Senior Technical Program Manager

Overview

In this Technical Program Manager role at Wayve you will translate ambiguous goals into clear, coordinated plans and drive end-to-end, multi-team delivery. You will partner with engineering, research and product teams to align priorities, manage dependencies, and mitigate delivery risks. You’ll help shape delivery practices, surface risks early and connect programs to strategic priorities. This is a fast-paced, impact-focused role in a mission to advance autonomous driving.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working model
• learning and development budgets
• competitive salaries benchmarked annually
• comprehensive health benefits
• paternity/maternity leave
• wellbeing partnerships

Responsibilities

• Translate ambiguous goals into clear plans, priorities and commitments across engineering and cross-functional teams
• Coordinate work across teams, manage dependencies, align around shared goals, and resolve blockers
• Anticipate risks, develop mitigations, and adapt to changing priorities to protect timelines and quality
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders, surface risks, manage expectations, and drive scope/resources decisions
• Lead retrospectives and translate lessons learned into practical improvements in collaboration and delivery
• Own complex, multi-team programs end-to-end to keep delivery predictable in a fast-moving environment
• Improve delivery efficiency by identifying bottlenecks, streamlining workflows, and strengthening tooling and resource allocation
• Connect program delivery to Wayve’s strategic priorities and make impactful scope/resource decisions
• Build and improve delivery practices to reduce risk and support evolving engineering organization

Key requirements

• 5+ years of experience leading complex, multi-team software or technology programs in fast-paced or early-stage environments
• Technically strong with comfort working with engineers on software, ML and robotics stacks (even if not coding)
• Systems thinking — understanding how parts of a complex technical system fit together
• Strong planning, prioritisation, risk and dependency management, with adaptability under changing requirements
• Objective under pressure, able to navigate competing perspectives and keep teams aligned in ambiguity
• Effective communication, surface risks early and influence without formal authority to build a positive team culture
• Product-minded with focus on outcomes and impact, not activity
• Openness to feedback and continuous improvement; mentoring teams and individuals
• Preferred: 8+ years as a Technical Program Manager
• An engineering or CS degree or engineering experience; strong Jira or similar tooling proficiency
• Experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, perception, vehicle hardware, embedded software, ML, simulation, evaluation or safety-critical domains

• ownership and decisiveness
• ability to align cross-functional teams
• clear and concise communication
• Jira or similar tooling
• modern software, machine learning and robotics stacks
• systems-thinking in complex tech environments

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