Operations Manager, Wayve
Autonomous mobility driven by AI
Open for applications
Autonomous mobility driven by AI
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To reimagine autonomous mobility through embodied intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- You remain calm and controlled in a pressured environment
- You take on board feedback and learn from your mistakes, employing a growth mindset to the way you develop yourself
- You enjoy working with people, thriving in a team environment
- You know how to manage your wellbeing including fatigue, stress and have personal, proven strategies to do this
- Proven experience as a team coordinator or similar role
- Strong leadership and communication skills in a 1:1 capacity, downwards to your team, and upwards and laterally with your other stakeholders
- Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Proficiency in Google Workspace or Microsoft Office suite
What the job involves
- The Remote Operations Manager is a pivotal layer of management in Germany Fleet Operations, responsible for ensuring that remote operations are conducted with the highest levels of safety and efficiency.
- They play a crucial role in fostering an inclusive working environment where Vehicle Safety Officers (VSOs) feel their ideas are valued and can voice safety concerns without fear. This role is vital, and candidates must possess exceptional skills and qualifications
- As a Remote Operations Manager, you will be responsible for managing a team of VSO’s to ensure that they are trained, motivated, and performing their roles safely and achieving operational hours
- Leadership and Supervision: Lead a team of Vehicle Safety Operators during a shift, providing guidance, support, and direction to ensure tasks are completed efficiently and effectively
- Operational Management: Oversee the day-to-day operations within the shift, ensuring they meet the company's standards and goals. This includes managing work schedules, assigning tasks, and monitoring performance
- Performance management: Line manage a group of Vehicle Safety Operators who will operate across a rostered shift pattern, ensuring that you have face-to-face, documented contact with each member at least on a monthly basis
- Safety and Compliance: Ensure all operations comply with company policies and legal regulations. Promote a safe work environment by enforcing safety protocols
- Quality Control: Monitor the quality of on-road testing during a shift to ensure they meet the required standards. Address any issues or discrepancies and highlight them to the Quality Assurance team
- Problem Solving: Identify operational problems and challenges. Develop and implement practical solutions to overcome these issues, ensuring minimal disruption to the operations
- Communication: Serve as the primary point of contact for the operations team during the shift. Communicate effectively with team members, management, and other departments to ensure a cohesive operation
- Reporting and Documentation: Prepare and submit reports on shift activities, including performance metrics, incident reports, and any deviations from the standard operating procedures
- Incident Management: Provide the initial point of contact for an on-road incident and initial ‘Operations Officer’ as per the company Major Incident Management Plan
- Training and Development: Coordinate individual and collective training and development events with the Quality Assurance team
- Continuous Improvement: Continuously seek ways to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness. Implement process improvements and best practices
- In order to set you up for success as a Remote Operations Manager at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience
- The Remote Operations Manager will be expected to travel away from Leonberg for approximately 75% of the time. Ideally there will be 2 weeks away, 1 week at home structure to the role, but that will undoubtedly change depending on the geographical and operational expectations that may arise
Our take
Wayve is developing artificial intelligence (AI) that teaches cars to drive autonomously using reinforcement learning, simulation, and computer vision. Wayve’s core premise is that the big breakthrough in self-driving cars will come from better AI brains rather than more sensors or “hand-coded” rules which it believes are highly restrictive and not at all scalable.
The company said that it trains its autonomous driving system using simulated environments and then transfers that knowledge into the real world, where it emulates how humans adapt to conditions in real time. It ultimately relies on end-to-end deep learning AI rather than hard-engineered AI. This is one of the world's hardest problems to solve, but Wayve has made an exciting start and is taking a very different approach to competitors like Uber and Waymo, who are relying more on sensors.
Following a few years of innovative breakthroughs, Wayve now has backing from high-profile investors such as Microsoft and angels, including Uber's chief scientist Zoubin Ghahramani and Pieter Abbeel, a UC Berkeley robotics professor and pioneer of deep reinforcement learning. The company's strategic partnerships with outfits like Asda and Ocado to test-run autonomous deliveries, as well as publicity through the Minister is a show of confidence in the future of Wayve's solution to autonomous driving.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2024
$1.1bn
SERIES C
Jan 2022
$200m
SERIES B
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- Learning budget
- In-house chef
- Flexible Working
- Private health insurance and therapy
- Workplace nursery scheme
- Onsite bar
- Large social budgets
- Enhanced parental leave
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Alex Kendall
(CEO)Has a PhD from Cambridge in Computer Vision & Robotics. Previously Research Engineer at Skydio and Advisor to Scape Technologies
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