US - Technical Operations Manager

The posting, as Wayve wrote it

Before the detail, here's the challenge you'd help us solve.

We build the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future. Very few people in AI can say this. Every role here, whatever the team, plugs into that.

Here’s what this particular role covers.

🛠️ About our Technical Operations Team

Our Technical Operations function acts as the critical bridge between Science, Product, Engineering, and Operations. The team is responsible for translating complex technical strategies into actionable field operations and driving the transformation from R&D-focused activities to seamless commercial delivery. We lead testing and demonstration programs across global operations, ensuring reliable feedback loops between field and development teams to accelerate Wayve’s evolution into a world-class, delivery-grade AV organization.

🧠 Your day-to-day

• Serve as the key bridge between Science, Product, Engineering, and Operations, ensuring the alignment of technical programs and on-road activities.
• Lead testing and demonstration programs across global operations, including roadshow campaigns, customer programs, and on-road validation activities.
• Coordinate structured feedback between field operations and development teams, supporting faster iteration and technical advancement.
• Convert high-level strategies into clear action plans for on-road testing, working closely with Fleet Operations to maintain schedules, safety, and feasibility.
• Collaborate with Systems and Enablement teams to leverage fleet metrics for continuous process improvement and operational refinement.
• Foster innovation in field testing, proactively exploring new experimental methods and supporting a culture of curiosity and experimentation.

🧩 What you’ll be working on

• Technical and Operations Enablement: Converting program plans into actionable on-road operations in partnership with Fleet Operations leadership.
• Testing and Validation: Coordinating and leading execution of internal and external programs, ensuring the highest safety standards and capturing mission-critical feedback.
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Acting as the connective tissue between development teams and field operations, enabling structured, two-way feedback loops.
• Operational Readiness: Ensuring consistent experiment design, vehicle availability, and process quality across all testing programs.
• Continuous Improvement: Partnering to utilize fleet data and systems for process refinement and quantifiable gains in operational performance.
• Innovation in Testing & Evaluation: Driving new experimental methodologies and supporting the discovery of novel operational insights.
• Technical Collaboration: Building strong partnerships with model development teams to maximize the value of data, tests, and operational feedback.

🙌 You should apply if

Essential

• Demonstrable experience i

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aining, conferences and growth
🩺 Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension where applicable, access to therapists, wellbeing partnerships, team socials and more

Location & Salary

This is a full-time role based in Sunnyvale, CA (hybrid). The reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $175,000 to $220,000, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation will depend on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.

A quick, honest note before you apply.

Wayve is not a mature, fully-structured place with the playbook already written. Much of how we work is still being written, and if you join, you’ll help write it. That suits people who want real ownership more than people who need a settled structure from day one.

If that sounds like the kind of problem you want to spend your time on, we’d really like to hear from you.

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