Lead Technical Program Manager, Quality & Compliance

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.

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.

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.