Technical Product Manager, Development Vehicles

As Technical Product Manager, you own the roadmap for Wayve's development and experimentation vehicle platforms, shaping capabilities that enable faster iteration across software, hardware, and operations. You partner with engineering, program management, and internal customers to translate needs into scalable solutions, while supporting customer programs for reuse. The role balances tradeoffs and drives platform performance with measurable KPIs, contributing to Wayve’s mission to accelerate autonomous driving through embodied intelligence. You’ll work cross-functionally to reduce friction, improve tooling, and deliver integrated, end-to-end platform capabilities that scale. This is a high‑t

• Salaries benchmarked against market annually
• Meaningful equity
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship
• Hybrid working with core hours
• Learning and development budgets for training and conferences
• Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, retirement or pension, wellbeing support

• Own and evolve the platform roadmap for development and experimentation features
• Gather and prioritise requirements from engineering, PM, and internal customers into workflows, specs, and success criteria
• Define and track platform KPIs and maintain a cohesive view of capabilities and future plans
• Make product tradeoffs and manage stakeholder expectations across competing priorities
• Coordinate cross-functional execution and resolve dependencies for complex, interconnected capabilities
• Identify opportunities to improve tooling and processes for debugging, deployment, and data access
• Shape capabilities that enable faster experiments, data collection and deployments across Wayve
• Drive reusable platform capabilities to reduce one-off configurations across reference vehicles and customer programs
• Improve developer and operational workflows to connect software, hardware and operations
• Establish KPIs to guide roadmaps, balancing capability, reliability and delivery
• Improve alignment between internal development environments and customer workflows

• 5+ years of experience shipping autonomy or autonomous vehicle features end-to-end
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with embedded platforms including architecture, development, and validation
• Strong systems thinking and ability to assess downstream impacts on development, data, tooling, and operations
• Track record coordinating cross-functional execution across multiple teams
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence decisions from engineering to leadership
• Thrives in fast-paced, iterative environments with evolving priorities
• Resourceful, pragmatic and outcomes-focused
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field

• stakeholder management
• cross-functional collaboration
• systems thinking
• embedded platforms
• platform development and validation
• defining and tracking KPIs for platforms