Lead Technical Program Manager, Quality & Compliance

Before the detail, here's the challenge you'd help us solve.

We build the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future. Very few people in AI can say this. Every role here, whatever the team, plugs into that.

Here’s what this particular role covers.
About us
Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems.
Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving.

In our fast-paced environment big problems ignite us—we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future.

🛠️ About our Technical Program Management Teams
Our Technical Program Management team helps Wayve deliver complex, cross-functional initiatives with clarity and purpose. As our Lead Technical Program Manager for Quality & Compliance, you’ll build and lead a small, high-impact TPM team that rolls out quality and compliance initiatives across the company — spanning quality (including ASPICE), security, data privacy and operational safety. You’ll help us meet heavyweight requirements through pragmatic, low-overhead processes that raise the bar without slowing teams down.

🧠 Your day-to-day

• Lead, coach and grow a small TPM team, hiring to fill gaps and raising the bar on program delivery.

• Drive flagship quality and compliance initiatives yourself while supporting your team to deliver across Wayve.

• Partner with engineering, product, safety, security, privacy / legal and operations leaders, influencing without authority at every level.

• Turn complex requirements into simple, practical processes; negotiate must-haves versus nice-to-haves and find creative ways to meet long-standing obligations.

• Manage dependencies, risks and trade-offs, adapting your approach in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment.

• Use metrics and evidence to steer delivery, communicate progress and represent quality and compliance in company-level reviews.

🧩 What you’ll be working on:

• Rolling out company-wide quality and compliance initiatives — including ASPICE, security, data privacy and operational safety — from framework to embedded practice.

• Building a scalable TPM function that combines strong people leadership with hands-on delivery.

• Establishing governance, KPIs, dashboards, audit readiness, escalations and operational reviews that create clarity without unnecessary bureaucracy.

• Designing lightweight processes that work across teams and make compliance part of how Wayve operates.

• Connecting quality and compliance investment to measurable outcomes: audit readiness, risk reduction and organisational efficiency.

🙌 You should apply if:

• You bring 8+ years of hands-on experience delivering quality, compliance or process programs as a technical program manager, alongside people and process leadership. You’ve built or scaled a program function and have a strong bias for action.

• You’ve directly managed, coached and grown high-performing teams, including responsibility for performance management.

• You’re pragmatic and creative: you can distinguish must-haves from nice-to-haves and find simpler ways to meet complex requirements.

• You’re an exceptional communicator and influencer who brings people along across functions and levels, even without formal authority.

• You’re skilled at designing simple, low-overhead processes and thinking through how changes affect the wider organisation.

• You stay neutral and adapt under pressure, bringing structure to ambiguity without slowing delivery.

• You’re product-minded and data-informed, prioritising by impact and linking programs to business outcomes rather than activity alone.

• You’re open to feedback and continually looking for ways to improve.

Experience with automotive, safety-critical, security or privacy standards — such as ASPICE, ISO 26262, SOTIF (ISO 21448), ISO 27001 or GDPR — would be helpful, but isn’t essential. A background in autonomous vehicles, robotics or another regulated domain, and an engineering or computer science degree or experience working as an engineer, would also be valuable.
🌱 Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! If you’re passionate about autonomy and keen to learn, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every requirement.…

Source: Arbeitnow (https://www.arbeitnow.co.uk/jobs/companies/wayve/lead-technical-program-manager-quality-compliance-london-united-kingdom-259958)