• The Program Manager, Innovation is a strategic partner to the Senior Director for Innovation • providing a mix of program management, execution, creative co-creation, and administrative support • Manage project administration through tasks such as subgrant drafting, supporting compliance oversight, and contract review • Assist in the identification and adoption of new technologies • Manage the day-to-day operations of the innovation pipeline and execute professional communications to key stakeholders • Lead small facilitation opportunities, such as breakout groups or specific project workgroups

• Lead and coordinate cross-functional projects, operational initiatives, and leadership action items. • Track project timelines, deliverables, dependencies, and risks to ensure successful execution. • Create and maintain project plans, status updates, dashboards, and meeting follow-ups. • Drive accountability across stakeholders by monitoring progress and ensuring deadlines are met. • Support organizational planning activities, offsites, leadership meetings, and operational cadences. • Identify opportunities to improve processes, streamline workflows, and increase team efficiency. • Assist with special projects, strategic initiatives, and business operations support as needed. • Manage complex executive calendars across multiple time zones and priorities. • Coordinate internal and external meetings, including agendas, logistics, materials, and follow-up actions. • Arrange domestic and international travel, including itineraries and expense management. • Support preparation for leadership presentations, communications, and executive meetings. • Act as a trusted partner to executives by anticipating needs, managing competing priorities, and helping drive execution. • Maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information with professionalism and discretion. • Partner closely with leadership teams, HR, Finance, Operations, and other cross-functional groups. • Serve as a point of coordination and communication across teams and stakeholders. • Build strong working relationships and help facilitate alignment across initiatives.

• Serve as the primary client-facing lead for day-to-day program execution and coordination with government stakeholders. • Manage delivery of program management support activities, including project planning, schedule management, risk and issue tracking, status reporting, and stakeholder communications. • Oversee development, maintenance, and delivery of key project artifacts, including project management plans, work breakdown structures, program schedules, risk registers, communication plans, status reports, and meeting materials. • Coordinate across project team members to ensure deliverables are accurate, timely, complete, and aligned with client expectations. • Monitor project performance against approved plans, milestones, and deliverable schedules; identify deviations and recommend corrective actions. • Lead recurring meetings, briefings, and working sessions with government and contractor stakeholders. • Support ITAM governance, policy, strategic planning, and program management activities across hardware asset management and software asset management workstreams. • Maintain visibility into program risks, issues, dependencies, action items, and decision points. • Ensure project documentation is organized, accessible, and maintained in accordance with client requirements. • Support audit readiness, compliance reviews, data calls, and leadership reporting as needed. • Promote consistent communication, accountability, and transparency across the project team.

• Own end-to-end planning and delivery of network build outs (scope, schedule, budget, quality) across Waymo sites, offices, and data centers. • Translate business/engineering requirements into Engineering Design Plans (EDPs), technical project plans, key milestones, and clear RACI across network engineers, construction teams, low voltage cables, and network integrators. • Manage vendors and contracts (RFPs, SOWs, SLAs), coordinate site work, and track hardware/circuit orders to meet delivery timelines. • Ensure compliance and standards (security, redundancy, capacity, engineering documentation), and keep sources of truth updated. • Report status and KPIs to leadership; run cross-functional rituals, budgets/forecasts, and drive continuous improvement for repeatable scale.