Director of Fleet Operations Execution

Overview

As Director of Fleet Operations Execution, you will lead a 300+ person global fleet organization to sustain safety, performance, and on-road risk control. You will set global standards, KPIs, and incident response for high-stakes events, while aligning operational, safety, and commercial goals. You will collaborate with Safety, Technical Operations, and cross-functional partners to operationalize testing of features and milestones. This role offers a chance to shape on-road risk governance at scale and drive consistent, high-impact global operations.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working policy
• in-office London with remote work option
• core working hours
• opportunity for regular international travel
• dynamic, inclusive culture
• career impact and leadership role

Responsibilities

• Lead a network of regional Heads of Fleet Ops across UK, US, Germany, and Japan in a 300+ person organization
• Be the authoritative decision-maker on on-road risk in complex, high-stakes situations
• Own incident response execution for high-severity events across geographies
• Balance operational, safety, and commercial objectives in major decisions
• Drive global consistency through clear KPIs and performance metrics for regional teams
• Partner with Safety, Technical Operations, and other cross-functional teams to operationalize feature and milestone testing
• Proactively surface risks and gaps, conducting structured reviews and course-corrections
• Maintain a single global operating standard while managing multiple internal and external programs and platforms

Key requirements

• Extensive leadership experience managing global, multi-site teams of 100+ people through a layer of leaders
• Experience leading through technical development cycles (R&D, product development, testing/validation) with engineers
• Sound judgment in high-stakes, safety-critical situations and ability to own decisions
• Track record setting and enforcing performance standards and KPIs for leaders
• Strong cross-functional influence without formal authority
• Experience owning incident response and risk management for high-severity events
• Comfortable managing a mixed workforce of contractors and full-time employees across regions and time zones
• Based in or willing to relocate to London with in-person presence and international travel

• strong leadership and by-influence
• sound judgment and decisiveness
• cross-functional collaboration
• experience with safety-critical operational environments
• ability to engage with engineering/technical partners
• incident response and risk management

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