# Head of Industrial Design at Waymo

- Company: Waymo
- What the company does: Waymo—formerly the Google self-driving car project—makes it safe and easy for people & things to get around with autonomous vehicles. Take a ride now. Backed by Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://waymo.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Mountain View, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-08
- Apply by: 2026-10-23
- Apply: https://careers.withwaymo.com/jobs?gh_jid=8140602
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/waymo-head-of-industrial-design/

## About the role

This role follows a hybrid work schedule and you will report to a Head of Design and Consumer Research

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design, Transportation Design, or Automotive Design
- 15+ years of industrial design experience, including 8+ years leading automotive design programs or OEM vehicle studio teams
- Proven track record of delivering production vehicle programs or complex automotive exterior and interior platforms from concept to volume manufacturing
- Deep technical mastery of automotive packaging, Class-A surfacing, CMF processes, and vehicle safety or regulatory compliance
- Demonstrated experience presenting design strategy and technical trade-offs to executive leadership and cross-functional engineering leads
- Strong leadership background with experience managing, mentoring, and scaling multi-disciplinary design teams

Tags: Industrial Design (78N)