Lead Technical Program Manager (Quality & Compliance)

Join Wayve as the Lead Technical Program Manager for Quality & Compliance. In this role, you will build and lead the technical program management function, driving company-wide quality and compliance initiatives. You will work across all departments, design low-overhead processes, and establish scalable practices. You will also lead a small TPM team and represent quality and compliance in company-level reviews.

• Diriger et développer la fonction de gestion de programme technique, en construisant et en dirigeant une petite équipe de TPM.
• Mettre en œuvre des initiatives de conformité à l'échelle de l'entreprise, en pilotant des programmes dans les domaines de la qualité, de la sécurité, de la confidentialité des données et de la sécurité opérationnelle.
• Agir en tant que partenaire de confiance au sein de l'organisation, en collaborant avec les équipes d'ingénierie, de produit, de sécurité, de confidentialité et d'opérations pour atteindre les résultats.

• 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
• Very good at process: You design simple, low-overhead processes that raise quality and keep the organisation efficient
• Exceptional communicator & influencer: This role crosses all of Wayve; you communicate with unusual clarity and influence without authority at every level, bringing people along
• Raises the bar without the drag: You strengthen quality and compliance while keeping the organisation efficient and fast-moving
• Stays neutral and adapts under pressure: Effective in ambiguous, fast-moving environments; you flex your style and bring structure without slowing delivery
• People leadership: You build, coach, and grow high-performing teams, and raise the bar on the craft
• 8+ years in quality / compliance / process programs: Deep, hands-on experience delivering quality, compliance, or process programs as a technical program manager - ideally spanning standards such as ASPICE, ISO, security, privacy, or safety - including people and process leadership. You've built or scaled a program function and you get things done with ownership and a bias for action
• Pragmatic and creative: You negotiate must-haves vs nice-to-haves, and find creative ways to meet requirements that have long been done a certain way - keeping process simple and low-overhead rather than adding bureaucracy
• Data-informed: You steer with the right metrics and evidence, and set direction with clarity
• Strategic & business impact: You link quality and compliance investment to measurable outcomes - audit readiness, risk reduction, and efficiency
• Systems thinking: You reason about how the parts of a complex organisation and its processes fit together, and how a change in one area ripples into others
• Growth mindset: Open to feedback and always looking to improve
• An engineering or computer science degree, or experience working as an engineer
• Background in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or another regulated / safety-critical domain
• Working knowledge of automotive / safety-critical or security / privacy standards - e.g. Automotive SPICE (ASPICE), ISO 26262, SOTIF (ISO 21448), ISO 27001, or GDPR / data privacy