# Lead Technical Program Manager, Quality & Compliance - Company: [Wayve]() - Location: London, United Kingdom - Team: Engineering Operations and Programs - Employment type: Full Time - Posted: September 4, 2026 ## Job description ## The role As the Lead Technical Program Manager for Quality & Compliance at Wayve, you'll build and lead the technical program management function that rolls out company-wide quality and compliance initiatives - spanning quality (including ASPICE), security, data privacy, and operational safety. This role reaches across the whole of Wayve: you'll turn complex, often heavyweight requirements into pragmatic, low-overhead processes that raise the bar without slowing the company down. You'll lead flagship initiatives yourself while supporting and coaching a small, high-impact TPM team. Your impact is measured in how effectively Wayve meets its quality and compliance obligations - and how lightly those obligations sit on the organisation. A successful TPM leader is a force multiplier - helping teams move faster, more effectively, and with purpose. ### Key Responsibilities * **Lead the function:** Build, coach, and grow a small TPM team; hire to fill gaps and raise the bar. * **Roll out company-wide compliance initiatives:** Drive programs across quality (including ASPICE), security, data privacy, and operational safety - from framework to embedded practice. * **Trusted partner across Wayve:** A leader in the org, you partner with engineering, product, safety, security, privacy / legal, and operations leaders to land outcomes and hold the bar - influencing without authority at every level. * **Make process simple and low-overhead:** Design pragmatic, lightweight processes that meet the bar with minimal friction; negotiate must-haves vs nice-to-haves and find creative ways to meet long-standing requirements. * **Establish scalable practices:** Governance, KPIs and dashboards, audit readiness, escalations and operational reviews. * **Align cross-functionally:** Work across every part of Wayve - and external auditors / partners where relevant; manage dependencies, risk, and trade-offs. * **Connect to outcomes and represent Quality & Compliance:** Tie delivery to compliance status, audit readiness, risk reduction, and organisational efficiency, and represent quality & compliance in company-level reviews. ## About you In order to set you up for success as a Lead Technical Program Manager, Quality & Compliance at Wayve, we're looking for the following skills and experience. **Essential** * **8+ years in quality / compliance / process programs:** Deep, hands-on experience delivering quality, compliance, or process programs as a technical program manager - ideally spanning standards such as ASPICE, ISO, security, privacy, or safety - including people and process leadership. You've built or scaled a program function and you get things done with ownership and a bias for action. * **People leadership:** You build, coach, and grow high-performing teams, and raise the bar on the craft. * **Pragmatic and creative:** You negotiate must-haves vs nice-to-haves, and find creative ways to meet requirements that have long been done a certain way - keeping process simple and low-overhead rather than adding bureaucracy. * **Exceptional communicator & influencer:** This role crosses all of Wayve; you communicate with unusual clarity and influence without authority at every level, bringing people along. * **Very good at process:** You design simple, low-overhead processes that raise quality and keep the organisation efficient. * **Stays neutral and adapts under pressure:** Effective in ambiguous, fast-moving environments; you flex your style and bring structure without slowing delivery. * **Systems thinking:** You reason about how the parts of a complex organisation and its processes fit together, and how a change in one area ripples into others. * **Product-minded:** You focus on outcomes and the people your programs serve - prioritising by impact and defining what good looks like, not just tracking activity. * **Raises the bar without the drag:** You strengthen quality and compliance while keeping the organisation efficient and fast-moving. * **Strategic & business impact:** You link quality and compliance investment to measurable outcomes - audit readiness, risk reduction, and efficiency. * **Data-informed:** You steer with the right metrics and evidence, and set direction with clarity. * **Growth mindset:** Open to feedback and always looking to improve. **Desirable** * Working knowledge of automotive / safety-critical or security / privacy standards - e.g. Automotive SPICE (ASPICE), ISO 26262, SOTIF (ISO 21448), ISO 27001, or GDPR / data privacy. * Background in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or another regulated / safety-critical domain. * An engineering or computer science degree, or experience working as an engineer. This is a full-time role based in our office in London. At Wayve we want the best of all worlds, so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, with time spent working from home. ## Apply [Apply on Wayve]() Canonical job page: