Global Head of AV Driver Training

Wayve; London (KY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayve in London or Sunnyvale is seeking a Global Head of AV Driver Training to own the strategy, standards, and operating model for how the company trains, certifies, and develops its on-road safety workforce—from Vehicle Safety Operators to the teams that support them.

You will build scalable curricula, define certification pathways, and prove with data that training improves readiness, safety, and performance across geographies.

Qualifications

• Significant leadership experience in training, capability development, operations enablement, or workforce readiness in a safety-critical environment.
• Proven ability to design and scale training programmes across multiple sites, regions, or countries.
• Experience translating operational, product, or safety requirements into practical training content, standards, and readiness criteria.

Responsibilities

• Own global training strategy, standards, and operating model across all geographies.
• Define 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 rapid training updates from product changes and safety insights.
• Establish and own metrics and reporting to prove training effectiveness and readiness - prioritise interventions.
• Manage and develop Regional Training Leads, ensuring global consistency with local adaptability.

Skills

Leadership experience

Training program design

Operational readiness

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven decision making

Safety-critical environment

Global management

Job description

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.

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