Product Feature Owner - Parking

Before the detail, here's the challenge you'd help us solve.

We build the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future. Very few people in AI can say this. Every role here, whatever the team, plugs into that.

Here’s what this particular role covers.

Wayve’s Product & Delivery team turns our AI Driver technology into valuable, scalable vehicle capabilities for global OEM partners. We work at the intersection of customer needs, product strategy and engineering delivery—defining what great looks like, aligning teams around a clear outcome and ensuring that Wayve’s technology can be brought to market safely and effectively.

As part of this team, you’ll take end-to-end ownership of specific Parking functionalities. You’ll work closely with OEM customers, product and engineering teams to define feature scope, set performance targets and guide delivery from concept through to production. Your work will directly shape how Wayve’s technology performs for customers and drivers as we progress towards higher levels of autonomy.

• Act as the accountable product owner for specific Parking features, ensuring they are delivered on time, to the agreed specification and in line with customer and business needs.

• Partner closely with OEM customers to understand their requirements, represent their needs internally and align expectations without compromising Wayve’s product strategy.

• Work with feature group owners and engineering teams to define feature scope, specifications, performance targets and delivery plans.

• Partner with systems, hardware, perception, platform, safety and supplier teams to shape the Parking sensor and compute architecture.

• Drive integration and issue resolution across the Parking sensor stack, including ultrasonic sensors (USS) and surround-view cameras (SVCs).

• Engage throughout feature development, providing early feedback, participating in testing and supporting evaluation and validation activities.

• Identify risks early, manage trade-offs and keep teams aligned as customer priorities, platform constraints and the technology evolve.

• Owning the end-to-end lifecycle of Parking features, including Park Distance Control, Rear-AEB, Auto-Park Assist, Remote Park Assist and Memory Parking.

• Defining and evolving feature specifications in partnership with OEMs, engineering and product teams.

• Translating sensor, compute and platform constraints into clear feature scope, performance targets and delivery trade-offs.

• Leading integration across the Parking sensor stack, including USS and SVCs, and resolving sensor-specific performance and integration issues.

• Harmonising customer requirements across OEM partners to maximise reusable assets, scalability and efficient feature delivery.

• Setting clear performance targets and ensuring features meet customer requirements, internal capabilities and agreed delivery specifications.

• Supporting testing, evaluation and validation to ensure feature quality and readiness for production.

• Maintaining and evolving the strategic feature roadmap as Wayve’s technology advances towards higher levels of autonomy.

• Participating in agile planning and delivery rituals, helping teams manage dependencies, risks and priorities effectively.

• Ensuring feature delivery aligns with relevant automotive quality, safety and compliance expectations.

• You have strong experience specifying and delivering Parking features from concept through to production, particularly Park Distance Control, Rear-AEB, Auto-Park Assist, Remote Park Assist or Memory Parking.

• You understand automotive development processes, including requirements management, the V-model, ASPICE, quality and validation.

• You are confident working directly with OEM customers: understanding their needs, negotiating requirements and representing their perspective internally while maintaining a clear view of Wayve’s product strategy.

• You have sufficient technical depth to engage credibly with engineering teams on Parking feature trade-offs, feasibility, testing, evaluation and validation.

• You have experience defining and integrating automotive Parking sensor systems, including USS and SVCs, with practical knowledge of interfaces, calibration, diagnostics, supplier management and sensor-specific integration and performance issues.

• You have delivered ADAS or Parking features on resource-constrained automotive SoCs, with a practical understanding of how compute, memory, bandwidth, latency and thermal budgets shape system architecture, feature behaviour, performance and customer experience.

• You are a strong cross-functional collaborator who can bridge technical and commercial perspectives, creating alignment across customers, product, systems, hardware, perception, platform, safety and engineering teams.

• You proactively identify risks and issues before they escalate, balancing immediate delivery needs with the longer-term product roadmap.

• Experience shipping complete Parking features into large-scale automotive production programmes would be valuable.

• Knowledge of automotive quality, safety and compliance standards—including ASPICE, SOTIF, functional safety, NCAP, UNECE, GSR-II and DCAS—would be valuable.

• Experience with AI/ML, LLMs or recent generative-AI methods and architectures would be beneficial.

• You bring curiosity and a forward-looking approach to developing new Parking capabilities and advancing the customer experience.

🌱 Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! If you’re passionate about autonomy and keen to learn, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every requirement.

🚀 Wayve is building the leading AI platform for autonomous driving. We are pioneering an end to end AI approach that enables vehicles to learn directly from real world experience, developing the ability to adapt, generalise and improve at scale. Instead of relying on hand coded rules or pre mapped environments, our AI Driver learns to drive by understanding the world around it. The result is technology that navigates complex urban environments with intelligence, precision and natural flow, unlocking meaningful advances in both safety and efficiency. We believe autonomy represents a once in a generation transformation in how people and goods move, comparable to the shift from horses to cars, and from human driven vehicles to intelligent machines.

Our ambition is to make autonomy universal. Wayve’s mapless and hardware agnostic AI platform integrates with global OEM partners, enabling continuous software evolution and unlocking advanced levels of automation from L2 plus through to L4 as our core AI model scales. In a race increasingly defined by intelligence and real world learning, Wayve is taking a distinct approach, building a generalisable driving intelligence that can power any vehicle, anywhere. By combining embodied AI with scalable deployment, we are creating technology that can be shaped to each OEM brand and driver experience, accelerating the transition to a safer, more intelligent future of mobility.

This is a full-time role based in our Germany office. We operate a hybrid working model that combines in-person collaboration in our dedicated office spaces and workshops with focused time working remotely. This gives our teams the connection and energy of working together, alongside the flexibility to do their best work in a way that fits their lives.

Our process is clear and respectful of your time:

• Initial call / recruiter screen (30 minutes)

• Competency interviews (product ownership, customer collaboration and cross-functional delivery)

• Deep-dive technical interviews (Parking and ADAS domain knowledge, feature delivery and product thinking)

• Final interview: mission & values alignment.

We’ll always explain the format and work around your availability.

💰 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

A quick, honest note before you apply.

Wayve is not a mature, fully-structured place with the playbook already written. Much of how we work is still being written, and if you join, you’ll help write it. That suits people who want real ownership more than people who need a settled structure from day one.

If that sounds like the kind of problem you want to spend your time on, we’d really like to hear from you.

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