Global Head of AV Driver Training

Wayve • Sunnyvale, CA

10d • Hybrid

About The Position

Our Operations Enablement teams design and implement the systems that ensure Wayve’s on-road workforce—Vehicle Safety Operators and their support teams—are trained, certified, and developed to the highest global standards. Spanning the UK, US, Germany, and Japan, this team translates a unified global approach into regionally relevant and compliant operations. We drive excellence and consistency by building the structures that turn real-world insights into impactful and rapid upskilling for all operators, always with a clear focus on safety, readiness, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Significant leadership experience in training, capability development, operations enablement, or workforce readiness—ideally within autonomous systems, mobility, robotics, aviation, defence, logistics, or other safety-critical domains.
• Have built and led structured training programmes across multiple sites, regions, or countries.
• Demonstrated success designing scalable onboarding, certification, and recurrent training frameworks for operational roles.
• Can translate operational, product, or safety requirements into practical training content, standards, and readiness criteria.
• Strong track record of data-driven performance and quality improvement.
• Thrive working cross-functionally to align training with business needs.
• Experience leading managers or senior individual contributors and setting direction for a globally distributed function.
• Analytical and comfortable working with data pipelines to drive insights, metrics, and reporting.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in autonomous vehicles, transport, robotics, logistics, aviation, or defense.
• Familiarity with certification, compliance record-keeping, and audit requirements for regulated or safety-critical environments.
• Experience managing both contractors and full-time employees, including through transitions to FTE.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a globally distributed team of Regional Training Leads and Training Coordinators.
• Define and continuously improve the global training architecture, including scalable curricula, onboarding pathways, and certification frameworks for all operational roles.
• Own and update training strategy and standards across all operational geographies, ensuring local compliance and effective delivery.
• Maintain the mechanism for converting operational insights, safety findings, and product changes into rapid training updates.
• Establish, monitor, and report on key metrics that prove training effectiveness, readiness, and adherence—using this data to prioritise interventions.
• Serve as the final gatekeeper to ensure operators meet all performance and safety thresholds prior to live on-road deployment.
• Partner with Operations, Product, and Safety teams to ensure training aligns with business and operational needs.
• Manage global certification and compliance record-keeping, ensuring audit-readiness across all regions.
• Balance the need for a consistent global standard with regional flexibility to meet regulatory and market contexts.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed