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Waymo

Planning Manager

Waymo

Planning Manager at Waymo's Global Operations Center overseeing capacity planning and resource scaling. Collaborating with teams to ensure operational efficiency and strategic outcomes.

Posted 5/1/2026full-time🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $159,000 - $196,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
SQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Build and own the global framework for Global Operations Center capacity planning, acting as the primary program manager for resource scaling.
  • Apply strong business judgment to ensure resource strategies accurately reflect commercial targets and real-world operational constraints.
  • Oversee execution across large, cross-organization vendor partnerships, prioritizing structural efficiency models and strict SLA compliance.
  • Provide critical input to decision-makers by translating complex capacity models into decisive narratives with clear P&L implications.
  • Identify risks and advocate for structural fixes and "principled spending" rather than relying on temporary resource additions.
  • Periodically perform technical deep-dives to ensure mathematical and capacity models remain transparent, verifiable, and free of "black box" assumptions.
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, and Data Science to deploy models within centralized planning ecosystems.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Supply Chain, Operations Management, Finance, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5+ years of experience driving outcomes in capacity planning, commercial operations, S&OP, or strategic program management.
  • Proven ability to drive collaborations with strategic partnership teams and proactively manage dependencies during high-growth phases.
  • Exemplary presentation skills with the confidence to establish the "source of truth" and influence senior decision-makers.
  • Direct expertise building and maintaining capacity models and roadmaps within scaled enterprise platforms like Anaplan.
  • Proficiency with data querying (SQL) and foundational quantitative modeling to effectively guide technical partners and validate data.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Discretionary annual bonus program
  • Equity incentive plan
  • Generous Company benefits program

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Hard Skills & Tools
capacity planningcommercial operationsS&OPstrategic program managementdata queryingSQLquantitative modelingcapacity modelsresource scalingstructural efficiency
Soft Skills
business judgmentcollaborationpresentation skillsinfluencerisk identificationadvocacycommunicationdecision-makingnarrative translationdependency management