

• 10% travel 

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. 

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How Tempe compares. Among the 80 largest places in Arizona, Tempe is #9 by population, #78 for homeownership (#1 = highest), #10 for long commutes (#1 = fewest), #12 for college degrees (#1 = most). Its county, Maricopa County, is #2 of 15 counties for average pay ($73,840).

The place in numbers

Tempe has 188,065 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 2.5% of the population of Arizona. It covers 40 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 4,704 people per square mile. The median age is 30.0, 23% younger than the state median (30.0 against 39.0).

Housing

The median gross rent is $1,743 a month (rent plus utilities), 13% above the state median ($1,743 against $1,543). Over a year that is 26.3% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $455,400, which is 5.7 times the median household income ($79,663); a ratio above 5 usually means buying is out of reach without savings or a second income. 42.3% of households own their home, 37% below the state average (42.3% against 67.4%). A low ownership share points to a rental-heavy market with more apartments and shorter stays.

Work and pay

The Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metropolitan area has 2,375,760 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $51,380 a year, about the same as the national median ($51,380 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (295,910 jobs, median $48,120); sales and related (221,850 jobs, median $39,320); transportation and material moving (206,600 jobs, median $45,620). The area is most specialised in construction and extraction (1.4 times) and management (1.1 times), where the share of workers is above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($114,410) and computer and mathematical ($105,240). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Maricopa County was 4.1%. 71.9% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Maricopa County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 59.0% drive alone, 3.4% use public transit, 3.7% walk, 21.2% work from home. 7.2% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 49% below the state average (7.2% against 14.2%).

People and education

50.0% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 50% above the state share (50.0% against 33.3%). 14.4% of residents were born outside the United States, 11% above the state share (14.4% against 13.0%). The poverty rate is 15.8%, 27% above the state rate (15.8% against 12.5%).

Climate

The warmest month is Jul, averaging 93°F (33.9°C), and the coolest is Dec at 52°F (11.0°C). About 254 mm (10 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Jan is the wettest month (33 mm) and Jun the driest (2 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

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What is the Operations Controller job at Waymo?

A private-sector role in finance and insurance (accounting, audit and tax) listed 38 days ago. The full description is on this page and on the employer's page.

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Median rent in Tempe is $1,743 a month and median household income $79,663 (ACS 2020–2024).

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