# Technical Program Manager, Robotaxi

**Company**: Wayve
**Location**: Tokyo
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

We build the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future. As a Technical Program Manager for Robotaxi, you'll own the programs that bring our robotaxi service to life, from vehicle and fleet readiness to on-the-ground launch and scaling in market.

Responsibilities:

- Owning the lifecycle of robotaxi programs, from vehicle and fleet readiness to launch and in-market scaling, improving delivery through structured execution and coordination.

- Tracking and managing dependencies, risks and trade-offs across autonomy, vehicle, operations and safety, and escalating early with clear options.

- Keeping engineering, fleet operations, safety and local partner teams aligned, bridging Wayve's global R&D with local delivery in Japan.

- Providing hands-on program support for robotaxi launch and in-market operations, on the ground in Yokohama.

- Supporting local vehicle hardware and software programs as needed, as the only TPM in Japan.

- Running planning, stand-ups, reviews and retros that keep multi-team delivery predictable and reliable.

- Communicating progress and risk to engineers, partners and senior leaders, tailoring updates to each audience.

- Improving tooling, processes and ways of working, and sharing patterns across the TPM org.

Requirements:

- Bias for action: 5+ years leading complex, multi-team programs.

- Technically strong across software and hardware: Credible with engineers across autonomy, vehicle software, and vehicle hardware.

- Stays neutral and adapts under pressure: Effective in ambiguous, safety-critical environments.

- Strong project management: Skilled at planning, prioritising, and managing risk and dependencies across teams.

- Exceptional communicator & collaborator: Operating from a remote office, you keep distributed teams aligned across time zones.

- Cross-cultural & on the ground: Comfortable working across geographies and cultures, and hands-on with vehicles and operations in Japan.

- Generalist range: As the only TPM in-country, comfortable flexing beyond robotaxi to support vehicle hardware and software programs.

- Data-driven: Comfortable defining and using metrics to steer delivery and decisions.

- Growth mindset: Open to feedback and always looking to improve.

- Systems thinking: You reason about how the parts of a complex system fit together, and how a change in one area ripples into others.

- Product-minded: You focus on outcomes and the people your programs serve.

Benefits:

- Salaries benchmarked against the market annually

- Meaningful equity, sharing in the ownership and long-term success of Wayve

- Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable

- Hybrid working, core hours and the chance to work hands-on in vehicle workshops and labs

- Learning and development budgets with support for training, 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

## Skills

### Required
- autonomy
- vehicle software
- hardware
- project management
- communication
- collaboration

### Nice to have
- Robotaxi / AV operations
- fleet
- mobility
- ride-hailing
- automotive experience
- ML

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