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Strategic Partnership Manager

Wayve
Sunnyvale, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/17/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/15/2025

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

We’re looking for an experienced Technical Strategic Partnership Manager to lead the development and engagement with all technical partners of Wayve, especially in Silicon and Cloud, working with cross-functional teams to deliver projects with high-level directions.

Key Responsibilities :

  • Ensure technical partnership support to advance Wayve’s Embodied AI development including both inbound and outbound partnership opportunities, strategic analysis, relationship building and management
  • Quick to act on the technical trends and solutions in consideration of the fast-evolving internal technical needs and bring in partnership support
  • Build a clear technical partner roadmap with measurable time bound goals that are clearly aligned to internal technical development goals. Ensuring that this is kept up to date and stakeholders are brought into the key stages as necessary
  • Educated and engage with internal teams to increase their understanding of the tech partners so that we can optimise the long-term value that tech partnerships can bring to Wayve
  • Partner communications are seamless and timely; partners feel up-to-date on status of pilot (and changes) at all times
  • Partnership learnings to Wayve continue to evolve and grow at a pace that matches internal bandwidth constraints and bridges those against Wayve strategic needs and partner goals

About You

In order to set you up for success as a Technical Strategic Partnership Manager at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience.

Essential :

  • Resilient in the face of adversity : when things do not go as planned, or if plans change, they maintain optimism and high energy to solve the challenge at hand
  • Great communication skills : enables partners and internal teams to understand the end goal, allowing all parties to have enough info to be part of creating solutions
  • Humble : views setbacks or incorrect hypothesis as learnings experiences vs failures
  • Big-picture minded : understands the (long-term) end goal, and keeps it in mind as a north star in the midst of (near-term) operational execution
  • Collaborative : Ability to work across various internal and external cross functional teams and knows when to bring in the right people to help “unstick” blockers
  • Desirable :

  • Direct experience working with external cloud and silicon partners
  • Exposure specifically within the AV industry
  • This is a full-time role based in our office in Sunnyvale, CA. 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 operate core working hours so you can determine the schedule that works best for you and your team.

    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.

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