Senior Program Lead, Autonomous Vehicle Lifecycle

Wayve; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Health insurance

Dental

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

Pension

Wellbeing support

Team socials

Training budget

Zusammenfassung

Wayve in London is hiring a Senior Product Lifecycle Manager to connect product milestones with detailed technical plans and readiness evidence across Level 2 and Level 4 products. You’ll lead multi-team programmes, translating milestones into credible, integrated plans and driving alignment across engineering, product, safety and validation.

You’ll collaborate with stakeholders to manage dependencies, assess risks, and maintain lifecycle artifacts, ensuring timely delivery while balancing

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years of experience leading complex, multi-team technical or product programmes across engineering teams.
• Strong background in the automotive or autonomous-vehicle industry.
• Technical depth to work with engineers and challenge delivery plans constructively.
• Programme-management qualification such as PMP, CAPM or PRINCE2 would be a plus.

Aufgaben

• Partner with engineering and product leads to translate product milestones into integrated cross-team schedules, priorities and delivery plans.
• Review technical progress, backlog health, dependencies and system-level evidence to determine whether programmes are ready to move forward.
• Identify technical risks and sequencing bottlenecks early, then drive the decisions and mitigation plans needed to protect delivery.
• Facilitate difficult conversations around scope, resources and competing priorities, helping teams reach clear and practical decisions.
• Adapt plans quickly as technical understanding, product priorities or delivery constraints change.
• Communicate programme status, schedule changes, risks and decisions clearly and proactively across technical teams and senior stakeholders.

Kenntnisse

Cross-functional leadership

Systems thinking

Delivery planning

Stakeholder management

Communication

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Jobbeschreibung

Wayve in London is hiring a Senior Product Lifecycle Manager to connect product milestones with detailed technical plans and readiness evidence across Level 2 and Level 4 products. You’ll lead multi-team programmes, translating milestones into credible, integrated plans and driving alignment across engineering, product, safety and validation.

You’ll collaborate with stakeholders to manage dependencies, assess risks, and maintain lifecycle artifacts, ensuring timely delivery while balancing