Technical Lead Manager (Rider Growth)

TL;DR

Technical Lead Manager (Rider Growth): Leading a cross-functional engineering team to drive rider acquisition, activation, and retention for autonomous ride-hailing services with an accent on scalable backend architecture and data-driven product experimentation. Focus on building personalized promotional engines, optimizing user onboarding flows, and mentoring senior engineering talent to ensure high-performance system reliability.

Location: Must be based in or able to work from Mountain View, California (Hybrid)

Salary: $251,000–$310,000 USD

Company

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company dedicated to building the world's most trusted driver and improving mobility through fully autonomous ride-hail services.

What you will do

• Recruit, mentor, and grow a diverse, high-performing engineering team focused on rider growth.
• Partner with Product, UX, and Data Science to define and execute the rider acquisition and retention roadmap.
• Architect scalable backend systems and retention frameworks, including subscription and loyalty programs.
• Collaborate with ML scientists to design low-latency promotional engines that shape rider demand.
• Drive a quantitative engineering culture through robust A/B testing and experimentation practices.
• Ensure the scalability, latency, and reliability of services integrated with core fleet and routing engines.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience managing and scaling high-performing software engineering teams.
• 6+ years of hands-on development experience in distributed backend systems (Go, Java, C++, or Python) or B2C mobile apps.
• Deep experience with product experimentation, A/B testing, and statistical analysis.
• Fluency in data analytics tools like SQL and Python/Pandas.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment while maintaining high engineering standards.

Nice to have

• Extensive experience scaling B2C products across the full LTV lifecycle.
• Proven success architecting ML-driven systems for real-time offer surfacing and ranking.
• Strong ability to translate business and economic goals into technical requirements.

Culture & Benefits

• Participation in discretionary annual bonus program and equity incentive plan.
• Comprehensive company benefits program.
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge autonomous driving technology.
• Collaborative environment with cross-functional teams including ML scientists and economists.