Lead Technical Program Manager (Data)

Join Wayve as the Lead Technical Program Manager for Data. In this role, you will build and lead the technical program management function for our Data organization, driving the delivery of critical data initiatives that fuel our AI Driver. You will partner with data leadership, engineering leaders, and cross-functional teams to ensure the success of our data roadmap. This is a high-impact position that requires strong leadership, strategic thinking, and a deep understanding of data and machine learning.

• Lead and manage the technical program management function for the Data organization, overseeing data platform, ingestion, standardization pipelines, and enrichment processes.
• Partner with Data leadership on planning, prioritization, and execution across the data roadmap, ensuring alignment with department-wide objectives.
• Drive flagship programs directly, establishing scalable practices for planning cadences, governance, KPIs, and operational reviews.
• In order to set you up for success as a Lead Technical Program Manager, Data at Wayve, we're looking for the following skills and experience. (The first four are our must-haves.)
• Clear, data-driven communicator: You set direction with clarity and steer with the right metrics
• Solid understanding of Machine Learning, GPUs and training and inference of 500M-20B parameter models
• Proficient with AI Agents to accelerate execution: eg. Cursor, Claude, Codex
• Strategic & business impact: You link data investment to measurable outcomes - quality, throughput, cost
• Proficient with some or all of Databricks, Flyte, Ray, Kubernetes, Azure, Docker, Python
• Exceptional cross-functional leadership: You align and influence across data, ML, and engineering without relying on authority
• Growth mindset: Open to feedback and always looking to improve
• Systems thinking: You reason about how the parts of a complex data system fit together, and how a change in one area ripples into others
• People leadership: You build, coach, and grow high-performing teams, and raise the bar on the craft
• Stays neutral and adapts under pressure: Effective in ambiguous, fast-moving environments; you flex your style and bring structure without slowing delivery
• 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
• Experience with data ingestion from raw data to processing through different stages and pipelines. Understands Directed Acyclic Graphs, their usage and challenges
• Technically strong: Credible with engineers on data platforms, pipelines, and large-scale data infrastructure, even though you won't write production code. Experience with distributed data platforms at Petabyte scale
• 8+ years in data: Deep, hands-on experience delivering data programs as a technical program manager - data platform, pipelines, enrichment / curation, labelling - 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
• Working experience with a large scale distributed data platform used by 100s of engineers and researchers
• Background in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or another large-scale data / ML program
• An engineering or computer science degree, or experience working as an engineer; fluent with modern delivery tooling (e.g. Jira)
• We understand that everyone has a unique set of skills and experiences and that not everyone will meet all of the requirements listed above. If you’re passionate about self-driving cars and think you have what it takes to make a positive impact on the world, we encourage you to apply