Training Program Lead, Autonomous Driving (Global)
About the role
The AV Training Manager at Moove AV is responsible for setting and maintaining the highest standards of training and certification for validation drivers and supervisors worldwide. This role requires a strong systems-thinking approach and a commitment to safety and quality.
Responsibilities
Programmatic Ownership: Ensure the training quality is measured through certification integrity, audit findings, and cross-market performance trends.
Curriculum Management: Continuously improve the curriculum, assessment frameworks, and certification bar for each market.
Safety Assurance: Maintain a non-negotiable standard of safe driving behavior with zero exceptions.
Local Empowerment: Empower local teams to adapt the curriculum to their specific market needs and share their learnings to update the global standard.
Training Delivery: Teachback-certified; personally deliver Train-the-Trainer (TTT) sessions and certify the first team in any new market before it goes live.
Capacity & Milestone Planning: Drive the overarching training roadmap for every market, ensuring alignment with safety, workforce planning, fleet ops, and local ops.
Risk Mitigation: Identify and address potential bottlenecks or deviations from the launch schedule to ensure local teams have the necessary resources.
Reporting & Visibility: Set the standard for tracking and reporting certification status and progress, ensuring visibility and actionability for leadership.
Global Infrastructure Standards: Define the requirements for facilitation space, closed courses, vehicle equipment, and hardware needed for training.
Deployment Pipeline: Oversee the infrastructure readiness pipeline, securing facilities and equipment well ahead of key milestones through procurement, supplier management, and local partner relationships.
Requirements
Education & Certification: Bachelor’s Degree required. A Program Management certification (e.g., PMI-PgMP, PMP, or CPTM) is preferred, or equivalent experience managing complex initiatives.
Experience: 3–5 years in AV operations or AV training. Proven experience building, scaling, running, or delivering training programs.
Programmatic Mindset: Ability to map dependencies, anticipate risks, and drive cross-functional roadmaps without formal authority, all while keeping a laser focus on day-to-day training quality.
Domain Expertise: Experience training, coaching, or mentoring validation/safety drivers, ideally with TTT or multi-site standardization work. Deep fluency in AV validation operations, disengagement protocols, and data logging.
Safety-First Track Record: A demonstrated history of balancing safety and operations, consistently defaulting to safety-first decisions even under launch pressures.
Curriculum Design: Comfort designing validation driver curriculum, with the ability to deliver it live when needed (e.g., new market launches, TTT sessions).
Sharp Audit Instincts: Able to critically assess a trainer's delivery and overall program efficacy, not just an individual driver's performance.
Change Agent: A bias against the status quo. Always pushing to improve quality, efficacy, or cost, and willing to speak up and drive change when KPIs deviate.
Travel: Comfortable with up to 40% travel—domestic or international—to deliver training in-market, audit local programs, or host classes at a Moove hub.