Technical Product Manager (Development Vehicles)

• Own the roadmap for Wayve’s development and experimentation vehicle platforms—where software, hardware, and operations meet to make rapid iteration possible. You’ll partner across engineering, program management, and internal teams to turn platform requirements into scalable capabilities that accelerate experiments, data collection, and deployments

• This is a hands-on, high-trust role focused on making smart tradeoffs and delivering platforms that enable Wayve’s priorities (and, where relevant, customer programs) to move faster and more reliably

• Own and evolve the roadmap for development & experimentation vehicle platform features

• Gather and prioritize requirements across engineering, program management, and internal customers; translate them into clear workflows, specs, and measurable success criteria

• Define and track platform product KPIs; maintain a cohesive view of current capabilities and what’s next

• Make product tradeoffs and manage stakeholder expectations across teams with competing priorities

• Reduce time-to-debug, deploy experiments, and access data by improving tooling and processes

• Drive reuse and scalability of capabilities across reference vehicles and customer programs; minimize one-off configurations

• Improve consistency between internal development environments and customer-operated workflows

Benefits

• Private healthcare: Choose our optional health insurance for comprehensive coverage for you and your family.

• Paid time off: Paid vacation plus public holidays and additional leave programs, ensuring you have time to unwind.

• Mental health resources: Through Spill, you can access therapy and mental health support.

• Community and socials: Join clubs or attend team socials to connect over hobbies, sports, or just for fun.

• Competitive compensation: Our compensation package includes cash and equity, making you a true partner in our success.

• Learning and development: Budgets for books, courses, and company-wide training to support your continuous growth.- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills; able to challenge respectfully across engineering through leadership

• Thrives in fast-paced, iterative environments with evolving priorities - brings momentum and calm to fast-moving environments without adding unnecessary process

• Scrappy, resourceful, and focused on outcomes

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field

• Strong systems thinking: can assess how platform changes impact downstream development, data, tooling, and operations

• 5+ years of experience shipping autonomy / AV features end-to-end (concept → integration → validation → release)

• 2+ years of hands-on experience with embedded platforms, with direct involvement in architecture, development, and validation

• Track record coordinating cross-functional execution across multiple teams to deliver complex, interdependent programs

• 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

• Prior experience working with external customers or partner programs, translating needs into productized workflows

• Familiarity with automotive real-time environments, AI compute platforms, and sensors

• Exposure to data feedback loops, data collection, and fleet operations in AV contexts

• Experience owning or scaling developer / operations tooling and processes in complex hardware+software environments