Global Head of AV Driver Training

Wayve; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayve, based in London, seeks a Global Head of AV Driver Training to own the strategy, standards, and operating model for training Vehicle Safety Operators and related teams across theUK, US, Germany, and Japan. You will build scalable curricula and certification pathways, and prove training improves readiness, consistency, and safety.

You’ll lead a small, globally distributed team, translating a single global standard into regionally effective training.

Qualifications

• Significant leadership experience in training or capability development, ideally within a safety-critical environment.
• Proven ability to build and lead structured training programmes across multiple sites, regions, or countries.
• Experience designing scalable onboarding, certification, and recurrent training frameworks for operational roles.
• Ability translating operational, product, or safety requirements into practical training content, standards, and readiness criteria.
• Strong analytics to improve behaviour, consistency, and execution quality using training data.
• Experience partnering with Operations, Product, Safety and other senior stakeholders to align training outcomes with business needs.

Responsibilities

• Own global training strategy, standards, and operating model across all geographies.
• Define the training architecture: scalable curricula, onboarding pathways, and certification frameworks for on-road and maintenance operational roles.
• Own operational readiness — ensuring operators meet performance and safety thresholds before live on-road deployment.
• Build and maintain the mechanism for converting product requirements and operational insights into rapid, targeted training updates.
• Establish and own the metrics and reporting that prove training effectiveness, readiness, and adherence — and use that data to prioritise interventions.
• Manage and develop Regional Training Leads, holding them accountable to a consistent global standard while enabling local adaptation.
• Partner cross-functionally with Operations, Product, and Safety to align training outcomes with business and operational needs.
• Own certification and compliance record-keeping standards globally, ensuring accuracy and audit-readiness.
• Balance global standardisation with the flexibility to adapt delivery to regional, regulatory, and market context.

Skills

Leadership

Training programme design

Cross-functional collaboration

Safety-critical readiness

Data-driven decision making

Job description

About us

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.

Make Wayve the experience that defines your career!

The role

As Global Head of AV Driver Training, you'll own the strategy, standards, and operating model for how Wayve trains, certifies, and develops its on-road operational workforce — Vehicle Safety Operators and the teams that support them — across the UK, US, Germany, and Japan. This is a build role: you're accountable for defining the training architecture, building scalable curricula and certification pathways, and proving with data that training is improving readiness, consistency, and safety.

You'll lead a small, globally distributed team of Regional Training Leads and Training Coordinators, translating a single global standard into training that works in each region's operational reality. You'll own the mechanism that turns operational insights, safety findings, and product changes into rapid training updates, and you're the person accountable for whether operators are truly ready before they're deployed on the road.

Key responsibilities:

• Own global training strategy, standards, and operating model across all geographies.
• Define the training architecture: scalable curricula, onboarding pathways, and certification frameworks for on-road and maintenance operational roles.
• Own operational readiness — ensuring operators meet performance and safety thresholds before live on-road deployment.
• Build and maintain the mechanism for converting product requirements and operational insights into rapid, targeted training updates.
• Establish and own the metrics and reporting that prove training effectiveness, readiness, and adherence — and use that data to prioritise interventions.
• Manage and develop Regional Training Leads, holding them accountable to a consistent global standard while enabling local adaptation.
• Partner cross-functionally with Operations, Product, and Safety to align training outcomes with business and operational needs.
• Own certification and compliance record-keeping standards globally, ensuring accuracy and audit-readiness.
• Balance global standardisation with the flexibility to adapt delivery to regional, regulatory, and market context.

About you

You’ll thrive in this role if you’ve built or scaled a training or capability-development function in a safety-critical, operational environment, and you want to own it globally from here.

Essential:

• Significant leadership experience in training, capability development, operations enablement, or workforce readiness, ideally within autonomous systems, mobility, robotics, aviation, defence, logistics, or another safety-critical environment.
• Proven experience building and leading structured training programmes across multiple sites, regions, or countries.
• Demonstrated success designing scalable onboarding, certification, and recurrent training frameworks for operational roles.
• Experience translating operational, product, or safety requirements into practical training content, standards, and readiness criteria.
• Strong track record using performance data, assessments, and operational insight to improve behaviour, consistency, and execution quality.
• Experience working cross-functionally with Operations, Product, Safety, and other senior stakeholders to align training outcomes with business needs.
• Experience leading managers or senior individual contributors, and setting direction for a globally distributed function.
• Strong analytical capability — comfortable working with training and performance data pipelines to identify trends and gaps, and converting insight into metrics, dashboards, and reporting.

Desirable:

• Experience in autonomous vehicles, transport, robotics, logistics, aviation, or defense.
• Familiarity with certification, compliance record-keeping, and audit requirements in a regulated or safety-critical environment.
• Experience managing a mixed workforce of contractors and full-time employees through a transition to FTE.

This is a full-time role based in our office in London or Sunnyvale. This role is Monday to Friday, overseeing a division that operates seven days a week. It will include on-call responsibilities at times.

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.

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.

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