Director of Driver-Out TPM: Autonomous Vehicle Programs

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Sunnyvale (CA)

On-site

USD 260,000 - 380,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Job summary

Wayve is seeking a Director of Technical Program Management for Driver Out in Sunnyvale, CA. You will own the multi-year program to operationalise Wayve's autonomy tech from driver-in to driver-out, overseeing safety, systems, and delivery foundations.

You will lead the TPM organization, partner with OEMs and partners, and drive risk, milestones, and readiness across multiple workstreams. The role demands strategic influence, program governance, and the ability to turn complex safety-critical

Responsibilities

Own the Driver Out program end-to-end: Define and drive the multi-year plan and milestones - from the first driver-out demonstration to public-road product integration and minimal scaling - from concept to operation.
Lead the program org: Build, coach, and grow the TPM team across the program; set the operating model and hold workstream leads to account.
Drive the critical path: Turn a complex set of "must be true" conditions into a sequenced plan; own dependencies, risk, and trade-offs across every workstream.
Own the safety-critical spine: Bring the safety case, behaviour validation, functional safety (ISO 26262), SOTIF (ISO 21448), cybersecurity, and the Safety Management System together into a credible, signed-off argument for driver-out.
Partner across the company and externally: Align engineering, science, safety, product, and operations - and external partners (OEMs, Uber) - on scope, sequencing, and readiness.
Establish scalable practices: Governance, milestone and launch-readiness reviews, KPIs and dashboards, escalations, and risk-budget management.
Represent Driver Out at the top: Report progress, risk, and readiness to the executive team, and steer the biggest calls.