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About the Role
As a Technical Program Manager in Data Operations at Wayve, you will be the delivery engine for data and annotation operations, transforming a high-variance pipeline of requests into predictable, high-quality delivery. You will own requests end-to-end, working across data science, ML, engineering, and external annotation suppliers. This role requires high-judgment coordination to ensure data work is delivered reliably and to create clarity and unblock progress across multiple stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Understand each ask, confirm it's complete, align on the goal and success criteria, and identify missing inputs before work starts.
- Coordinate estimation with engineering and data science / ML, facilitate trade-offs, and push back on unrealistic asks.
- Structure and sequence tickets, and coordinate external suppliers to set annotation work up for success.
- Keep work moving with clear status updates, risk and issue tracking, blocker removal, a visible "path to green," and well-aligned escalations across internal teams and partners.
- Onboard, support, and troubleshoot Wayve's internal self-serve users across the whole annotation tool chain.
- Own day-to-day coordination with external annotation suppliers - onboarding, label guides, task launch, QA, and delivery tracking.
- Improve intake, ticketing, and reporting (including automation) - while owning the judgment, negotiation, and unblocking that can't be automated.
Requirements
- Approximately 3+ years in program, delivery, or operations coordination (TPM, project / program coordinator, or similar).
- Ability to get things done and deliver reliably within a defined scope.
- Strong stakeholder management and comfort with ambiguity; ability to create clarity from underspecified asks and stay neutral and constructive when priorities compete.
- Technically fluent enough to coordinate with engineers and data science / ML and reason about data and pipelines.
- Proactive risk and issue management; ability to escalate early with clear options.
- Ability to keep many parties aligned with timely, tailored updates.
- Ability to influence without authority and build trust across teams and suppliers.
- Open to feedback and always improving how the work gets done.
- Ability to reason about how the parts of a complex system fit together, and how a change in one area ripples into others.
- Focus on outcomes and the people your programs serve - prioritizing by impact and defining what good looks like, not just tracking activity.
- Experience in data operations, annotation / labelling workflows, or external vendor / supplier management is desirable.
- Comfortable with Jira (or similar) and with workflow automation is desirable.
- Exposure to ML / data pipelines, autonomy, or robotics is desirable.
Skills
- Program coordination
- Delivery coordination
- Operations coordination
- Stakeholder management
- Ambiguity tolerance
- Technical fluency
- Risk management
- Issue management
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Growth mindset
- Systems thinking
- Product-mindedness
- Jira
- Workflow automation
Location
- London
- Leonberg
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Mid-level
About the Company
- At Wayve we want the best of all worlds, so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, with time spent working from home.