Lead Technical Program Manager, Wayve

• In order to set you up for success as a Lead Technical Program Manager, Data at Wayve, we're looking for the following skills and experience. (The first four are our must-haves.)
• 8+ years in data: Deep, hands-on experience delivering data programs as a technical program manager - data platform, pipelines, enrichment / curation, labelling - 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
• Technically strong: Credible with engineers on data platforms, pipelines, and large-scale data infrastructure, even though you won't write production code. Experience with distributed data platforms at Petabyte scale
• Experience with data ingestion from raw data to processing through different stages and pipelines. Understands Directed Acyclic Graphs, their usage and challenges
• Solid understanding of Machine Learning, GPUs and training and inference of 500M-20B parameter models
• Proficient with some or all of Databricks, Flyte, Ray, Kubernetes, Azure, Docker, Python
• Proficient with AI Agents to accelerate execution: eg. Cursor, Claude, Codex
• 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 data system 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
• Exceptional cross-functional leadership: You align and influence across data, ML, and engineering without relying on authority
• Strategic & business impact: You link data investment to measurable outcomes - quality, throughput, cost
• Clear, data-driven communicator: You set direction with clarity and steer with the right metrics
• Growth mindset: Open to feedback and always looking to improve

Desirable

• As the Lead Technical Program Manager for Data at Wayve, you'll build and lead the technical program management function for our Data org - the data platform, ingestion, standardisation pipelines, and the enrichment, curation, and labelling that fuel the AI Driver
• The data corpus is also critical for teams working on simulation and validation
• You'll be the delivery partner to engineering leadership for data teams and drive the department wide objective to “make valuable data immediately and reliably usable”
• You will leading flagship programs yourself while supporting and coaching a small, high-impact TPM team
• Your impact is measured in data quality, throughput, cost, and how predictably the data that powers every model lands
• A successful TPM leader is a force multiplier - helping teams move faster, more effectively, and with purpose
• Lead the function: Build, coach, and grow a small TPM team; hire to fill gaps and raise the bar
• Own data delivery: Partner with Data leadership on planning, prioritisation, and execution across the data roadmap
• Trusted partner for Engineering: You are a leader in the org. You will maintain the partnership with Engineering leaders to land big outcomes, pushing teams to land impact with high leverage and hold leaders to account
• Drive flagship programs directly: Data platform, data pipelines, enrichment & curation, labelling / annotation, and dataset management and quality
• Establish scalable practices: Planning cadences, governance, KPIs and dashboards, escalations and operational reviews
• Align cross-functionally: Work with data, ML, engineering, and external data / annotation suppliers; manage dependencies, risk, and trade-offs
• Connect to outcomes and represent the data org: Tie delivery to data quality, throughput, cost, and time-to-insight, and represent the data org in company-level reviews