Access Operations Technical Manager

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’s Access Operations Technical Specialist are accountable for Waymo’s roadmap execution by providing thoughtful cross-functional planning, clarity, and proactive risk management. In the face of complex technical and operational challenges with no established playbooks to follow, we act with thoughtful urgency, driving conversations, discussions, and outcomes. Our team partners closely with every function of Waymo to structure, own and drive work towards real-world deployments of the Waymo Driver across platforms and geographies.

In this hybrid role, you will report to an Head of Vendor Enablement Office.

You will:

• Access Management: Own current end-to-end processes and workflows for tooling & access management across Global Extended Workforce

• Write Code & Develop Tooling Requirements: Actively partner with Engineering to develop applications, scripts, and custom tooling that sit on top of current access systems to simplify access paths and drive operational efficiencies.

• Mitigate Access Risk: Lead proactive risk-reduction initiatives. Audit, design, and enforce strict "least privilege" models to ensure users are never over-provisioned with unnecessary tools or access.

• Program Lifecycle Management: Deliver simplified future state access management programs for the Global Extended Workforce, defining clear milestones, ownership, and technical dependencies.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner directly with Engineers, Tool Owners, Cybersecurity, and Business Leadership to translate complex security standards into frictionless technical workflows, develop tooling and access policies, and educate on best practices.
• System Automation: Exercise strong technical judgment to replace manual access-management bottlenecks with scalable, automated engineering solutions, leveraging an AI-first approach.

You have:

• Engineering & Coding Skills: Possess the technical depth to audit code-managed configurations, and comfort to make updates to reflect required access updates and policy tweaks to provide access paths in today’s environment. Focus on future state simplification by building requirements for internal access tools, processes and automation of workflows.

• IAM Expertise: Deep technical understanding of enterprise Identity Access Management frameworks (e.g., Okta, SailPoint, Google Cloud IAM, or custom frameworks).

• Risk Management Mindset: Proven ability to proactively identify access security risks, build mitigation and contingency plans, and track risk-reduction metrics (e.g., access latency, over-provisioning remediation).

• Technical Program Leadership: Strong capability to manage project timelines, navigate ambiguity, align conflicting priorities, and communicate complex architectures to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

We prefer:

• Hands-on Development: Experience in writing production-grade code (e.g., Python, Go, Java, or JavaScript) to build internal tools, automate workflows, and interface with REST/gRPC APIs.

• Application Architecture: Experience designing and developing lightweight applications or automation layers that sit on top of legacy vendor systems to optimize user experiences.

• Access Auditing & Governance: Direct experience building automated compliance or automated review workflows that detect, flag, and de-provision orphaned or unnecessary access rights.

• Extended Workforce Operations: Familiarity with managing the unique security and lifecycle requirements associated with vendor, contractor, or temporary external workforces.

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 $230,000 — $284,000 USD