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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Lead Technical Program Manager, Quality & Compliance - **Company:** Wayve - **Location:** London, UK (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £63,840.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** ISO/IEC 15504, Information Technology - **Published:** September 6, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5872108453 ## About the Role * 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. ## Description * 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. 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. ## Related Videos - [Enabling intelligent logistics automation: home-grown Industrial IoT platform at Austrian Post](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2018-enabling-intelligent-logistics-automation-home-grown-industrial-iot-platform-at-austrian-post) - [Cyber Security: Small, and Large!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/259-cyber-security-small-and-large) - [It's not easy being green](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/558-it-s-not-easy-being-green) - [Cybersecurity for Software Defined Vehicles](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/725-cybersecurity-for-software-defined-vehicles) - [On developing smartphones on wheels](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/258-on-developing-smartphones-on-wheels) - [Opening Keynote: Civic Coding, A Framework for Democratic Tech](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/963-opening-keynote-civic-coding-a-framework-for-democratic-tech) ## Related Articles - [How software is steering vehicle technology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/515-how-software-is-steering-vehicle-technology) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Dev Digest 138 - Are you secure about this?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/486-dev-digest-138-are-you-secure-about-this) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers)