Litigation Counsel

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.

You will be based in or around the Bay area (hybrid in office/work from home) and report into our Assistant General Counsel.

You will:

• 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

You have:

• 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

We prefer:

• Experience counseling across a range of subject matters relevant to regulated industries or AI.
• In-house and/or trial experience.
• Experience responding to governmental requests for information, and/or other torts, commercial, employment, or IP litigation experience.
• On call or incident response experience
• Experience advising on document retention programs