Lead Technical Program Manager, Data

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 Program Management TeamWayve’s Program Management team turns complex technical goals into coordinated delivery. Working closely with engineering, research and product teams, we align priorities, manage dependencies and bring clarity to ambiguous challenges. We combine technical depth with cross-functional leadership to help teams move faster, more effectively and with purpose—focusing on meaningful outcomes rather than process for its own sake.As part of this team, you’ll build and lead the technical programme management function supporting our Data organisation. You’ll partner with Data and Engineering leadership to make valuable data immediately and reliably usable, combining hands-on ownership of flagship programmes with coaching and developing a small, high-impact TPM team.🧠 Your day-to-dayCoach and support a small, high-impact TPM team, helping people develop their skills, work through challenges and raise the standard of programme delivery.Act as a trusted delivery partner to Data and Engineering leadership, aligning priorities, challenging trade-offs and holding teams and leaders accountable for meaningful outcomes.Work across data, ML, engineering and external data and annotation suppliers to manage dependencies, surface risks and remove blockers.Use KPIs, dashboards and operational reviews to understand delivery progress, identify bottlenecks and steer decisions with the right data.Represent the Data organisation in company-level reviews, communicating progress, risks and decisions clearly and connecting delivery to business impact.🧩 What you’ll be working on:Building and scaling the technical programme management function for