# Operations Manager

**Company**: Wayve
**Location**: Leonberg
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**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.

**Your Day-to-Day**

- Lead the operational delivery of internal Remote Operations and Feature Testing activities

- Translate testing priorities and business requirements into clear tactical plans

- Plan and coordinate testing activities across different locations and countries

- Balance staffing, vehicle availability, shift coverage and testing requirements

- Monitor and ensure testing activities are delivered safely, efficiently, and in line with agreed KPIs and standards

- Serve as the escalation point for safety concerns, operational risks and serious incidents

- Communicate and implement new processes, SOPs, and operational changes

- Use data, operational feedback and team input to improve planning, resource utilisation, and delivery

**Responsibilities**

- Line managing the Remote Operations and Feature Testing VSO team by setting clear expectations and supporting their performance, development and wellbeing

- Promoting a safety-first culture and ensuring that operational standards are consistently met

- Supporting the prioritisation and execution of testing activities, including feature testing and remote support missions

- Identifying operational blockers and collaborating with cross-functional teams to resolve them

- Supporting the scaling of internal testing operations while maintaining quality and consistency

**Requirements**

- Proven experience in operational management, ideally in automotive testing, fleet operations, logistics or technology operations

- Strong people leadership experience with direct management of operational teams

- Ability to translate high-level priorities into actionable operational plans

- Strong resource and shift planning skills, and experience in performance management and operational KPIs

- Effective communication and comfort working cross-functionally

- Sound decision-making skills under pressure, with the ability to manage competing priorities

- Strong safety mindset and experience in controlled or safety-sensitive environments

- Ability to work well in dynamic environments and influence operational priorities across teams

**Desirable**

- Experience with ADAS, autonomous vehicle testing, automotive development or remote operations

- Understanding of vehicle testing, data collection, feature testing or safety driver operations

- Experience with VSOs, technicians, field engineers or similar operational teams

- Experience planning activities across countries or markets

- German language skills or experience working within German operational environments

- Experience with Fleetio, Jira, Slack, planning systems or KPI dashboards

## Skills

### Required
- operational management
- people leadership
- planning
- resource management
- performance management
- communication
- decision-making
- safety mindset
- German

### Nice to have
- ADAS
- autonomous vehicle testing
- automotive development
- remote operations
- Fleetio
- Jira
- Slack

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