Global Head of AV Driver Training

Wayve; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salaries benchmarked against market

Meaningful equity

Relocation support

Hybrid working

Learning and development budgets

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Wayve is seeking a senior leader to build and run a global training function for its autonomous driving operations. You will design scalable curricula, onboarding and certification programs, and own the training standards across regions.

You will lead a globally distributed team, drive data‑driven improvements, and ensure readiness and safety before road deployment, collaborating with Operations, Product and Safety to meet evolving business needs.

Qualifications

• Significant leadership experience in training, capability development, or operations enablement.
• Experience building scalable curricula, onboarding and certification frameworks.
• Track record of data-driven performance improvement and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a globally distributed team of Regional Training Leads and Training Coordinators.
• Define and improve global training architecture, curricula, onboarding and certification frameworks.
• Own training strategy across geographies, ensuring compliance and effective delivery.
• Translate insights and product changes into rapid training updates.
• Establish metrics and reporting for training effectiveness and readiness.
• Ensure operators meet performance and safety thresholds prior to live deployment.
• Partner with Operations, Product and Safety to align training with business needs.

Skills

Leadership

Training strategy

Curriculum design

Analytics

Cross-functional

Tools

BI tooling

Data pipelines

Job description

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.

Here’s what this particular role covers.

About our Operations Enablement Teams

Our Operations Enablement teams design and implement the systems that ensure Wayve’s on‑road workforce—Vehicle Safety Operators and their support teams—are trained, certified, and developed to the highest global standards. Spanning the UK, US, Germany, and Japan, this team translates a unified global approach into regionally relevant and compliant operations. We drive excellence and consistency by building the structures that turn real‑world insights into impactful and rapid upskilling for all operators, always with a clear focus on safety, readiness, and continuous improvement.

Your day-to-day

• Lead and develop a globally distributed team of Regional Training Leads and Training Coordinators.
• Define and continuously improve the global training architecture, including scalable curricula, onboarding pathways, and certification frameworks for all operational roles.
• Own and update training strategy and standards across all operational geographies, ensuring local compliance and effective delivery.
• Maintain the mechanism for converting operational insights, safety findings, and product changes into rapid training updates.
• Establish, monitor, and report on key metrics that prove training effectiveness, readiness, and adherence—using this data to prioritise interventions.
• Serve as the final gatekeeper to ensure operators meet all performance and safety thresholds prior to live on‑road deployment.
• Partner with Operations, Product, and Safety teams to ensure training aligns with business and operational needs.
• Manage global certification and compliance record‑keeping, ensuring audit‑readiness across all regions.
• Balance the need for a consistent global standard with regional flexibility to meet regulatory and market contexts.

What you’ll be working on

• Building a global training strategy, standard, and operating model that supports operational excellence.
• Designing, deploying, and maintaining curricula, onboarding, and certification frameworks for both on‑road and maintenance roles.
• Implementing mechanisms for feedback‑driven and product‑driven training updates.
• Establishing and owning the reporting infrastructure for training effectiveness, operator readiness, and compliance.
• Developing and coaching your global team to consistently deliver against high standards while adapting to regional needs.
• Ensuring operational readiness and safety for new operator cohorts prior to road deployment.
• Driving cross‑functional alignment with Operations, Product, and Safety stakeholders.
• Managing certification and compliance records to rigorous global standards.

You should apply if

• You have significant leadership experience in training, capability development, operations enablement, or workforce readiness—ideally within autonomous systems, mobility, robotics, aviation, defence, logistics, or other safety‑critical domains.
• You've built and led structured training programmes across multiple sites, regions, or countries.
• You have demonstrated success designing scalable onboarding, certification, and recurrent training frameworks for operational roles.
• You can translate operational, product, or safety requirements into practical training content, standards, and readiness criteria.
• You have a strong track record of data‑driven performance and quality improvement.
• You thrive working cross‑functionally to align training with business needs.
• You have experience leading managers or senior individual contributors and setting direction for a globally distributed function.
• You're analytical and comfortable working with data pipelines to drive insights, metrics, and reporting.

Desirable

• Experience in autonomous vehicles, transport, robotics, logistics, aviation, or defence.
• Familiarity with certification, compliance record‑keeping, and audit requirements for regulated or safety‑critical environments.
• Experience managing both contractors and full‑time employees, including through transitions to FTE.

This is a full‑time role based in our London or Sunnyvale offices, Monday to Friday, with responsibility for a division that operates seven days a week and occasional on‑call duties.

Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! If you’re passionate about autonomy and keen to learn, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every requirement.

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.

How we work - 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

Our process is clear and respectful of your time:

• 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 total)

We’ll always explain the format and work around your availability.

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
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
• Hybrid working, core hours and the chance to work hands on in vehicle workshops and labs
• 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.

If that sounds like the kind of problem you want to spend your time on, we’d really like to hear from you.

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.

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