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Wayve is building an AI platform for autonomous driving that learns directly from real-world experience. This role leads the global training and operations enablement function, responsible for ensuring Vehicle Safety Operators and support teams across the UK, US, Germany, and Japan are trained, certified, and developed to the highest standards.
You will lead and develop a globally distributed team of Regional Training Leads and Training Coordinators. Your responsibilities include defining and continuously improving the global training architecture—including scalable curricula, onboarding pathways, and certification frameworks for all operational roles. You'll own training strategy and standards across all operational geographies, ensuring local compliance and effective delivery while maintaining a consistent global standard.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead and develop a globally distributed team of Regional Training Leads and Training Coordinators
- Define and continuously improve global training architecture, including scalable curricula, onboarding pathways, and certification frameworks
- Own and update training strategy and standards across all operational geographies, ensuring local compliance and effective delivery
- Maintain mechanisms for converting operational insights, safety findings, and product changes into rapid training updates
- Establish, monitor, and report on key metrics proving training effectiveness, readiness, and adherence
- Serve as final gatekeeper ensuring operators meet all performance and safety thresholds prior to live on-road deployment
- Partner with Operations, Product, and Safety teams to ensure training aligns with business and operational needs
- Manage global certification and compliance record-keeping, ensuring audit-readiness across all regions
- Balance consistent global standards with regional flexibility to meet regulatory and market contexts
You'll work on building a global training strategy and operating model supporting operational excellence, designing and deploying curricula and certification frameworks, implementing feedback-driven and product-driven training updates, establishing reporting infrastructure for training effectiveness and compliance, developing and coaching your global team, ensuring operational readiness and safety for new operator cohorts, driving cross-functional alignment, and managing certification and compliance records to rigorous standards.
This is a full-time role based in London or Sunnyvale offices, Monday to Friday, with responsibility for a division operating seven days a week and occasional on-call duties.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Significant leadership experience in training, capability development, operations enablement, or workforce readiness—ideally within autonomous systems, mobility, robotics, aviation, defence, logistics, or other safety-critical domains
- Demonstrated success building and leading structured training programmes across multiple sites, regions, or countries
- Proven ability designing scalable onboarding, certification, and recurrent training frameworks for operational roles
- Ability to translate operational, product, or safety requirements into practical training content, standards, and readiness criteria
- Strong track record of data-driven performance and quality improvement
- Experience leading managers or senior individual contributors and setting direction for a globally distributed function
- Analytical mindset and comfort working with data pipelines to drive insights, metrics, and reporting
- Ability to work cross-functionally to align training with business needs
DESIRABLE:
- Experience in autonomous vehicles, transport, robotics, logistics, aviation, or defense
- Familiarity with certification, compliance record-keeping, and audit requirements for regulated or safety-critical environments
- Experience managing both contractors and full-time employees, including through transitions to FTE
