Senior Product Lifecycle Manager (Autonomous Driving)

Location: London, United Kingdom; full-time hybrid role based in the London office

Company

hirify.global is building an AI platform for autonomous driving, using embodied, mapless and hardware-agnostic intelligence to support vehicle automation from Level 2+ through Level 4.

What you will do

• Translate product milestones into integrated schedules, priorities and delivery plans across engineering and product teams.
• Own lifecycle plans for Level 2 and Level 4 product milestones and maintain a shared source of truth.
• Manage dependencies and critical-path activities across engineering, product, safety, verification and validation.
• Manage system-level artefacts and establish milestone-readiness criteria using technical status, metrics and backlog data.
• Identify technical risks and sequencing bottlenecks, then drive mitigation, prioritisation and trade-off decisions.
• Communicate programme status, risks and decisions while improving lifecycle-planning practices and tooling.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience leading complex, multi-team technical or product programmes, including planning, execution and delivery across several engineering teams.
• Strong automotive or autonomous-vehicle industry background and understanding of integrated vehicle and software products.
• Technical depth to work with engineers, evaluate complex system architectures and constructively challenge delivery plans.
• Systems thinking, including understanding how technical decisions, dependencies and changes affect downstream teams and product outcomes.
• Ability to prioritise and recommend trade-offs under uncertainty and evolving information.
• Track record of identifying delivery, technical and dependency risks early and driving them to resolution.
• Experience using metrics, technical evidence and backlog health to assess readiness and guide programme decisions.
• Product-minded, outcome-focused approach connecting delivery decisions to customer value and business impact.
• Ability to facilitate challenging stakeholder conversations, resolve conflicting technical priorities and create alignment without formal authority.
• Clear written and verbal communication for technical and business audiences.
• Proficiency with Jira, Confluence and modern backlog, planning and programme-management tools.

Nice to have

• Experience in a safety-critical, regulated or complex multi-stakeholder environment.
• Programme-management qualification such as PMP, CAPM or PRINCE2.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with in-person collaboration, focused remote work and core hours.
• Opportunity to work hands-on in vehicle workshops and labs.
• Learning and development budgets supporting training, conferences and professional growth.
• Benefits may include health and dental insurance, enhanced parental leave, retirement or pension arrangements, therapy access, wellbeing partnerships and team socials, depending on location.
• Work in a still-developing environment with significant ownership over how programmes and practices are built.

Hiring process

• Recruiter screen: 30 minutes.
• Competency interviews, including a hiring-manager call: 60 minutes.
• Deep-dive technical interviews covering stakeholder management and a delivery use case: 2 hours, followed by a 45-minute mission and values interview.