Product Designer

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.

About our Onboard Experience Team

We’re looking for a Product Designer to shape digital in-vehicle experiences for Wayve’s development and demonstration fleet.

Your work will span tools used by trained vehicle operators during testing and validation, as well as guest-facing interfaces that help people understand and experience Wayve’s enriched ADAS and automated-driving technology.

You’ll join a supportive, experienced design environment and partner closely with Product, Engineering and Operations. Together, you’ll explore new ways for people to understand and interact with autonomous-driving technology.

Your day-to-day

You’ll own defined product features from discovery through delivery, combining user insight, interaction design and strong visual craft.

You’ll conduct research and usability testing, translate complex technical and operational requirements into intuitive experiences, and create detailed designs ready for implementation. You’ll also think beyond the screen, considering how visual interfaces, sound, haptics and lighting can work together to make complex technology clear, accessible and easy to use.

What you’ll be working on

Conducting research, observation and usability testing with operators, guests and customers

Translating user needs, complex technology and operational requirements into clear journeys, workflows and interactions

Applying inclusive and accessible design principles across a broad range of needs, abilities and contexts

Designing cohesive experiences across visual interfaces, sound, haptics and lighting

Creating user flows, wireframes, prototypes and polished, production-ready designs

Defining interaction states, edge cases and feedback in sufficient detail for implementation

Collaborating with stakeholders to balance user needs, product goals and technical constraints

Reviewing implementation, resolving design issues and maintaining a high-quality bar for the finished experience

Contributing reusable interaction and visual patterns across Wayve’s vehicle-related products

You should apply if

Your portfolio demonstrates strong interaction and visual/UI craft, including the ability to make complex information and interactions clear without losing important detail

You understand inclusive and accessible design and how different needs and contexts can shape an experience

You have strong wireframing and prototyping skills and can choose the appropriate level of fidelity for the problem

You bring curiosity and sound judgement, and you’re comfortable questioning assumptions, exploring different approaches and working through ambiguity and constraints

You communicate clearly and can explain the reasoning behind your design decisions

You have experience owning product problems through discovery, design, validation and delivery

You have planned and conducted user research or usability testing and applied what you learned

You have collaborated closely with product managers and engineers throughout the product-development process

Experience in the following areas would be useful but is not required:

Designing interfaces that connect people with complex, real-time or physical systems, including automotive, mobility, gaming, robotics, industrial products, kiosks or other interactive machines

Working in constrained environments where hardware, safety, attention or context place limits on interaction design

Designing operational tools, real-time interfaces or products used by people with widely differing levels of technical knowledge

Using generative AI and coding tools to explore ideas, build prototypes or contribute directly to implementation

Designing in-vehicle interfaces, working with Android Auto or applying market-specific guidance such as JAMA

As part of the interview process, we’ll ask you to share examples of work that demonstrate strong interaction and visual design across digital products or interactive experiences.

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, 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.

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 unlocking advanced levels of automation from L2+ 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 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 and more intelligent future of mobility.

Conditions

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

Our main hubs are in London, Sunnyvale, Yokohama, Herzliya, Vancouver and Leonberg. We operate a hybrid working model that combines in-person collaboration in our dedicated offices and workshops with focused time working remotely. This gives our teams the connection and energy of working together alongside the flexibility to do their best work.

The interview process

Our process is clear and respectful of your time:

Initial recruiter conversation

Portfolio review

Final-stage interviews: a collaborative design exercise and hiring manager conversation

We’ll explain each format in advance and work around your availability.

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 opportunities to work hands-on in vehicle workshops and labs
• Learning and development budgets, with support for training, conferences and professional growth
• Comprehensive benefits, including health insurance, dental coverage, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension support where applicable, access to therapists, wellbeing partnerships, team socials and more
• 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.