Product Designer in London

Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems. Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving. In our fast-paced environment big problems ignite us—we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future. At Wayve, your contributions matter. We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; we back each other to deliver impact.

We’re looking for a Product Designer to shape digital in-vehicle experiences for our development and demonstration fleet. Your work will span tools used by trained vehicle operators during testing and validation, alongside guest-facing interfaces that help a wide range of people understand and experience Wayve’s enriched ADAS and automated-driving technology. You’ll help us explore new ways for people to understand and interact with autonomous driving technology. You’ll own defined product features from discovery through to delivery, combining user insight, interaction design and strong visual design. You’ll think beyond the screen, considering how visual interfaces, sound, haptics and lighting can work together to make complex technology clear, intuitive and accessible. You’ll work within a supportive, experienced design environment, partnering closely with Product, Engineering and Operations.

Key responsibilities

• Conduct research, observation and usability testing with operators, guests and customers.
• Turn user needs, complex technology and operational requirements into clear journeys, workflows and interactions.
• Apply inclusive and accessible design principles, considering a broad range of needs, abilities and contexts of use.
• Design interactions across visual interfaces, sound, haptics and lighting, considering how they work together as one experience.
• Create user flows, wireframes, prototypes and polished production-ready designs.
• Define interaction states, edge cases and feedback in sufficient detail for implementation.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to balance user needs, product goals and technical constraints.
• Review implementation, resolve design issues and help maintain a high quality bar in the finished experience.
• Contribute reusable interaction and visual patterns across Wayve’s vehicle-related products.

About you

For this role, we’re looking for the following skills and experience.

Essential

• A portfolio demonstrating strong interaction and visual/UI craft, including the ability to make complex information and interactions clear without losing important detail.
• An understanding of inclusive and accessible design, and how different needs and contexts can shape an experience.
• Strong wireframing and prototyping skills, with the ability to choose the right level of fidelity for the problem.
• Curiosity and sound judgement: you’re comfortable questioning assumptions, exploring different approaches and working through ambiguity and constraints.
• Clear communication and the ability to explain the thinking behind your design decisions.
• Experience owning product problems through discovery, design, validation and delivery.
• Experience planning and conducting user research or usability testing and applying what you learn.
• Experience collaborating closely with product managers and engineers throughout product development.

Desirable

• Experience designing interfaces that connect people with complex, real-time or physical systems.
• Experience working with constrained environments, where factors such as hardware, safety, attention or context place limits on interaction design.
• Experience designing operational tools, real-time interfaces or products used by people with widely differing levels of technical knowledge.
• Experience using generative AI and coding tools to explore ideas, build prototypes or contribute directly to implementation.
• Automotive experience, such as designing in-vehicle interfaces, working with Android Auto or understanding market-specific guidance such as JAMA, is useful but not required.

As part of the interview process, we’ll ask you to provide examples of your work that demonstrate strong interaction and visual design across digital products or interactive experiences. This is a full-time role based in our office in London, UK. 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. Wayve is committed to creating an inclusive interview experience. If you require any accommodations or adjustments to participate fully in our interview process, please let us know. We understand that everyone has a unique set of skills and experiences and that not everyone will meet all of the requirements listed above. If you’re passionate about self-driving cars and think you have what it takes to make a positive impact on the world, we encourage you to apply. At Wayve we're 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.