Associate Talent Partner

Job description

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. UK — 12-month Fixed-Term Contract 🛠️ About our Talent Acquisition Teams Wayve is pioneering Embodied AI for autonomous driving. As part of our Talent Acquisition team in London, you’ll support the continued growth of our real-world testing and operations through high-impact hiring. The team partners closely with hiring managers and senior leaders to build and scale our global Fleet Operations safely and effectively. You’ll join a collaborative group focused on optimising hiring processes, workforce planning, and delivering an outstanding candidate and hiring manager experience. 🧠 Your day-to-day - Independently manage the end-to-end recruitment process for high-volume frontline, technical, specialist, and manager-level Fleet Operations roles across the UK, Europe, and beyond. - Build representative candidate pipelines through direct sourcing and a range of attraction channels, developing scalable hiring approaches for Vehicle Safety Operators and other core roles. - Partner with hiring managers and Directors to provide guidance on role definition, assessment, market conditions, candidate quality, and closing strategies. - Deliver an inclusive, transparent, and well-managed candidate experience, supporting hiring teams with structured interviewing, timely feedback, and consistent decisions. - Use recruitment data and market intelligence to monitor progress, highlight risks and bottlenecks, and improve funnel performance. - Partner across Talent Acquisition, People, Finance, and Fleet Operations on workforce planning, employer branding, and process improvements. 🧩 What you’ll be working on - Managing full-cycle recruitment for Fleet Operations roles, from intake and market mapping to offer and close. - Designing and executing scalable volume-hiring campaigns and improving assessment processes. - Building trusted, consultative relationships with stakeholders. - Enhancing data-driven recruitment practices and using insights to inform hiring decisions. - Supporting the recruitment needs of a fast-growing, dynamic operational environment at global scale. 🙌 You should apply if - You have demonstrated success in independently delivering full-cycle recruitment in a fast-paced or scaling organisation. - You bring experience recruiting across a range of roles, including high-volume/frontline and specialist or manager-level positions. - You have the confidence and judgement to advise senior stakeholders, challenge assumptions, and translate business needs into effective hiring strategies. - You possess strong direct-sourcing skills and experience building pipelines via multiple attraction channels. - You are hands-on, adaptable, highly organised, and able to balance competing priorities with strong attention to detail. - You are comfortable using applicant tracking systems, recruitment data, and market insights to inform and communicate decisions. - Experience recruiting within fleet operations, automotive, logistics, manufacturing, field operations, mobility, or other high-volume operational environments is desirable. - You may have experience supporting hiring in multiple countries or working with globally distributed stakeholders. - Familiarity with Ashby or a similar applicant tracking system is an advantage. - Experience designing or improving volume-hiring campaigns, recruitment events, or structured assessment processes is desirable. - Prior experience in a startup or scale-up environment is valued. 🌱 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. More about Wayve: 🚀 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 unlock