At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead quality and compliance initiatives across the company while coaching a high-impact team.
- Company: Wayve, a pioneering tech firm in autonomous vehicles.
- Benefits: Hybrid working policy, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Join a dynamic team focused on innovation and efficiency.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on quality and compliance in a fast-paced environment.
- Qualifications: 8+ years in quality/compliance with strong leadership and communication skills.
The predicted salary is between 75600 - 92400 £ per year.
The role
As the Lead Technical Program Manager for Quality & Compliance at Wayve, you'll build and lead the technical program management function that rolls out company-wide quality and compliance initiatives - spanning quality (including ASPICE), security, data privacy, and operational safety.
This role reaches across the whole of
Wayve: you'll turn complex, often heavyweight requirements into pragmatic, low-overhead processes that raise the bar without slowing the company down.
You'll lead flagship initiatives yourself while supporting and coaching a small, high-impact TPM team.
Your impact is measured in how effectively Wayve meets its quality and compliance obligations - and how lightly those obligations sit on the organisation.
A successful TPM leader is a force multiplier - helping teams move faster, more effectively, and with purpose.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the function: Build, coach, and grow a small TPM team; hire to fill gaps and raise the bar.
- Roll out company-wide compliance initiatives: Drive programs across quality (including ASPICE), security, data privacy, and operational safety - from framework to embedded practice.
- Trusted partner across
Wayve: A leader in the org, you partner with engineering, product, safety, security, privacy / legal, and operations leaders to land outcomes and hold the bar - influencing without authority at every level.
- Make process simple and low-overhead: Design pragmatic, lightweight processes that meet the bar with minimal friction; negotiate must-haves vs nice-to-haves and find creative ways to meet long-standing requirements.
- Establish scalable practices: Governance, KPIs and dashboards, audit readiness, escalations and operational reviews.
- Align cross-functionally: Work across every part of Wayve - and external auditors / partners where relevant; manage dependencies, risk, and trade-offs.
- Connect to outcomes and represent Quality & Compliance: Tie delivery to compliance status, audit readiness, risk reduction, and organisational efficiency, and represent quality & compliance in company-level reviews.
About you
In order to set you up for success as a Lead Technical Program Manager, Quality & Compliance at Wayve, we're looking for the following skills and experience.
Essential
- 8+ years in quality / compliance / process programs: Deep, hands‑on experience delivering quality, compliance, or process programs as a technical program manager - ideally spanning standards such as ASPICE, ISO, security, privacy, or safety - including people and process leadership.
You've built or scaled a program function and you get things done with ownership and a bias for action.
- People leadership: You build, coach, and grow high‑performing teams, and raise the bar on the craft.
- Pragmatic and creative: You negotiate must‑haves vs nice‑to‑haves, and find creative ways to meet requirements that have long been done a certain way - keeping process simple and low‑overhead rather than adding bureaucracy.
- Exceptional communicator & influencer: This role crosses all of Wayve; you communicate with unusual clarity and influence without authority at every level, bringing people along.
- Very good at process: You design simple, low‑overhead processes that raise quality and keep the organisation efficient.
- Stays neutral and adapts under pressure: Effective in ambiguous, fast‑moving environments; you flex your style and bring structure without slowing delivery.
- Systems thinking: You reason about how the parts of a complex organisation and its processes fit together, and how a change in one area ripples into others.
- Product‑minded: You focus on outcomes and the people your programs serve - prioritising by impact and defining what good looks like, not just tracking activity.
- Raises the bar without the drag: You strengthen quality and compliance while keeping the organisation efficient and fast‑moving.
- Strategic & business impact: You link quality and compliance investment to measurable outcomes - audit readiness, risk reduction, and efficiency.
- Data‑informed: You steer with the right metrics and evidence, and set direction with clarity.
- Growth mindset: Open to feedback and always looking to improve.
Desirable
- Working knowledge of automotive / safety‑critical or security / privacy standards - e. g.
Automotive SPICE (ASPICE), ISO 26262, SOTIF (ISO 21448), ISO 27001, or GDPR / data privacy.
- Background in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or another regulated / safety‑critical domain.
- An engineering or computer science degree, or experience working as an engineer.
This is a full‑time role based in our office in London.
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.
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Lead Technical Program Manager, Quality & Compliance employer: wayve
Wayve is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic and inclusive work culture that fosters innovation and collaboration. With a focus on employee growth, you will have the opportunity to work alongside talented AI engineers in a hybrid environment, contributing to groundbreaking advancements in autonomous driving while enjoying the vibrant atmosphere of London. Join us to make a meaningful impact in the field of AI and data science.
