Wayve

Lead Technical Program Manager, Data

Sunnyvale, California USA · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$259k-$312kDetected 12 days ago

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About the role

The data corpus is also critical for teams working on simulation and validation.
You will leading flagship programs yourself while supporting and coaching a small, high-impact TPM team.
Your impact is measured in data quality, throughput, cost, and how predictably the data that powers every model lands.

Lead the function: Build, coach, and grow a small TPM team
Own data delivery: Partner with Data leadership on planning, prioritisation, and execution across the data roadmap.
Trusted partner for Engineering: You are a leader in the org. You will maintain the partnership with Engineering leaders to land big outcomes, pushing teams to land impact with high leverage and hold leaders to account.
Drive flagship programs directly: Data platform, data pipelines, enrichment & curation, labelling / annotation, and dataset management and quality.
manage dependencies, risk, and trade-offs.
People leadership: You build, coach, and grow high-performing teams, and raise the bar on the craft.
Lead the function: Build, coach, and grow a small TPM team; hire to fill gaps and raise the bar.

8+ years in data: Deep, hands-on experience delivering data programs as a technical program manager - data platform, pipelines, enrichment / curation, labelling - including people and process leadership.
Experience with data ingestion from raw data to processing through different stages and pipelines.
Working experience with a large scale distributed data platform used by 100s of engineers and researchers.
An engineering or computer science degree, or experience working as an engineer; fluent with modern delivery tooling (e.g. Jira).

This role is a full-time role based in Sunnyvale, CA (hybrid) and the reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $259,200 to $312,400, plus a competitive equity package.

Tie delivery to data quality, throughput, cost, and time-to-insight, and represent the data org in company-level reviews.
In order to set you up for success as a Lead Technical Program Manager, Data at Wayve, we're looking for the following skills and experience. (The first four are our must-haves.)

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