wayve - Associate Talent Partner
Responsibilities
• 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.
Benefits
• 💰 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 • This is a full-time, 12-month fixed-term contract based in our King's Cross office in London. At Wayve, we want the best of all worlds, so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines a minimum of two days each week in the office with time spent working from home. Time together in our offices and operational environments helps fuel innovation, culture, relationships, and learning. • 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. https://wayve.ai/careers/ To learn more about what drives us, visit Values at Wayve https://wayve.ai/careers/
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