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About us
Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems.
Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving.
At Wayve, big problems ignite us—we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future.
At Wayve, your contributions matter. We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; we back each other to deliver impact.
Make Wayve the experience that defines your career!
The role
This role offers an exciting opportunity to shape and drive Wayve's commercial partnership strategy, focusing on data partners. You will have the chance to make a significant impact by building strong relationships, aligning partnership goals with Wayve’s vision, and exploring new opportunities in the Embodied AI space.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and engage Wayve’s commercial partners, with a focus on data partnerships (OEM partnerships excluded but requiring internal collaboration).
- Drive partnerships that align with Wayve’s commercial strategy and vision, covering both inbound and outbound opportunities, strategic analysis, and relationship management.
- Build and maintain a commercial partner roadmap with measurable, time-bound goals aligned with Wayve’s needs and vision.
- Explore adjacent commercialisation opportunities for Wayve in the Embodied AI space (e.g., robotics).
- Educate and engage internal teams to enhance their understanding of commercial partners and optimise long-term partnership value.
- Ensure seamless and timely partner communications, keeping stakeholders updated on pilot statuses and changes.
- Continuously evolve partnership learnings to align with Wayve’s strategic needs and partner goals while managing internal bandwidth constraints.
- Collaborate with commercial and tech teams to tackle open-ended, ambiguous problems, working cross-functionally with guidance from leadership.
About you
Essential:
- Strong sense of ownership with a proactive approach to leading projects from ideation to delivery, ensuring outcomes are achieved effectively.
- Action-oriented mindset with a focus on driving meaningful impact through effective stakeholder engagement.
- Resilience in the face of ambiguity and adversity, maintaining optimism and proactively addressing challenges when plans change.
- Ability to collaborate across internal and external cross-functional teams, bringing in the right people to resolve issues and maintain progress.
- Clear and effective communication skills to ensure alignment on goals and enable productive solutions.
- Humility to approach setbacks or incorrect assumptions as opportunities for growth and learning.
- Big-picture perspective to align long-term goals with near-term operational tasks.
- Experience working in fast-paced start-up environments with the ability to adapt to dynamic conditions.
Desirable:
- Passionate and curious about AI, AV and Robotics industry
We understand that everyone has a unique set of skills and experiences and that not everyone will meet all of the requirements listed above. If you’re passionate about self-driving cars and think you have what it takes to make a positive impact on the world, we encourage you to apply.
For more information visit Careers at Wayve.
To learn more about what drives us, visit Values at Wayve
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.
What We Do
We're Wayve, a leading developer of embodied intelligence for autonomous vehicles. We use AI to pioneer a next-generation approach to self-driving: AV2.0, which enables fleet operators to unlock the benefits of AV technology at scale.
Founded in 2017, Wayve is made up of a diverse team of experts in machine learning and robotics. We were the first to deploy AVs on public roads with end-to-end deep learning. Today, our teams are based in London and California, and we're testing AVs in cities across the UK.
Inspired by our vision for a smarter, safer, more sustainable world, we're looking for people who are passionate about building breakthrough solutions to some of the world’s most important challenges. If you're looking for an exciting opportunity with a dynamic team, get in touch!
