Principal Director Technical Program Management Driver Out
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
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own the multi-year Driver Out program from the first driver-out demonstration through public-road product integration and initial scaling. You will build and lead a TPM organisation, define milestones, manage critical dependencies and risks, coordinate safety evidence, and report readiness and major decisions to executives.
Requirements
- 10+ years delivering complex multi-year technical programs
- Director-level program leadership and team-building experience
- Autonomous vehicle or safety-critical robotics experience
- Knowledge of safety cases, behaviour validation, ISO 26262, SOTIF, and safety management systems
- Technical knowledge of autonomy, machine learning, vehicle hardware, vehicle software, and systems
- Senior cross-functional leadership and executive communication skills
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the Driver Out program plan and milestones
- Build, coach, and grow the TPM team
- Manage dependencies, risks, and trade-offs across program workstreams
- Coordinate the safety case, behaviour validation, functional safety, SOTIF, cybersecurity, and safety management system
- Align engineering, science, safety, product, operations, OEMs, and Uber
- Establish governance, launch-readiness reviews, KPIs, dashboards, escalations, and risk-budget management
- Report progress, risk, and readiness to the executive team
Benefits
- Hybrid working policy with office and home working