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About the Role
This role sits at the intersection of customer, product, and engineering, leading Wayve’s programs with OEM customers from early-stage advanced development to full-scale production. You will be the main customer-facing program lead for Wayve’s Japan-based OEM and partner activity, with a current focus on robotaxi work involving Nissan.
Responsibilities
- Lead cross-functional teams in executing complex customer programs, ensuring program objectives are achieved.
- Establish and maintain a comprehensive project management framework, including project planning, risk management, change management, and task coordination.
- Engage with customers to understand and address their technical requirements and needs.
- Collaborate with Product, TPM, R&D, and engineering teams to translate customer demands into clear, actionable technical requirements.
- Work with internal development teams to align customer requirements with internal milestone planning and execution.
- Run progress reporting, stakeholder communication, and meeting cadence, externally with customers and internally, in both Japanese and English.
- Filter and structure customer requests so the wider organization can focus on what is most important and executable.
- Provide first-level support to customers, ensuring their needs are met promptly and effectively.
Requirements
- Fluent Japanese and English, with the ability to lead high-stakes external discussions in both languages.
- Strong program management experience, ideally more than 5 years or at senior individual contributor level, in complex automotive software development.
- Direct experience working with Japanese OEMs, automotive companies, or tier-1 suppliers.
- Proven customer-facing stakeholder management experience, not just internal program delivery.
- Strong ownership and the ability to operate effectively in ambiguity.
- Robust technical expertise, with comprehensive knowledge of the automotive industry and software development, and some robotics, autonomy, or AI-related experience.
- Proficiency with program management tools (e.g., Jira).
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
- Willingness to travel as needed.
Skills
- Program management
- Risk management
- Change management
- Task coordination
- Customer requirement translation
- Stakeholder communication
- Technical expertise in automotive software development
- Robotics
- Autonomy
- AI
- Jira
- Communication
- Interpersonal skills
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Generative AI
- AV 2.0
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Python
- C++
- Rust
Location
- London
- Sunnyvale
- Yokohama
- Herzliya
- Vancouver
- Leonberg
Work Type
- Hybrid working model
Experience Level
- More than 5 years
- Senior individual contributor level
Education Level
- Master’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science
Salary/Compensations
- Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
Benefits
- Meaningful equity
- Relocation support
- Visa sponsorship
- Hybrid working
- Core hours
- Chance to work hands-on in vehicle workshops and labs
- Learning and development budgets
- Support for training, conferences and growth
- Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension where applicable, access to therapists, wellbeing partnerships, team socials and more
About the Company
- Wayve is building the leading AI platform for autonomous driving.
- Pioneering an end-to-end AI approach that enables vehicles to learn directly from real-world experience, developing the ability to adapt, generalize and improve at scale.
- The AI Driver learns to drive by understanding the world around it, navigating complex urban environments with intelligence, precision, and natural flow.
- Autonomy represents a once-in-a-generation transformation in how people and goods move.
- Ambition is to make autonomy universal.
- Mapless and hardware-agnostic AI platform integrates with global OEM partners, enabling continuous software evolution and unlocking advanced levels of automation from L2+ through to L4 as the core AI model scales.
- Distinct approach by combining embodied AI with scalable deployment, creating technology that can be shaped to each OEM brand and driver experience, accelerating the transition to a safer, more intelligent future of mobility.
Equal Opportunity
- Wayve is committed to creating a diverse, fair and respectful culture that is inclusive of everyone based on their unique skills and perspectives, and regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law.