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.

London, United Kingdom
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.

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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