Technical Program Manager, Data Operations

• Be the delivery engine behind Wayve's data and annotation operations, turning a high-variance pipeline of requests into predictable, high-quality delivery. • Own requests end-to-end — intake, definition, estimation, scheduling, execution, and QA — working across data science, ML, engineering, and external annotation suppliers. • Act as a force multiplier, helping teams move faster, more effectively, and with purpose.

• Have approximately 3+ years in program, delivery, or operations coordination such as TPM, project/program coordinator, or similar, with a bias for action and reliable delivery within a defined scope. • Have strong stakeholder management skills and comfort with ambiguity, creating clarity from underspecified asks and staying neutral and constructive when priorities compete. • Be technically fluent enough to coordinate, comfortable working with engineers and data science/ML and reasoning about data and pipelines. • Bring structure without slowing things down through proactive risk and issue management, escalating early with clear options. • Be a clear, frequent communicator keeping many parties aligned with timely, tailored updates. • Be collaborative, influencing without authority and building trust across teams and suppliers. • Have a growth mindset, open to feedback and always improving how the work gets done. • Think in systems, reasoning about how parts of a complex system fit together and how changes ripple across areas. • Be product-minded, focusing on outcomes and the people programmes serve rather than just tracking activity.

• Have experience in data operations, annotation/labelling workflows, or external vendor/supplier management. • Be comfortable with Jira or similar and with workflow automation. • Have exposure to ML/data pipelines, autonomy, or robotics.

• Understand each ask, confirm it is complete, align on the goal and success criteria, and identify missing inputs before work starts. • Coordinate estimation with engineering and data science/ML, facilitate trade-offs, and push back on unrealistic asks. • Structure and sequence tickets and coordinate external suppliers to set annotation work up for success. • Keep work moving with clear status updates, risk and issue tracking, blocker removal, a visible path to green, and well-aligned escalations across internal teams and partners. • Onboard, support, and troubleshoot Wayve's internal self-serve users across the whole annotation tool chain. • Own day-to-day coordination with external annotation suppliers including onboarding, label guides, task launch, QA, and delivery tracking. • Improve intake, ticketing, and reporting including automation, while owning the judgement, negotiation, and unblocking that cannot be automated.

Wayve is one of the most exciting AI companies in the UK right now. They are tackling one of the hardest problems in technology, teaching machines to drive, and they are doing it with an approach that the rest of the industry is now converging towards. Backed by SoftBank, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Uber, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, and Stellantis, Wayve has raised $2.8 billion in total funding and reached a valuation of $8.6 billion. With over 1,000 employees across London, Silicon Valley, Vancouver, Leonberg, Herzliya, and Tokyo, Wayve is scaling fast while keeping its London HQ at the centre. What stands out on Glassdoor (4.4/5 from 112+ reviews) is how consistently employees praise the culture, the calibre of colleagues, and the quality of the technical work. People describe it as some of the most interesting work of their careers. Wayve also offers an on-site chef, private healthcare, competitive pay with equity, and a genuine learning environment where you work alongside world-class ML researchers and engineers. That said, some reviews flag that the pace can be intense and that working across global time zones can stretch working hours. If you are an engineer, researcher, or operator who wants to work on genuinely frontier technology with real-world impact, and you thrive in fast-paced, mission-driven environments, Wayve is a rare opportunity.

• Work in a hybrid model from Wayve's London office. • Join a well-funded company backed by leading investors, founded in 2017 and pushing the boundaries of embodied AI. • Work in an inclusive environment that values diversity and embraces new perspectives.

Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Its advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems. Wayve's intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving.