Supply Chain Program Manager

About the Position

We are looking for a Supply Chain Program Manager to join our team at Wayve in Sunnyvale, California, USA. This is a full-time position within the Finance department. The base salary for this role ranges from $184,200 to $240,000 USD per year.

About Our Supply Chain Team

The Supply Chain Program Manager is a critical cross-functional role responsible for owning end-to-end supply chain execution across assigned programs and product builds at Wayve, including prototype development, new product introduction (NPI), and fleet launches. You’ll serve as the primary Supply Chain lead for your programs, ensuring program deliverables, supplier compliance, and seamless coordination across Engineering, Operations, Manufacturing, and external partners.

Responsibilities

• Acting as the primary Supply Chain lead for assigned programs and internal product builds, including prototypes, NPI, and subassemblies.
• Owning end-to-end material readiness to support program milestones across R&D, Engineering, Operations, and Manufacturing.
• Collaborating with Engineering, Planning, Sourcing, Logistics, Finance, and Suppliers to align supply chain activities with program timelines.
• Acting as the strategic liaison between hardware engineering and procurement teams, including managing demand aggregation.
• Translating engineering BOMs and aggregated Technical Program Manager demand into procurement plans.
• Identifying long-lead items and critical-path components early in the product lifecycle, tracking material status throughout build phases, and proactively escalating gaps and risks.
• Collaborating with Supply Chain Team Leads to ensure direct purchasing, indirect purchasing, and logistics suppliers meet legal, environmental, regulatory, and ethical sourcing requirements, including TISAX and ISO standards.
• Partnering with Legal and Compliance to ensure appropriate supplier agreements, NDAs, and risk controls are in place.
• Developing contingency plans for supply disruptions and actively managing supply chain risks.
• Serving as the primary program manager for upfitter and partner relationships, maintaining stakeholder alignment, and driving activities against vehicle timelines and quality standards.
• Proactively identifying and resolving issues affecting vehicle build readiness while coordinating internal teams and external partners.
• Maintaining clear communication cadences with upfitters and stakeholders, tracking milestones, and escalating risks as needed.
• Defining, tracking, and reporting supply chain KPIs, including material availability, total cost savings, and inventory cycle count accuracy.
• Establishing program-level dashboards and reporting cadences that provide leadership and cross-functional stakeholders with visibility into performance.
• Analyzing KPI trends to identify root causes of underperformance and drive corrective actions with suppliers and internal teams.
• Using KPI insights to continuously improve supply chain processes, reduce waste, and increase overall program efficiency.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience in supply chain program management, NPI, and hardware operations.
• Strong understanding of BOM management, material planning, and procurement processes.
• Demonstrated experience managing cross-functional programs across Engineering, Operations, and Supply Chain.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and risk-management skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management capabilities.
• Ability to travel internationally as needed.

Nice to Have

• Experience in the automotive, consumer, hardware, or robotics industries.
• Familiarity with supplier compliance frameworks, including TISAX, ISO standards, and ethical sourcing requirements.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• 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
• 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
• Meaningful equity, sharing in the ownership and long-term success of Wayve

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. Our AI Driver learns to drive by understanding the world around it, resulting in 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. 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

Our process is clear and respectful of your time:

1. Initial call / recruiter screen (30 mins)
2. Competency interviews (Hiring Manager Interview) (45 mins)
3. Deep-dive interviews (Team and cross-functional interviews) (3 hrs)
4. Final interview (30 mins)

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

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.

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.