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About the Role

As Director of Platform Management for Simulation, Evaluation & Validation, you will lead the overall product vision and director for the platforms that Wayve uses to develop, evaluate, and validate the AI Driver. This includes open and closed loop simulation platforms, the evaluation test platform, synthetic data production, critical event pipelines, validation, and the workflows that connect them. You will directly lead and indirectly influence sub team platform leads across Simulation, Evaluation, Data, and Validation to convert a complex set of cross-cutting initiatives into a single, opinionated product strategy.

Responsibilities

Set product vision and strategy for the platforms.
Define a multi-year, multi-quarter product strategy that takes Wayve from a collection of capable tools to a unified, opinionated platform for evaluating and validating the AI Driver.
Anchor the strategy in measurable customer outcomes — developer velocity, signal quality, cost per evaluation, time-to-insight, validation credibility.
Own the product roadmap end-to-end.
Translate company-level priorities into a coherent roadmap across simulation, evaluation, and validation initiatives.
Drive trade-offs between different internal and external customer groups.
Ensure resourcing decisions are clearly communicated to other director level stakeholders.
Manage and mentor the product managers embedded across.
Hire to fill gaps, level up the craft, and build a highly capable lean team.
Run regular user research with Autonomy, Science, Validation, Release, and Product teams.
Maintain a clear picture of what each customer segment needs from the platform, where the friction is, and which gaps are quietly bleeding velocity.
Set platform-wide standards for reliability, latency, cost per unit (per simulation, per evaluation, per enriched hour), self-service, observability, and API stability.
Treat platform regressions the way a consumer team treats a churn spike.
Lead monthly business reviews and close the loop on requests and progress reporting with the leadership team.
Lead quarterly planning, KPI reviews, and the trade-off conversations.
Help Wayve's leadership tell a credible story about how we develop and validate the AI Driver — to OEM partners, regulators, and at relevant industry forums.

Requirements

0+ years of product management experience, with at least 3–5 years leading PM teams (PMs and/or senior PMs reporting to you).
Track record building internal platforms, developer tools, or ML/AI evaluation infrastructure — products whose users are engineers and scientists, where the bar is set by power users with strong opinions and the ability to route around you if the tool isn't good enough.
Data driven. You always seek to answer questions with data and lean into defining the right customer facing KPIs indicative of success.
Systems thinking across hardware, AI, and product. You understand how decisions in one part of the stack (data, simulator fidelity, metric design) propagate into outcomes (release confidence, on-road performance, regulator trust) elsewhere.
Insight-driven leader. A record of producing the analysis or framing that changed a "go/no-go" decision on a complex AI or robotics program.
Product craft. You care about workflows, latency, errors-per-hour, and how a tool feels. You apply product management best practices to measuring user experience.
AI Fluency. You not only regularly use but are a standard bearer in the application of AI tools to the job.
Prior experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or another safety-critical AI/ML program (L2+, L4, surgical robotics, aerospace autonomy, etc.).
Familiarity with simulation, synthetic data, evaluation harnesses, or ML observability tools at production scale.
Working knowledge of SOTIF (ISO 21448), ISO 26262, or other safety standards relevant to validating learned systems.
Experience with internal developer platforms (CI/CD, ML platforms, data platforms) at scale.

Skills

Product vision
Product strategy
Roadmap ownership
Team leadership
Mentoring
User research
Platform standards definition
Operational cadences
Business reviews
KPI reviews
Trade-off analysis
External representation
Data analysis
Systems thinking
AI fluency
Simulation
Synthetic data
Evaluation harnesses
ML observability
SOTIF
ISO 26262
Internal developer platforms
CI/CD
ML platforms
Data platforms

Location

In-office

Work Type

Full-time
Hybrid

Experience Level

Director
3-5 years leading PM teams

Salary/Compensations

$332,000 to $415,000

Benefits

Competitive equity package

About the Company

Wayve is pioneering an AV2.0 approach to both the driving stack and offline development.