Director of Technical Program Management (Driver Out)

Join Wayve, a leading autonomous vehicle technology company, as the Director of Technical Program Management for Driver Out. In this role, you will own the multi-year program that operationalizes Wayve's autonomy technology, leading the effort from the first driver-out demonstration to a productized, scaled service on public roads. You will partner with engineering, science, safety, product, and operations leaders, and build and lead the TPM team beneath the program. Your impact will be measured by how safely and predictably Wayve moves from driver-in to driver-out.

• Own the Driver Out program end-to-end, defining and driving the multi-year plan and milestones from concept to operation.
• Lead the program organization, building, coaching, and growing the Technical Program Management team across the program.
• Drive the critical path by turning a complex set of “must be true” conditions into a sequenced plan, owning dependencies, risk, and trade-offs across every workstream.

• Exceptional cross-functional leadership: You align and influence engineering, science, safety, product, operations, and external partners at the most senior levels, without relying on authority
• Technically strong: Credible with engineers and scientists across autonomy, ML, vehicle hardware / software, and systems, even though you won't write production code
• People leadership: You build, coach, and grow high-performing teams - and develop other leaders - and raise the bar on the craft
• Strategic & business impact: You link the program to Wayve's commercial path to market - and make the trade-offs that keep driver-out both safe and achievable
• Product-minded: You focus on outcomes and the people your programs serve - prioritising by impact and defining what good looks like, not just tracking activity
• Stays neutral and adapts under pressure: Effective in ambiguous, fast-moving environments; you flex your style and bring structure without slowing delivery
• Systems thinking: You reason about how the parts of a complex, safety-critical system fit together, and how a change in one area ripples into others
• Clear communicator: You set direction with clarity, steer with the right metrics, and communicate risk and readiness crisply to executives
• Safety-critical delivery: Fluent with safety cases, behaviour validation, functional safety (ISO 26262), SOTIF (ISO 21448), and safety management systems; you can hold a credible driver-out safety argument together across many workstreams
• 10+ years delivering complex programs, incl. director-level leadership: You've owned large, multi-year, cross-org technical programs end-to-end and built and led program-management teams. Deep ownership and a bias for action
• Growth mindset: Open to feedback and always looking to improve
• Extensive AV / robotics experience: Deep experience delivering autonomous-vehicle or comparable safety-critical robotics programs - ideally toward driver-out / L4 - with real fluency in the systems, safety, and operational realities involved
• Experience taking an AV program to eyes-off / driverless operation, or launching a comparable safety-critical service
• Familiarity with OEM and mobility-partner (e.g. ride-hail) collaboration
• Background in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or another large-scale safety-critical program
• An engineering or computer science degree, or experience working as an engineer