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About the Role

This role is crucial for bridging communication and time-zone gaps between Japan and Wayve's global teams, ensuring a seamless flow of information and leading local development efforts to meet customer needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day customer interactions in Japan, building strong, trusted relationships across product, engineering, and leadership stakeholders.
• Bridge the time-zone and communication gap between Japan and Wayve's global teams, ensuring fast, clear, and accurate flow of information in both directions.
• Lead local development efforts in Japan and drive close partnership with global engineering teams, scoping, prioritizing, and shipping features and fixes that matter most to customers.
• Set the technical and product direction for the Japan-based team, growing local engineering and product capability over time as the customer base scales.
• Translate customer feedback, technical questions, and market context into actionable product requirements and clear input to the roadmap.
• Drive issue triage and resolution end-to-end, owning customer-facing communication and ensuring rapid, technically sound responses.
• Represent Wayve in customer meetings, technical reviews, and on-site visits with a credible technical voice.

Requirements

• Strong technical background (engineering, computer science, robotics, automotive, or similar) with the ability to engage credibly on deep technical topics.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in both English and Japanese, comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders.
• Proven track record in product management, technical program management, or a customer-facing technical role, ideally on complex software or hardware-software products.
• Demonstrated leadership and ability to influence without authority across cross-functional, cross-geography teams.
• High autonomy and strong ownership — comfortable operating independently from HQ, across time zones, and driving outcomes with minimal oversight.
• Experience in automotive, ADAS, autonomous driving, or other safety-critical product domains.
• Prior experience working with Japanese OEMs or Tier-1 suppliers.
• Background working across global teams (Japan ↔ Europe / US) in a startup or scale-up environment.

Skills

• Product Management
• Technical Program Management
• Customer-Facing Technical Roles
• Complex Software Products
• Hardware-Software Products
• Leadership
• Influencing
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Cross-geography Collaboration
• Autonomy
• Ownership
• Independent Operation
• Time Zone Management
• Outcome Driving
• Automotive
• ADAS
• Autonomous Driving
• Safety-Critical Products
• Japanese OEMs
• Tier-1 Suppliers
• Global Team Collaboration
• Startup Environment
• Scale-up Environment
• English Communication
• Japanese Communication
• Technical Communication
• Product Roadmapping
• Issue Triage
• Issue Resolution

Location

• Yokohama / Tokyo, Japan

Work Type

• Full-time
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Senior

Education Level

• Technical background (engineering, computer science, robotics, automotive or similar)