Join our People Team to recruit and support the world's best talent! Our team enables Waymo to achieve our mission by cultivating a culture and environment to unlock our employee's potential. We take our role as champions of Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity and stewards of our culture seriously.

This will be a hybrid in office role. You will report to our HR Business Partner Director and be based in Warsaw, Poland.

You will:

• Be the liaison or intermediary between employees and managers, focusing on positive employee relations to advise on policies (including compensation and benefits).
• Anticipate, assess and manage risk, by developing strategies and mitigation plans.
• Build relationships with partners at all levels.
• Oversee and improve hiring processes.
• Partner with leaders and colleagues across all departments to identify and address challenges, promoting a culture of shared responsibility.

You have:

• BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years relevant work experience, including HR experience working in tech companies in Central and Eastern Europe.
• 7+ years of experience doing full life cycle recruiting including tech companies.
• Experience with Eastern European labor laws and market compliance requirements.
• Experience advising on and supporting local disciplinary processes and organizational structures.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in both English and Polish, with a proven ability to connect with and inform individuals from diverse backgrounds and levels of understanding.
• Familiarity with general software engineering hiring profiles.
• Experience with technical terminology and concepts.
• Demonstrated experience with sourcing tools and techniques.
• Proven track record of success in sourcing and engaging passive technical candidates.
• Experience with extracting meaningful insights from data, identifying trends, and translating analysis into actionable recommendations that drive informed decision-making.
• Proven success closing candidates.
• Experience working directly with senior engineering leadership.

We prefer:

• Balanced experience working in a startup and established global company environments in growth mode with high recruiting volume.
• Local expertise (Poland market) to be able to provide expert local advice if and when needed.
• Proven ability to build consensus and achieve mutually beneficial outcomes through collaborative negotiation.
• Work cross-functionally and collaboratively across teams and act as a trusted advisor to leadership at all levels.
• Demonstrated experience influencing through relationships, expertise and data and can manage a complex set of partners.
• Demonstrated comfort level with switching between complex strategy discussions and tactical level work; balance of tailoring solutions and standardization.
• Prior experience with Greenhouse ATS.
• Prior experience with GEM CRM.

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