{"id":496284,"url":"https://alion.io/job/wayve-people-partner-engineering","title":"People Partner - Engineering","company":{"id":55,"name":"Wayve","domain":"wayve.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/wayve","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"FirstStage","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":83,"open_postings":16,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.5,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":69,"computed_at":"2026-09-28T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"HR","role_family":"HR","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":61000,"max_usd":149000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":230},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Embodied AI","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-25T13:04:32Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-25","last_verified_at":"2026-09-26T11:11:24Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":null,"days_open":34,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":34},"description":"About us\nFounded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems.\nOur vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving.\nIn our fast-paced environment big problems ignite us-we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future.\nAt Wayve, your contributions matter. We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; we back each other to deliver impact.\nMake Wayve the experience that defines your career!\nThe role\nAs a People Partner supporting Engineering, you’ll play a key role in delivering a high-quality employee experience in a fast-paced, technical environment. Partnering closely with the Senior People Partner for Engineering, you’ll support defined projects across areas like performance, engagement, L&D, and day-to-day advisory work, acting as a trusted first point of contact for employees and managers. You’ll take ownership of routine processes, contribute to developing People resources, and support Employee Relations cases by preparing documentation, drafting communications, and guiding policy-aligned decisions. You’ll also collaborate on broader People team and company-wide initiatives, helping to drive consistency, inclusion, and continuous improvement across the organisation. This role is ideal for someone with solid generalist People experience in a dynamic, scale-up setting, confident working with technically-minded stakeholders and ready to deepen their impact.\nKey responsibilities:\nEmployee Relations: Independently manage ER cases, including documentation, note-taking during meetings, and following up on action points, escalating as needed. Support investigations, grievance handling, and performance management processes. Maintain the employee relations tracker to report on insights and areas of concern to inform recommendations for improvements. Maintain employee records with up to date case information.\nLocal Coaching and Advisory: Provide first-level support in advising Managers and Employees, escalating when required. \nFirst Point of Contact: Serve as the first point of contact for employees and managers seeking support on People-related queries such as policies, benefits, and system navigation. Triage queries and escalate more complex issues to the relevant People Partner or people operations.\nProject Support: Collaborate with People Partners on People initiatives and project work, such as employee engagement, retention strategies, and performance management.\nData and Reporting: Assist in data collection, analysis, and generating reports from People systems for analysis, compliance audits, or management requests.\nPeople Documentation: Support in drafting and updating manager and employee resources for handbooks and intranet platforms.\nPolicy development: Ensure People policies and procedures are up-to-date, legally compliant, and easy to access for employees and managers.\nOffboarding: Support offboarding processes, including exit interviews and follow-up on necessary documentation.\nEngagement: Preparing engagement reports and insights, surfacing relevant themes and partnering with the Senior People Partner and business leaders on actions. \nTalent Team support: Liaise with Talent Acquisition and build relationships with local stakeholders to support hiring efforts where needed.\nAbout you\nIn order to set you up for success as a People Partner at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience.\nEssential\nDemonstrated experience in a People Partnering or Advisory role within a fast-paced, scaling organisation, with a strong foundation across core People practices and the employee lifecycle.\nExperience partnering with Engineering or similarly technical teams, with the ability to adapt People practices and communication to suit technically minded stakeholders.\nStrong employee relations capability and working knowledge of UK employment law, including independently managing performance, grievance, investigation and absence cases from start to finish.\nDemonstrated ability to coach and influence managers, challenge constructively, clarify ownership and support effective decision-making in complex or sensitive situations.\nExperience delivering initiatives across several areas, such as engagement, performance management, organisational change, learning and development, reward, wellbeing or policy development.\nStrong independent judgement and problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, balance competing priorities and drive work through to completion.\nConfidence using People data, employee feedback and HR systems to identify trends, surface risks and develop practical recommendations.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build credibility and tailor advice for employees, managers and senior stakeholders.\nDesirable\nExperience in a fast growth environment (preferably a start-up).\nExperience supporting people across multiple geographies. \nProficiency in AI tooling to support workflows.\nUK Employment law knowledge and best practice.\nThis is a full-time role based in our office in King’s Cross. 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.\nWayve is committed to creating an inclusive interview experience. If you require any accommodations or adjustments to participate fully in our interview process, please let us know.\nWe understand that everyone has a unique set of skills and experiences and that not everyone will meet all of the requirements listed above. If you’re passionate about self-driving cars and think you have what it takes to make a positive impact on the world, we encourage you to apply.\nAt 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.\nFor more information visit Careers at Wayve.\nTo learn more about what drives us, visit Values at Wayve\nFor US candidates only, please visit E-Verify Notice and Participation and Right to Work\nDISCLAIMER: We will not ask about marriage or pregnancy, care responsibilities or disabilities in any of our job adverts or interviews. 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