Waymo

Facilities Market Lead, Los Angeles

Waymo$152K — $187K *
Real Estate & Construction
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BA/BS degree in Facilities Management, Business Management, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years of account management or facilities operations experience, preferably managing multi-site portfolios.
  • Strong experience in managing complex budgets and service delivery contracts.
  • In-depth knowledge of technological advances and compliance requirements in facilities management.
  • Excellent communication skills for diverse audiences and formal presentations.
  • Ability to work in a hybrid role and travel between local sites.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain a visible presence at operations sites to ensure safety and compliance.
  • Drive facilities operations service delivery to meet critical uptime standards.
  • Oversee and optimize the budget and resources for local facilities operations.
  • Act as the primary liaison for local market teams to resolve operational issues.
  • Govern onsite vendors and oversee service contracts, ensuring performance meets expectations.
  • Implement local facility dashboards and reporting workflows to analyze site performance.

Benefits

  • Eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus program.
  • Participation in an equity incentive plan.
  • Access to a generous company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.
Full Job Description
In this hybrid role, you will report to a Environment, Health and Safety Manager.

You will:
  • Provide Tactical Site Oversight: Maintain a highly-visible presence across Waymo's critical operations sites in the assigned market to ensure facilities run smoothly 24/7/365, and the physical environment remains safe, functional, compliant, and mission-ready.
  • Ensure Service Delivery & Critical Uptime: Drive end-to-end facilities operations service delivery across the assigned market, ensuring high standards of execution that meet critical uptime SLAs.
  • Manage Budget & Resource Optimization: Oversee and optimize the local facilities budget, operational resources, and space utilization within the assigned market, ensuring that daily maintenance and space utilization adjustments do not disrupt business-critical operations.
  • Serve as the Local Stakeholder POC: Act as the primary local facilities liaison and build strong partnerships with local market teams (including Fleet Operations, Security, and EHS) and site leads to resolve daily operational friction and align facilities with business needs.
  • Govern Onsite Vendors & Service Contracts: Provide direct, "on-the-ground" governance and oversight of the contracted Integrated Facilities Management (IFM) service provider, monitoring performance against SLAs and scorecards to immediately correct service gaps.
  • Support Process & Operational Reporting: Implement and manage local facility dashboards and reporting workflows to analyze site performance data, measure key success metrics, and support high-volume site operations and space utilization.

You have:
  • BA/BS degree in a related field such as Facilities Management, Business Management, or Engineering (or equivalent practical experience).
  • 10+ years of account management, outsourcing management, or facilities operations experience with a track record of managing multi-site portfolios at an L6/manager level.
  • Demonstrated experience managing complex budgets, service delivery contracts, and third-party vendor performance.
  • Deep understanding of technological advances, change management, organizational leadership, and compliance requirements, and how each supports/drives workplace and facilities strategies.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present in formal settings and adapt communication to articulate program goals to a wide audience in a simple, straightforward way.
  • Ability to work in a hybrid schedule in the assigned market location and travel between multiple local site locations within the market area.

We prefer:
  • Certification or Industry Designation in Project Management, Engineering, or Facilities Services (e.g., CFM, FMP, CPM, PMP).
  • Experience in high-velocity logistics, automotive, tech-manufacturing, or mixed-use environments (office, industrial, labs, and depots), effectively balancing facilities needs between corporate environments and operational/testing sites.
  • Experience operating within highly vendorized facilities environments, with a focus on establishing scalable and nimble service strategies.
  • Strong business acumen and experience collaborating with a diverse set of local site leads, business units, and partners (Legal, Finance, Sourcing, Security).
  • Familiarity with the assigned market, including local real estate trends, regulatory environment, and regional vendor networks.
  • Demonstrable project management skills, with the ability to advance projects with undefined scope, influence stakeholders, and align cross-functional teams.

Travel Requirements:
  • This role is expected to travel approximately 20%


The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.

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

Salary Range

$152,000-$187,000 USD

About Waymo

Waymo LLC is a self-driving technology development company. It is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google. Waymo develops autonomous driving technology and provides ride-hailing services through its Waymo One program. The company has been testing its self-driving technology on public roads since 2009 and has logged millions of miles of autonomous driving. Waymo has partnerships with several automakers and has been working on developing autonomous trucks for use in logistics.
Learn more about Waymo
Size
2,000 employees
Industry
Founded
2009

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