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.

The role 

In this pivotal role as a Product Feature Owner, you will take end-to-end responsibility for specific Parking functionalities, such as Park Distance Control, Rear-AEB, Auto-Park Assist, Remote Park Assist, Memory Parking. Your focus will be to ensure these features meet customer (OEM) requirements, align with internal capabilities and roadmaps, and are delivered to spec. You will collaborate closely with OEMs, product teams, and engineering teams to define feature scope, set performance targets, and ensure compliance with industry standards. Your dedication to aligning customer needs with our strategic vision will directly enhance our vehicles’ capabilities and user experience.

Key responsibilities:

• Feature Oversight and Delivery: Take full accountability for specific Parking features, ensuring on-time delivery and alignment with agreed-upon specifications. Monitor the feature’s lifecycle from concept to production, addressing any deviations promptly.

• Technical Collaboration and Hands-on Engagement: Collaborate with feature group owners and engineering teams to create feature specifications. Engage actively with the teams throughout feature development, providing early feedback, participating in testing, and supporting validation processes.

• Sensor and Compute Architecture: 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)—and translate platform constraints into clear feature scope, performance targets, and delivery trade-offs.

• Customer Advocacy and Alignment: Deeply understand OEM customer needs and requirements, representing their interests internally without compromising Wayve’s objectives. Harmonise OEM requests across different customers to maximise the development of reusable assets and ensure scalability.

• Cross-functional Communication and Coordination: Serve as the central liaison between OEMs, product teams, and engineering teams for your feature(s). Facilitate streamlined communication and reduce misunderstandings. Participate in agile processes and rituals.

• Risk Mitigation and Strategic Alignment: Proactively identify and address potential issues before they escalate. Maintain and evolve the strategic feature roadmap as our technology progresses towards higher autonomy levels, ensuring alignment with both customer expectations and Wayve’s strategic objectives.

About you  

In order to set you up for success as a feature owner at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience.  

Essential 

• Experience with Parking Feature Development: Expertise in specifying and facilitating Parking feature delivery from concept to production, such as Park Distance Control, Rear-AEB, Auto-Park Assist, Remote Park Assist, Memory Parking, etc.

• Automotive Background: Experience with automotive processes, including requirements management, V-model, ASPICE, quality, and validation.

• Customer Advocacy and Communication Skills: Strong ability to understand and represent OEM customer needs, negotiate requirements, and align expectations between customers and internal teams.

• Technical Competence and Hands-on Approach: Technical understanding of Parking features, system architecture for Parking, capable of engaging in discussions about trade-offs and feasibility, and actively involved in testing, evaluation, and validation processes.

• Parking Sensor Architecture and Integration: Experience defining and integrating automotive parking sensor systems, including USS and SVCs, with practical knowledge of interfaces, calibration, diagnostics, supplier management, and resolving sensor-specific integration and performance issues.

• Resource-Constrained Automotive Compute: Experience delivering ADAS or parking features on tightly 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.

Desirable 

• Experience Shipping Parking Features into Production: Demonstrated success in delivering complete Parking features into large-scale production automotive programs.

• Knowledge of Automotive Quality and Safety Standards: Good understanding of automotive quality and safety standards (ASPICE, SOTIF, FuSa, …) as well as the compliance regime around them (NCAP, UNECE, GSR-II, DCAS, …)

• Experience with AI/ML: LLMs and recent generative AI methods and architectures

• Strong Collaboration Skills: Ability to effectively bridge technical and business perspectives, ensuring clear communication and alignment across teams and stakeholders.

• Innovative and Forward-thinking: A proactive approach to exploring and developing new Parking features, keeping Wayve at the forefront of technological advancement in the industry.

This is a full-time role based in our office in Germany. 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.   

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.