Who we are

Established in 2017, Wayve is a leader in autonomous vehicle technology, driven by breakthroughs in Embodied AI. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic technologies empower vehicles to navigate complex environments effortlessly. 

Supported by prominent investors, Wayve is advancing the transition from assisted to fully automated driving, making transportation safer, more efficient, and universally accessible. Join our world-class, multinational team of engineers and researchers as we push the boundaries of frontier AI and autonomous driving, creating impactful technologies and products on a global scale.

Where you will have an impact

This role is expected to be able to provide operational and tactical support to the Fleet Operations Division, as well as providing tactical support across other departments where needed. In both a reactive and proactive manner, you will be working with the management team of Fleet Operations to enact and action their goals and enable high performance through people related practices and processes.  This impact is expected to be achieved in an autonomous, delivery & data focused way, with a key focus on operational processes and stakeholder management and support. 

Challenges you will own

• Partnering with Talent to ensure an effective and high quality Talent hiring machine that meets rapid growth and necessary speed of execution for the Fleet Operations team, ensuring a high quality process leads to high quality candidates and subsequent outcomes.
• Supporting managers to ensure key people processes are executed in a timely manner such as pre-employment checks, probationary processes and other key lifecycle touch points.
• Performance management, expectation setting & support across Fleet Operations management.
• Supporting the leaders to maintain positive engagement & motivation across the teams
• Ensuring DEI is accounted for in People practices and decisions within Fleet Operations  
• All ER situations within Fleet Operations and potential ER support for other teams where needed 

What you will bring to Wayve

Essential: 

• At least 3+ years in a People role
• Experience in handling ER cases
• Experience in onboarding and early lifecycle touch points
• Empathy & understanding with clear approachability
• Demonstrated commerciality 
• Experience in Manager Level Stakeholder Management
• Expertise in performance management and building high performing teams
• Concise communication in both written and verbal form
• Ability to flex style to different stakeholders
• Ability to pivot and flex as needed 

Desirable: 

• 2+ years as a People Partner / HRBP 

What we offer you

• The chance to be part of a truly mission driven organisation and an opportunity to shape the future of autonomous driving.  Unlike our competitors, Wayve is still relatively small and nimble, giving you the chance to make a huge impact
• Competitive compensation and benefits
• A dynamic and fast-paced work environment in which you will grow every day - learning on the job, from the brightest minds in our space, and with support for more formal learning opportunities too
• A culture that is ego-free, respectful and welcoming (of you and your dog) - we even eat lunch together every day
• Benefits such as an onsite chef, workplace nursery scheme, private health insurance, cycle scheme, therapy, yoga, two onsite bars, large social budgets 
• This is a full-time role based in our office in London. At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home.  We also operate core working hours so you can be where you need to be for family and loved ones too.  Teams determine the routines that work best for them.

At Wayve we’re committed to creating a diverse, fair and respectful culture that is inclusive of everyone based on their unique skills and perspectives, and regardless of gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, ethnicity, age or religious belief

DISCLAIMER: We will not ask about marriage or pregnancy, care responsibilities or disabilities in any of our job adverts or interviews. However, we do look to capture information about care responsibilities, and disabilities among other diversity information as part of an optional DEI Monitoring form to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring process and ensure that the process is inclusive and non-discriminatory.