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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. 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 enable compliance with an increasingly complex and dynamic range of global regulations. And we anticipate, mitigate, and litigate high-profile and precedent-setting legal matters. This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to the Head of AV Compliance   You will: Lead the development, implementation, and execution of Waymo’s external data reporting program for the EMEA region     Intake regulatory requirements focused on reporting, and partner with Legal, Product, Operations, and Engineering teams to establish company-wide policies, standards, and procedure documentation that govern Waymo’s reporting activities in EMEA     Act as a strategic leader within the company to support cross-functional teams’ compliance controls and readiness for regulatory scrutiny     Own the end-to-end regulatory reporting program, including the compilation, quality controls, submission, and tooling development for required data reporting across Waymo’s EMEA markets     Identify and analyze potential risks that impact the company’s intended growth, and lead cross functional efforts to mitigate risks to support commercial scale     You have: At least 5 years of experience working on a compliance program in a highly regulated industry, preferably with experience managing regulatory reporting     High-level organizational and program management skills, with a proven track record of leading cross functional initiatives from concept to completion     Demonstrated resilience and leadership in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, with a focus on problem-solving     Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to distill complex or ambiguous regulatory requirements into actionable guidance for diverse audiences     Advanced "gap-finding" and risk-assessment abilities, with proven experience proactively mitigating issues before they impact operations     Analytical background with the ability to independently source and analyze data, identify deficiencies or trends, and present facts and findings to senior leadership       We prefer: Proficiency speaking and writing in English with the ability to also speak Spanish and/or German, including preparing technical data reporting and interacting with local regulators     Deep expertise working with autonomous vehicle, transportation, or ride-hailing regulations and policy     Demonstrated expertise in working with regulations and regulatory bodies