About the Role
In this pivotal role as a Product Feature Owner, you will take end-to-end responsibility for specific ADAS functionalities. Your focus will be to ensure these features meet customer (OEM) requirements, align with internal capabilities and roadmaps, and are delivered to spec. You will collaborate closely with OEMs, product teams, and engineering teams to define feature scope, set performance targets, and ensure compliance with industry standards. Your dedication to aligning customer needs with our strategic vision will directly enhance our vehicles’ capabilities and user experience.
Responsibilities
- Take full accountability for specific ADAS features, ensuring on-time delivery and alignment with agreed-upon specifications.
- Monitor the feature’s lifecycle from concept to production, addressing any deviations promptly.
- Collaborate with feature group owners and engineering teams to create feature specifications.
- Engage actively with the teams throughout feature development, providing early feedback, participating in testing, and supporting validation processes.
- Deeply understand OEM customer needs and requirements, representing their interests internally without compromising Wayve’s objectives.
- Harmonise OEM requests across different customers to maximise the development of reusable assets and ensure scalability.
- Serve as the central liaison between OEMs, product teams, and engineering teams for your feature(s).
- Facilitate streamlined communication and reduce misunderstandings.
- Participate in agile processes and rituals.
- Proactively identify and address potential issues before they escalate.
- Maintain and evolve the strategic feature roadmap as our technology progresses towards higher autonomy levels, ensuring alignment with both customer expectations and Wayve’s strategic objectives.
Requirements
- Expertise in specifying and facilitating ADAS feature delivery from concept to production, such as TFL, High Beam Assist, Blind Spot Monitoring, Rear Cross & Front Cross Traffic Alert, Pre-Safe, Door Open Warning, Perception for HMI, etc.
- Experience with automotive processes, including requirements management, V-model, ASPICE, quality, and validation.
- Strong ability to understand and represent OEM customer needs, negotiate requirements, and align expectations between customers and internal teams.
- Technical understanding of ADAS features, capable of engaging in discussions about trade-offs and feasibility, and actively involved in testing, evaluation, and validation processes.
- Demonstrated success in delivering complete ADAS features into large-scale production automotive programs.
- Good understanding of automotive quality and safety standards (ASPICE, SOTIF, FuSa, …) as well as the compliance regime around them (GSR-II, DCAS, …)
- Experience with machine learning, LLMs and recent generative AI methods and architectures
- Ability to effectively bridge technical and business perspectives, ensuring clear communication and alignment across teams and stakeholders.
- A proactive approach to exploring and developing new ADAS features, keeping Wayve at the forefront of technological advancement in the industry.
Skills
- ADAS Feature Development
- Automotive Processes
- Requirements Management
- V-model
- ASPICE
- Quality
- Validation
- Customer Advocacy
- Communication Skills
- Technical Competence
- Hands-on Approach
- Shipping ADAS Features into Production
- Automotive Quality and Safety Standards
- Machine Learning
- LLMs
- Generative AI Methods and Architectures
- Collaboration Skills
- Innovative
- Forward-thinking
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Experience with ADAS Feature Development
- Automotive Background
- Experience Shipping ADAS Features into Production
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, and time spent working from home.
- We operate core working hours so you can determine the schedule that works best for you and your team.
