Commercial Operations Planning

Waymo

Operations Planner managing commercial plans for autonomous technology markets at Waymo. Collaborating with regional leadership to drive planning cycles and optimize operations across various aspects.

Posted 4/30/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $159,000 - $196,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

SQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the commercial plans for the markets within your region, acting as the definitive voice and strategic driver for your territory within broader planning processes. You will partner closely with regional leadership and product teams to drive cross-functional strategy, acting with indirect ownership of the markets themselves.
Drive comprehensive planning cycles with key stakeholders, understanding every working nuance of your markets to optimize operations across all intersecting areas of planning, product, and execution.
Build and manage highly intricate models to accurately forecast, answer complex "what-if" scenarios, and extract deep operational insights that can only be gleaned through advanced planning processes.
Uplevel core planning software and methodologies, applying expertise in Anaplan and intricate spreadsheet-driven models to ensure accurate forecasting and seamless alignment with corporate financial strategy.
Lead business optimization initiatives, utilizing your strategic regional knowledge to translate chaotic hyperlocal friction—such as macroeconomic volatility, ridehailing marketplace dynamics, and infrastructure constraints—into structured business processes and decisions that ensure commercial success.
Distill complex operational narratives from regional happenings to elevate business review meetings, conducting continuous "performance bridging" to trace key metrics to their systemic root causes, and then feed those bridges and insights back into their commercial plans

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Finance, Business Analytics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
5+ years of relevant professional experience in strategic operations, technical program management, financial planning, or a highly analytical business function.
Extensive experience owning end-to-end planning cycles and acting as a strategic, cross-functional partner to regional leadership and product teams.
Deep, hands-on expertise in navigating, auditing, and building highly detailed models within enterprise planning platforms (specifically Anaplan) and advanced spreadsheet environments.
The ability to distill highly complex operational data and technical what-if scenarios into clear, executive-level narratives that drive high-stakes business reviews.
A proven track record of acting as an advocate to drive cross-functional strategy, cost-down initiatives, and revenue optimizations.
Demonstrated knowledge of SQL to manipulate underlying data schemas, clean and distill business data, and build custom statistical models where needed.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program
equity incentive plan
generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements

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Hard Skills & Tools

financial planningstrategic operationsbusiness analyticsdata modelingforecastingSQLAnaplanadvanced spreadsheet skillsperformance metrics analysiscost-down initiatives

Soft Skills

strategic thinkingcross-functional collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvinganalytical skillsleadershipnarrative buildingadvocacyorganizational skillsinsight generation