Technical Product Manager

wayve; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayve is seeking a Technical Product Manager to lead the roadmap for vehicle platform features and coordinate requirements across engineering, PM, and customers. You will translate needs into clear workflows, define KPI metrics, and balance tradeoffs across teams in a fast-paced, iterative environment.

The role emphasizes improving tooling, data access, and scalable workflows while coordinating across reference vehicles and customer programs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience shipping autonomy/AV features end-to-end (concept through validation and release).
• Strong systems thinking and impact assessment across platform changes and downstream data/tools/ops.
• Excellent stakeholder management and ability to influence across teams up to leadership.
• Track record coordinating cross-functional execution across multiple teams for complex programs.
• 2+ years hands-on in embedded platforms including architecture, development, and validation.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve roadmap for development and experimentation vehicle platform features.
• Gather and prioritize requirements across engineering, program management, and internal customers and translate into workflows, specs, and measurable success criteria.
• Define and track platform KPIs and maintain view of current capabilities and future plans.
• Make product tradeoffs and manage stakeholder expectations across 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, minimizing one-off configurations.
• Improve consistency between internal development environments and customer-operated workflows.

Skills

Autonomy/AV features end-to-end

Systems thinking

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional coordination

Embedded platforms hands-on

Thrives in fast-paced environments

Resourceful, outcome-focused

Automotive real-time environments

AI compute platforms

Sensors experience

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering/CS/related field

Tools

Automotive real-time environments

AI compute platforms

Sensors

Job description

Salary: £60,000 - 60,000 per year

Requirements

• We look for 5+ years of experience shipping autonomy / AV features end-to-end, from concept and integration through validation and release.
• We look for strong systems thinking and the ability to assess how platform changes affect downstream development, data, tooling, and operations.
• We look for strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, including the ability to challenge respectfully across teams up to leadership.
• We look for a track record of coordinating cross-functional execution across multiple teams to deliver complex, interdependent programs.
• We look for 2+ years of hands-on experience with embedded platforms, including direct involvement in architecture, development, and validation.
• We look for someone who thrives in fast-paced, iterative environments with evolving priorities and brings momentum and calm without unnecessary process.
• We look for a scrappy, resourceful, and outcome-focused approach.
• We look for a bachelors or masters degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• We prefer experience owning or scaling developer / operations tooling and processes in complex hardware and software environments.
• We prefer exposure to data feedback loops, data collection, and fleet operations in AV contexts.
• We prefer prior experience working with external customers or partner programs and translating needs into productized workflows.
• We prefer familiarity with automotive real-time environments, AI compute platforms, and sensors.

Responsibilities

• We own and evolve the roadmap for development and experimentation vehicle platform features.
• We gather and prioritize requirements across engineering, program management, and internal customers, then translate them into clear workflows, specs, and measurable success criteria.
• We define and track platform product KPIs and maintain a cohesive view of current capabilities and what comes next.
• We make product tradeoffs and manage stakeholder expectations across teams with competing priorities.
• We reduce time to debug, deploy experiments, and access data by improving tooling and processes.
• We drive reuse and scalability of capabilities across reference vehicles and customer programs and minimize one-off configurations.
• We improve consistency between internal development environments and customer-operated workflows.

Technologies

• AI
• Embedded
• Hardware
• Support
• Product Manager

More

We are Wayve, founded in 2017 and a leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models help vehicles perceive, understand, and navigate complex environments, improving the usability and safety of automated driving systems. Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward, and our intelligent, mapless, hardware-agnostic products are built to help automakers accelerate the transition from assisted to automated driving. We work in a fast-paced, high-trust environment where we embrace uncertainty, tackle complex challenges, and keep learning as we build for a smarter, safer future.

We value diversity, inclusion, and collaboration.

This full-time Technical Product Manager role is based in Sunnyvale, CA on a hybrid schedule.

The role offers a reasonably estimated salary range of $276,100 to $311,400 plus a competitive equity package, and we support an inclusive interview experience with accommodations available if needed.

last updated 36 week of 2026