# Technical Program Manager - Company: [Wayve]() - Location: Sunnyvale, California USA - Team: Product & Strategy - Employment type: Full Time - Posted: August 21, 2026 ## Job description ## The role As a Technical Program Manager at Wayve, you'll lead complex, cross-functional programs across our engineering org - spanning AI, software, robotics, infrastructure, evaluation, validation, data, and product. You'll turn ambiguity into clear plans and keep multi-team delivery predictable in a fast-moving environment. Working closely with engineering and cross-functional partners, your impact will be measured by your ability to deliver programs, drive efficiency, manage risk, and align execution with business goals. A successful TPM is a force multiplier - helping teams move faster, more effectively, and with purpose. We hire TPMs across several areas - for example robotics, evaluation & validation, AI platform, and data operations - and we'll explore the best fit with you through the process. ### Key Responsibilities * **Drive project delivery:** Own the project lifecycle and improve delivery outcomes through structured execution and coordination. * **Boost efficiency:** Identify bottlenecks, streamline workflows, and improve tooling and resource allocation to increase throughput. * **Enable cross-team collaboration:** Improve alignment across teams through effective communication, shared goals, and faster decisions. * **Manage risk proactively:** Anticipate issues, develop mitigation plans, and minimise impact on timelines and quality. * **Keep stakeholders aligned:** Engage regularly with internal stakeholders, manage expectations, and deliver on commitments. * **Align with business goals:** Ensure programs directly support Wayve's strategic priorities by making smart scope and resource decisions. * **Champion continuous improvement:** Lead retros, encourage feedback, and implement changes to improve processes, team dynamics, and outcomes. ## About you We're looking for the following skills and experience. *(The first three are our must-haves.)* **Essential** * **Bias for action / program delivery:** 5+ years leading complex, multi-team software or technology programs in fast-paced or early-stage environments. You get things done. * **Technically strong:** Comfortable working with engineers and reasoning about modern software, ML, and robotics stacks, even if you don't write code. * **Systems thinking:** You reason about how the parts of a complex system fit together, and how a change in one area ripples into others. * **Stays neutral and adapts under pressure:** Effective in high-tension, ambiguous situations; you flex your style to keep people aligned and moving. * **Strong project management:** Skilled at planning, prioritising, managing risk and dependencies, and adapting as things change. * **Clear communicator:** You explain complex ideas simply, surface risk early, listen well, and keep teams aligned. * **Collaborative leader:** You bring people together, influence without authority, and create a positive team culture. * **Strategic thinking & problem-solving:** You keep the bigger picture in mind, stay calm under pressure, and find creative solutions. * **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. * **Growth mindset:** Open to feedback and always looking to improve. **Desirable** * Ideally 8+ years as a Technical Program Manager. * An engineering or computer science degree, or experience working as an engineer; excels in Jira (or similar). * Exposure to autonomous vehicles, robotics, ML, simulation / evaluation, or other safety-critical or compute-heavy domains. 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, and time spent working from home. ## Apply [Apply on Wayve]() Canonical job page: