Fleet Operations Training Lead - US & Japan

Wayve; Sacramento (CA); Hybride; USD 100 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Meaningful equity

Learning and development budget

Comprehensive benefits

Résumé du poste

Wayve seeks a Fleet Operations Training Lead for the US and Japan to build and deliver scalable training across Fleet Operations. You will design onboarding, safety, and professional development programs, and align them with regional requirements while expanding to new geographies.

You will partner with operations leaders, develop competency frameworks, and implement evaluation metrics to ensure safe, effective performance. Strong focus on train-the-trainer and learning technologies.

Qualifications

• Develop onboarding, technical, safety, and professional-development training.
• Build competency frameworks and certification programs.
• Collaborate with leaders to assess skills and prioritize training.
• Evaluate training effectiveness using metrics and feedback.
• Scale training programs across multiple regions and languages.

Responsabilités

• Develop comprehensive training strategy and roadmap for Fleet Operations US and Japan.
• Design and update onboarding, technical, safety, and professional development programs.
• Partner with leaders to identify capability gaps and training priorities.
• Deliver instructor-led, virtual, practical, and blended learning experiences.
• Establish training standards and adapt content for local languages and regulations.
• Create learning paths, competency frameworks, and certifications.
• Define measures: participation, knowledge retention, time to competency.
• Use data to continually improve training content and outcomes.
• Develop train-the-trainer programs and support local trainers.
• Maintain records of training, competency, and certification.

Connaissances

Training strategy

Instruction design

Stakeholder collaboration

Performance analytics

Train-the-trainer

Cross-functional leadership

Outils

LMS

Description du poste

Before the detail, here's the challenge you'd help us solve.

We build the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future. Very few people in AI can say this. Every role here, whatever the team, plugs into that.

About our Fleet Operations Teams

As the Fleet Operations Training Lead for the US and Japan, you will lead the development, delivery, and continuous improvement of training across our Fleet Operations teams. You will ensure that team members have the knowledge, practical skills, and confidence required to operate safely, consistently, and effectively.

Working closely with Fleet Operations, Safety, Engineering, People, and other teams across the business, you will identify capability gaps and translate complex operational and technical information into engaging, practical learning experiences. You will establish consistent training standards across both regions while adapting programs to reflect local operational, cultural, language, and regulatory requirements.

We’re looking for someone who is organised, collaborative, and passionate about developing others: a pragmatic leader who is comfortable working in a fast-moving, safety-focused environment and can balance immediate training needs with a longer-term strategy. As our Fleet Operations function grows, you will develop scalable training programs and processes that can support additional geographies in the future.

Your day-to-day

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive training strategy and roadmap for Fleet Operations in the US and Japan, aligned with organisational priorities, operational requirements, and future geographical expansion
• Design, implement, and regularly update onboarding, technical, safety, compliance, and professional-development programs for Fleet Operations teams
• Partner with Fleet Operations leaders and subject-matter experts to assess skills, identify capability gaps, and prioritise training requirements
• Deliver engaging instructor-led, virtual, practical, and blended learning experiences for employees with different levels of experience and technical knowledge
• Establish consistent training and competency standards while adapting content and delivery to local languages, cultures, regulations, and operational environments
• Create structured learning paths, practical assessments, competency frameworks, and certification programs that ensure employees are prepared to perform their roles safely and effectively
• Define and monitor measures such as participation, knowledge retention, practical proficiency, time to competency, learner feedback, and operational performance
• Use performance data, employee feedback, incident trends, and operational insights to continually improve training content, methods, and outcomes
• Develop and manage train-the-trainer programs, supporting local trainers and Fleet Operations leaders to deliver learning consistently and effectively
• Use learning technologies to make training accessible, scalable, and engaging, while maintaining accurate records of training, competency, and certification
• Work closely with Fleet Operations, Safety, Engineering, People, and other stakeholders to ensure training reflects current technology, processes, risks, and business priorities
• Support the introduction of new technologies, vehicles, processes, policies, and programmes through structured training and change-readiness activities
• Champion continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and professional development across Fleet Operations

What you’ll be working on

• Developing and delivering onboarding, technical, safety, and professional-development training
• Building and maintaining competency frameworks, learning paths, and certification programs
• Collaborating cross-functionally to ensure training keeps pace with operational and technological change
• Evaluating training effectiveness using participation, performance, and feedback metrics
• Running train-the-trainer initiatives and supporting local training delivery
• Continuously iterating on training content, standards, and processes, making improvements based on data and feedback
• Supporting operational change by creating learning experiences for new tools, vehicles, and systems

Desirable

• Experience establishing or scaling training programs across multiple countries or geographical regions
• Experience adapting training for different languages, cultures, regulatory requirements, and operational contexts
• Familiarity with learning-management systems, digital learning tools, and virtual or blended learning approaches
• Experience developing train-the-trainer programs or leading a distributed network of trainers
• Familiarity with advanced driver-assistance systems, including sensors and onboard hardware and firmware
• Experience in fleet operations, particularly data collection and closed-loop testing of ADAS functions
• Experience working within the automotive, autonomous-vehicle, robotics, AI, mobility, or another safety-critical industry
• Japanese-language capability or previous experience working closely with teams in Japan
• Experience working in a fast-moving technology company or startup

The reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $100,000 to $130,000, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.

More About Wayve

Wayve is building the leading AI platform for autonomous driving. We are pioneering an end to end AI approach that enables vehicles to learn directly from real world experience, developing the ability to adapt, generalise and improve at scale. Instead of relying on hand coded rules or pre mapped environments, our AI Driver learns to drive by understanding the world around it. The result is technology that navigates complex urban environments with intelligence, precision and natural flow, unlocking meaningful advances in both safety and efficiency. We believe autonomy represents a once in a generation transformation in how people and goods move, comparable to the shift from horses to cars, and from human driven vehicles to intelligent machines.

Our ambition is to make autonomy universal. Wayve’s mapless and hardware agnostic AI platform integrates with global OEM partners, enabling continuous software evolution and unlocking advanced levels of automation from L2 plus through to L4 as our core AI model scales. In a race increasingly defined by intelligence and real world learning, Wayve is taking a distinct approach, building a generalisable driving intelligence that can power any vehicle, anywhere. By combining embodied AI with scalable deployment, we are creating technology that can be shaped to each OEM brand and driver experience, accelerating the transition to a safer, more intelligent future of mobility.

Locations & Flexible Working

Our main hubs are in London, Sunnyvale, Yokohama, Herzliya, Vancouver and Leonberg.

We operate a hybrid working model that combines in-person collaboration in our dedicated office spaces with focused time working remotely. This gives our teams the connection and energy of working together, alongside the flexibility to do their best work in a way that fits their lives.

The Interview Process

• Initial call / recruiter screen (30 mins)
• Competency Interviews [2 hours total]
• Deep-dive technical interviews [3 hours total]
• Final interview: mission & values alignment [1 hour]

What’s in it for you (Location dependant)

• Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
• Meaningful equity, sharing in the ownership and long term success of Wayve
• Learning and development budgets with support for training, conferences and growth
• Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension where applicable, access to therapists, wellbeing partnerships, team socials and more

A quick, honest note before you apply.

Wayve is not a mature, fully-structured place with the playbook already written. Much of how we work is still being written, and if you join, you’ll help write it. That suits people who want real ownership more than people who need a settled structure from day one.

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.

For more information visit Careers at Wayve. To learn more about what drives us, visit Values at Wayve.

DISCLAIMER: We will not ask about marriage or pregnancy, care responsibilities or disabilities in any of our job adverts or interviews. However, we do look to capture information about care responsibilities, disabilities among other diversity information as part of an optional DEI Monitoring form to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring process and ensure that the process is inclusive and non-discriminatory.