2021 Intern, People & Recruiting Operations
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to get where they’re going. Since our start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has been focused on building the World’s Most Experienced Driver in hopes of improving the world's access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. Our Waymo Driver powers Waymo One, our fully autonomous ride-hailing service, as well as Waymo Via, our trucking and local delivery service. To date, Waymo has driven over 20 million miles autonomously on public roads across 25 U.S. cities and conducted over 20 billion miles of simulation testing.
Waymo’s People Team Internship is an opportunity to apply academic knowledge to real world HR challenges, while gaining valuable professional experience and development. This role involves partnering with a wide variety of business stakeholders both within the People Team and across Waymo-wide business functions to help design, deliver and enhance a number of critical HR programs and services aimed at employee engagement and investment, with an eye towards continuous process improvement and HR operational excellence.
Waymo interns work alongside leaders in the industry on projects that deliver significant impact to the company. We believe learning is a two-way street: leveraging your knowledge while providing you with opportunities to expand your skill-set. Interns are an important part of our culture and our recruiting pipeline. Join us at Waymo for a fun and rewarding internship!
In this internship, you’ll:
- General People Service Delivery: Partner with People Operations, HR Business Partners and other key stakeholders to enable the smooth delivery of company-wide people programs and targeted initiatives inclusive of responding to employee inquiries, ad-hoc data analysis and problem resolution.
- Recruiting process operations: Provide support for the programmatic elements of our recruiting process, with a focus on identifying and improving data elements that will be used by the business and other key decision makers.
- Knowledge management: partner across the people team to support the organization and management of intranet resources accessed by employees and partner teams.
At a minimum we’d like you to have:
- Bachelor's degree
- Ability to work independently in an ambiguous work environment
- High standards for work product with strong attention to detail
It’s preferred if you have:
- Master’s degree in progress in a relevant discipline, i.e. HR, I/O Psychology, MBA
General Perks
- Help solve challenging problems with a direct impact on the company
- Competitive compensation packages with a housing/relocation bonus (if applicable)
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Fun intern events and networking opportunities
Onsite Perks (These perks will only be applicable if the internship is on site)
- Free breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks
- Free access to Google shuttles
- Onsite gym
Note: As the situation around COVID-19 remains unclear, unless otherwise stated this is going to be a remote internship position. We will accept resumes on a rolling basis until the role is filled. To be in consideration for multiple roles, you will need to apply to each one individually - please apply to the top 3 roles you are interested in.