Associate Talent Partner - Fleet Operations

Location

Sunnyvale, California, USA

Employment Type

Full-time

Department

People & Talent

About the Position

Wayve is pioneering Embodied AI for autonomous driving. We are looking for a Talent Acquisition Associate to join our Sunnyvale team and support the continued growth of our real-world testing and operations. Our talent team plays a crucial role in building the high-performing Fleet Operations teams that enable us to scale safely and efficiently across North America and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end recruitment across high-volume frontline, technical, specialist, and manager-level Fleet Operations roles, including intake, market mapping, assessment, offer, and close.
• Build representative candidate pipelines through direct sourcing and a range of attraction channels, focusing on scalable strategies for Vehicle Safety Operators and other operational roles.
• Develop trusted partnerships with hiring managers and Directors, providing consultative guidance on role definition, assessment, market conditions, candidate quality, and closing strategies.
• Deliver an inclusive, transparent, and well-managed candidate experience, supporting teams with structured interviewing, timely feedback, and consistent decision-making.
• Use recruitment data and market intelligence to monitor progress, identify risks and bottlenecks, and shape effective hiring strategies.
• Collaborate with colleagues across Talent Acquisition, People, Finance, and Fleet Operations on workforce planning, employer branding, and improvements to hiring processes.

Requirements

• Demonstrated success independently delivering full-cycle recruitment within a fast-paced or scaling organization.
• Experience recruiting across a broad range of roles, including high-volume, professional, or manager-level positions.
• Confidence and judgment to advise senior stakeholders, challenge assumptions, and translate business needs into effective hiring strategies.
• Strong direct-sourcing skills and experience using multiple attraction channels.
• Hands-on, adaptable, highly organized, and able to balance competing priorities with strong attention to detail.
• Comfortable using applicant tracking systems, recruitment data, and market insights to inform decisions and communicate progress.

Nice to Have

• Experience recruiting within fleet operations, automotive, logistics, manufacturing, field operations, mobility, customer operations, or another high-volume operational environment.
• Experience supporting hiring across multiple locations, working with globally distributed stakeholders, or familiarity with Ashby or similar ATS.
• Experience designing or improving volume-hiring campaigns, recruitment events, or structured assessment processes.
• Thrive in a startup environment where priorities and processes continue to evolve.

We Offer

• Competitive salary ranging from $130,000 to $150,000 per year, plus a competitive equity package.
• Hybrid working policy: a minimum of two days each week in the office, with the balance flexible for remote work.
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable.
• 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.
• Learning and development budgets with support for training, conferences, and growth.

About the Company

🚀 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, generalize, 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.

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 generalizable 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.

🔍 The Interview Process

• Initial call / recruiter screen (30 mins)
• Competency Interviews (2 hours total)
• Deep-dive technical interviews (2 hours total)
• Final interview: mission & values alignment (1 hour)

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

Application Note

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.

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 sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic, or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, pregnancy, or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

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.