Employee Relations Partner

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 ensure compliance with an increasingly complex and dynamic range of global regulations. And we anticipate, mitigate, and litigate high-profile and precedent-setting legal matters.

In this hybrid role, you will report to our Senior Counsel, Head of Employment Legal

You will:

• Conduct investigations involving allegations of policy and/or employment legal violations, working to ensure that issues are properly identified, reported, investigated and resolved.
• Provide expert advice and counsel to managers and HR Business Partners to ensure correct application and integration of policies on issues with particular risk.
• Proactively research, interpret, and track applicable employment laws and conduct periodic risk assessments and internal audits of HR functions to identify and address non-compliance gaps, as part of a larger HR compliance program.
• Draft and manage HR policies, and provide expert guidance on HR tools, templates and processes for legal compliance and alignment with Waymo’s goals and values.

You have:

• At least five (5) years of experience investigating complex employee relations issues and/or advising on complex employee relations issues as a licensed attorney.
• Excellent oral and writing skills and experience writing investigation reports.
• Experience working on employee relations or employment law matters in both a startup and large company environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to build trust and influence at all levels of the organization, and collaborate with other teams.
• Able to manage multiple stakeholders and priorities independently and keep current with workload.
• Experience developing and managing a HR compliance program.

We prefer:

• Juris Doctorate (JD) with at least 3 years of experience practicing employment law
• Masters in Business Administration (MBA) or advanced degree in Human Resources
• Experience working in a mid- to late-startup technology company

Travel requirements

• As needed.