Salary
💰 $243,000 - $308,000 per year
About the role
- Develop, refine, and execute the strategy and playbook for collaborating with airports globally to bring Waymo to more airports and ensuring the success of our service at airports from the customer, airport and Waymo perspective
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of business development professionals focused on our airport partnerships
- Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with key airport stakeholders, industry associations, and regulatory bodies and act as a spokesperson for Waymo
- Identify, prioritize, and pursue new airport partnership opportunities and negotiate multi-faceted agreements with airport authorities and other stakeholders
- Partner closely with cross-functional teams including policy, product, engineering, finance, marketing, communications, strategy and legal to align on goals
- Report to the Senior Director of Business Development & Strategic Partnerships and support regional partnership development
Requirements
- 10+ years of work experience, including 6+ years in business development or strategic partnerships in the technology, transportation and/or travel sector
- Experience working with leadership and/or staff across multiple US airports
- Experience structuring and negotiating strategic partnership agreements and commercial operating permits
- 2+ years of direct people management experience
- Experience leading and influencing a cross-functional team, particularly a team that includes policy, operations, product, marketing and finance stakeholders
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
- Deep understanding of the autonomous vehicle, ride hailing or broader mobility industries (preferred)
- International business development experience (preferred)
- Existing working relationships with leadership across multiple US airports (preferred)
- Experience with operations (preferred)