About the Role

Job Title: Technical Program Manager, Software
Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Software

Role Overview
As a Technical Program Manager working with our Software organization, you will be responsible for ensuring our core development teams can efficiently develop and ship the world’s first AV2.0 Driver. You will work closely with Wayve’s Engineering and Program leaders to enable our multi-disciplinary research and development teams to build and iterate quickly.

Key Responsibilities

• Engineering Infrastructure: Build and maintain the platforms and tooling required to train and validate ML models at scale.
• Onboard Systems: Manage hardware bring-up and management; platform for inference and control; remote system management.
• Embodied AI Development: Feature development for commercial autonomy products.
• Evaluation and Validation: Workflows for fast experimentation, evaluation, and reliable production delivery.

This Means You Will

• Drive the end-to-end planning, execution, and delivery of software programs, ensuring adherence to project timelines, budget, and quality standards.
• Collaborate with program managers, product managers, software engineers, and other teams to define clear program requirements, scope, and success criteria.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, identifying dependencies, risks, and mitigation strategies.
• Drive effective communication and coordination among team members and stakeholders to ensure project progress, risks, and issues are properly addressed.
• Track project milestones and deliverables, providing regular updates to senior management and key stakeholders.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration, ensuring clarity, alignment, and synergy among different teams.
• Identify and resolve project-related issues and risks, proactively addressing any obstacles to project success.
• Lead regular program reviews and provide status updates to relevant stakeholders, addressing any program-related issues, risks, and challenges.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, leveraging lessons learned from previous programs to enhance future project execution.

About You
Essential Skills and Experience

• Proven experience as a Technical Program Manager or similar role, working closely with multi-disciplinary engineering teams to successfully develop and ship products at an early stage of maturity.
• Strong technical background, with a solid understanding of software and systems engineering principles and technologies.
• Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and methodologies, with a track record of leading software programs using agile or iterative approaches.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities, with a detail-oriented mindset.
• Exceptional project management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks, manage resources effectively, and deliver results within tight deadlines.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of building strong relationships with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Energy from enabling and coaching others.
• Bias for action and thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, adapting quickly to changing priorities.
• Deep curiosity about building something new and relish the idea of helping to define AV2.0.

Working Environment
This is a full-time role based in our office in London. Wayve operates a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships, and learning, along with time spent working from home.

We encourage applications from individuals who are passionate about self-driving cars and believe they can make a positive impact on the world, even if they do not meet all listed requirements.