Description
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.
As a Lead Technical Program Manager, Data, 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-day:
- Coach 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 our Data organisation, hiring to fill capability gaps and growing a high-performing team.
- Owning planning, prioritisation and execution across the data roadmap in partnership with Data leadership.
- Leading flagship programmes directly across the data platform, ingestion and standardisation pipelines, enrichment and curation, labelling and annotation, and dataset management and quality.
- Establishing scalable planning cadences, governance, escalation paths and operational practices that bring structure without slowing delivery.
- Driving measurable improvements in data quality, throughput, cost and time-to-insight, making the data that powers our models more reliably and predictably available.
You should apply if:
- You bring 8+ years of deep, hands-on experience delivering data programmes as a technical programme manager, spanning data platforms, pipelines, enrichment, curation or labelling.
- You build, coach and grow high-performing teams.
- You have strong technical depth across data platforms, pipelines and large-scale distributed infrastructure, including platforms operating at petabyte scale.
Requirements:
- Data ingestion from raw data through multiple processing stages and pipelines, with an understanding of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), their uses and their challenges.
- A solid understanding of machine learning, GPUs, and training and inference for models with 500 million to 20 billion parameters.
- Proficiency with some or all of Databricks, Flyte, Ray, Kubernetes, Azure, Docker and Python.
- Proficiency with AI agents such as Cursor, Claude or Codex to accelerate execution.
Benefits:
- Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
- 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