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Wayve is building embodied AI technology for autonomous driving. As Lead Technical Program Manager for Quality & Compliance, you will build and lead a small, high-impact TPM team rolling out quality and compliance initiatives across the company—spanning quality (ASPICE), security, data privacy, and operational safety.
Your responsibilities include:
- Leading, coaching, and growing a small TPM team, with hiring authority and performance management responsibility
- Driving flagship quality and compliance initiatives while supporting your team to deliver across Wayve
- Partnering with engineering, product, safety, security, privacy/legal, and operations leaders, influencing without formal authority at every level
- Translating complex requirements into simple, practical processes; negotiating must-haves versus nice-to-haves
- Managing dependencies, risks, and trade-offs in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment
- Using metrics and evidence to steer delivery, communicate progress, and represent quality and compliance in company-level reviews
- Rolling out company-wide quality and compliance initiatives from framework to embedded practice
- Establishing governance, KPIs, dashboards, audit readiness, escalations, and operational reviews that create clarity without unnecessary bureaucracy
- Designing lightweight processes that work across teams and make compliance part of how Wayve operates
- Connecting quality and compliance investment to measurable outcomes: audit readiness, risk reduction, and organizational efficiency
Wayve operates a hybrid model with main hubs in London, Sunnyvale, Yokohama, Herzliya, Vancouver, and Leonberg. The company combines in-person collaboration with focused remote work time.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8+ years of hands-on experience delivering quality, compliance, or process programs as a technical program manager, alongside people and process leadership
- Proven track record building or scaling a program function with a strong bias for action
- Direct experience managing, coaching, and growing high-performing teams, including performance management responsibility
- Pragmatic and creative approach: ability to distinguish must-haves from nice-to-haves and find simpler ways to meet complex requirements
- Exceptional communication and influencing skills across functions and levels, even without formal authority
- Skilled at designing simple, low-overhead processes and thinking through organizational impact
- Ability to stay neutral and adapt under pressure, bringing structure to ambiguity without slowing delivery
- Product-minded and data-informed, prioritizing by impact and linking programs to business outcomes
- Open to feedback and committed to continuous improvement
Helpful but not essential: experience with automotive, safety-critical, security, or privacy standards (ASPICE, ISO 26262, SOTIF/ISO 21448, ISO 27001, GDPR); background in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or other regulated domains; engineering or computer science degree or prior engineering experience.
