Lead Technical Program Manager Quality and Compliance
Wayve is a London-headquartered embodied-AI company developing and licensing mapless, vehicle-agnostic driving software for assisted, automated, and robotaxi applications.
About Wayve
Wayve Technologies Ltd. develops the Wayve AI Driver, an end-to-end, data-trained software platform that runs on onboard vehicle compute and native sensors. It is designed for OEM integration across L1 driver assistance through L4 automated driving, without HD maps.
Skills
Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will build and lead the technical program management function for quality and compliance. You will deliver company-wide quality, security, privacy, and operational-safety initiatives while designing practical, low-overhead processes. You will coach TPMs, manage audit readiness, risks, dependencies, governance, and metrics, and align stakeholders across engineering, product, safety, legal, and operations.
Requirements
- 8+ years delivering quality, compliance, or process programs as a technical program manager
- People and process leadership experience
- Experience with standards such as ASPICE, ISO, security, privacy, or safety
- Process design and compliance implementation skills
- Cross-functional communication and influence
- Systems thinking and data-informed decision-making
Responsibilities
- Build, coach, and grow a technical program management team
- Drive quality, security, data privacy, and operational-safety programs
- Design pragmatic, low-overhead compliance processes
- Establish governance, KPIs, dashboards, audit readiness practices, escalations, and operational reviews
- Align internal stakeholders and external auditors or partners
- Manage dependencies, risks, and trade-offs
- Represent quality and compliance in company-level reviews
Benefits
- Hybrid working policy with office and home working
