Technical Program Manager

Join Wayve as a Technical Program Manager, where you'll lead complex, cross-functional programs across our engineering organization. You'll turn ambiguity into clear plans, drive efficiency, manage risk, and align execution with business goals. Your impact will be measured by your ability to deliver programs and help teams move faster and more effectively.

• Drive project delivery by owning the project lifecycle and improving delivery outcomes through structured execution and coordination.
• Boost efficiency by identifying bottlenecks, streamlining workflows, and improving tooling and resource allocation to increase throughput.
• Enable cross-team collaboration by improving alignment across teams through effective communication, shared goals, and faster decisions.
• We're looking for the following skills and experience. (The first three are our must-haves.)
• Collaborative leader: You bring people together, influence without authority, and create a positive team culture
• Strategic thinking & problem-solving: You keep the bigger picture in mind, stay calm under pressure, and find creative solutions
• Strong project management: Skilled at planning, prioritising, managing risk and dependencies, and adapting as things change
• Bias for action / program delivery: 5+ years leading complex, multi-team software or technology programs in fast-paced or early-stage environments. You get things done
• 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
• Technically strong: Comfortable working with engineers and reasoning about modern software, ML, and robotics stacks, even if you don't write code
• Clear communicator: You explain complex ideas simply, surface risk early, listen well, and keep teams aligned
• Stays neutral and adapts under pressure: Effective in high-tension, ambiguous situations; you flex your style to keep people aligned and moving
• Systems thinking: You reason about how the parts of a complex system fit together, and how a change in one area ripples into others
• Growth mindset: Open to feedback and always looking to improve
• Ideally 8+ years as a Technical Program Manager
• An engineering or computer science degree, or experience working as an engineer; excels in Jira (or similar)
• Exposure to autonomous vehicles, robotics, ML, simulation / evaluation, or other safety-critical or compute-heavy domains