Senior Counsel - Trade

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 a Managing Counsel

You will:

• Provide legal support to various business teams on a variety of issues related to cross border shipments.
• Interact directly with customs officials and work with our Policy team to engage regulators on a variety of trade and supply chain related issues.
• Engage in cross-functional planning efforts to ensure that trade compliance and strategy are properly incorporated into the project roadmap.
• Provide legal support on a variety of supply chain regulations, including equipment certifications and forced labor diligence. 
• Develop vision, strategy, and implementation for complying with evolving and complex international trade and suppy chain regulations.

You have:

• JD degree with a strong academic record, state bar membership, and 10+ years of relevant legal experience.
• Solid background on and understanding of various cross-legal issues associated with manufacturing and shipping of goods internationally.
• Demonstrated experience in three or more of the following: import and export regulations, equipment certification and licensing, customs investigations, cross-border transactions, sanctions compliance and investigations, forced labor compliance.
• Experience with understanding cross-functional perspectives and navigating ambiguity. Ability to identify and create streamlined processes to support a growing company.
• Execution-oriented individual with strong interpersonal, communication, and team skills. Experience presenting to senior management and engineering teams.
• Eagerness to work in a startup environment and flexibly roll up your sleeves as an individual contributor to help drive our fast-paced and dynamic business within an emerging and rapidly developing industry.

We prefer:

• Over 15 years of relevant legal experience.
• Prior in-house experience working side-by-side with engineering, supply chain, logistics, partnerships, marketing, and leadership teams to spot, address, and counsel on trade compliance issues.
• Experience advising business and product teams on trade regulations, building out trade compliance programs, and developing strategies to minimize corresponding business risks.
• Experience supporting the importation of new and emerging technologies internationally.
• Experience working with legal teams and cross-functional partners located in different countries.

Travel Requirements:

• Up to 15%