How to Apply to Aston Martin

13 min read Last updated April 20, 2026 10 open positions

Key Takeaways

  • AML uses PageUp People as its ATS at careers.astonmartin.com - account-based applications, clean .docx CVs, and complete screening question answers all matter.
  • The Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team is a separate legal entity (AMR GP Limited) based at Silverstone with its own careers portal at astonmartinf1.com. Apply there for F1 roles, not on the AML portal.
  • The company is in an active turnaround under CEO Adrian Hallmark (ex-Bentley, joined September 2024) with a stated 18-month timeline to sustainable profitability.
  • October 2025 brought a 20% workforce reduction plan, a 15% capex cut, and a deferral of the first fully electric Aston Martin into the 2030s. Hiring in 2026 is selective.
  • Three UK sites with distinct missions: Gaydon (Warwickshire HQ and sports car assembly), St Athan (Wales, DBX SUV plant), Newport Pagnell (heritage and Q by Aston Martin bespoke).
  • Mercedes-Benz holds approximately 9% and supplies key electrical, infotainment, and powertrain technology - useful context for software and electronics interviews.
  • Interview format is formal British corporate: recruiter screen, technical deep-dive, competency round on AML's behavioural framework, and a final round that often includes a site visit.
  • Luxury and motorsport experience (Bentley, Rolls-Royce, McLaren, Ferrari, Multimatic, Prodrive, M-Sport) carries weight; volume-OEM experience needs to be translated into low-volume-luxury terms.
  • Show specificity, ownership, and honest failure recovery. Generic 'passion for beautiful cars' answers do not differentiate; concrete project outcomes and credible turnaround mindset do.
  • ResumeGeni's ATS optimisation pass is well-suited to PageUp's strict keyword matching - run your CV against the requisition before you submit.

About Aston Martin

Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings plc is the British ultra-luxury sports car manufacturer behind the DB12, Vantage, DBX SUV, and the limited-run Valkyrie and Valhalla hypercars. Headquartered at Banbury Road, Gaydon in Warwickshire since 2003, the company designs and assembles its sports car range there while building the DBX SUV at a purpose-built plant in St Athan, South Wales. Specialist heritage and Q by Aston Martin commissioning work continues at the historic Newport Pagnell site in Buckinghamshire. The combined workforce sits at roughly 3,000 employees across the UK, though that figure is shrinking: in October 2025 the company announced a restructuring that will eliminate up to 20% of headcount as part of an aggressive turnaround program. Aston Martin trades on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker AML. The shareholder base is unusual and worth understanding before you apply: the Yew Tree Consortium led by Executive Chairman Lawrence Stroll holds approximately 33%, the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia holds roughly 17%, and Mercedes-Benz holds about 9% with an ongoing technology supply agreement covering electrical architectures, infotainment, and powertrain components for current and future models. This concentrated ownership means strategic decisions move quickly when the consortium aligns and very slowly when it does not. Adrian Hallmark joined as Chief Executive Officer in September 2024 after seven years running Bentley Motors, where he steered the brand to consistent profitability for the first time in its modern history. At Aston Martin he has set himself an explicit target of replicating the Bentley turnaround in roughly half the time, aiming for sustainable profit within an 18-month window from his arrival. The published strategy emphasizes value over volume, more model derivatives in the mold of the Porsche 911 lineup, deeper hybridization, and a deferral of the brand's first fully battery-electric car from a planned 2026 launch into the 2030s. Hallmark cut the 2024 production target by roughly 1,000 units to around 6,000 cars, and full-year 2025 results showed revenue of approximately £1.3 billion (down about 21% year on year), an operating loss of £259.2 million, and a net loss in the region of £500 to £600 million. Five-year capital expenditure was trimmed from £2 billion to £1.7 billion. The total debt load remains around £1.4 billion despite multiple capital injections from Stroll's consortium and the PIF. The brand's competitive identity rests on three legs. The first is the road car business, where the front-engined V8 and V12 sports cars (Vantage, DB12, DBS), the DBX SUV, and the limited hypercar specials (Valkyrie, Valhalla, Vanquish) compete with Ferrari, Lamborghini, McLaren, Bentley, and Rolls-Royce at the top of the market. The second is motorsport, anchored by the Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR-LMH program in the FIA World Endurance Championship and IMSA. The Valkyrie's 2025 debut WEC season was a learning year: both cars finished the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2025 (12th and 14th), the program scored a fifth-place top result at Fuji and a podium at Petit Le Mans, and the line-up returns unchanged for 2026. The third leg is the Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team based at Silverstone, with drivers Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll. This is the most important point of confusion for applicants: the F1 team is operated by AMR GP Limited, a separate legal entity that licenses the Aston Martin name. Job openings at the F1 team are posted on a different careers portal at astonmartinf1.com and are not handled by the road-car HR organisation. If your interest is Formula One, apply there, not on the AML portal.

Application Process

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    Step 1 - Find the right portal

    Step 1 - Find the right portal. The AML road-car careers site lives at careers.astonmartin.com (the URL path includes /cwuat/, which is the PageUp tenant identifier; this is normal and not a typo). The marketing landing page at astonmartin.com/en/corporate/careers links into it. Do not confuse this with the F1 team's separate careers portal at astonmartinf1.com - if you want a job at the F1 team in Silverstone, you must apply there. AML road-car roles cluster at Gaydon (Warwickshire HQ, the largest site by headcount), St Athan (Wales, focused on DBX SUV manufacturing and aluminium body production), and Newport Pagnell (heritage restoration, Q by Aston Martin bespoke commissioning, and Aston Martin Works).

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    Step 2 - Filter the live job board

    Step 2 - Filter the live job board. The PageUp listing supports filters by location, function, and contract type. Engineering roles dominate, with active categories including Electric & Hybrid Powertrain, Body, Electrical & Electronics, Chassis, Vehicle Attributes, and Software. Production and skilled trades (auto electricians, trim and final operatives, paint, panel beaters) cluster at Gaydon and St Athan. Commercial, IT, finance, marketing, design, and corporate functions are mostly Gaydon-based. Read the role family carefully: 'Programme Manager' covers vehicle programmes, motorsport programmes, and IT programmes, and the day-to-day differs sharply.

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    Step 3 - Build the candidate profile

    Step 3 - Build the candidate profile. PageUp will ask you to either create an account or sign in via LinkedIn. Take the account route: PageUp's LinkedIn import is shallower than Workday's and will not auto-fill the structured employment history fields. You will need to enter every role manually, with start and end dates, location, employer, and a free-text description. Save your profile early so you can reuse it for multiple applications.

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    Step 4 - Tailor your CV to the requisition

    Step 4 - Tailor your CV to the requisition. UK-format CVs (two pages, no photo, no date of birth, no marital status) are expected. PageUp will parse your uploaded CV but the parse quality varies by template, so you should also paste a clean version into any free-text experience fields the system requests. Mirror the language of the job description: if the requisition mentions 'GD&T' or 'CATIA V5' or 'IATF 16949' or 'ISO 26262', use the same phrasing in your CV rather than synonyms.

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    Step 5 - Answer the screening questions honestly

    Step 5 - Answer the screening questions honestly. PageUp requisitions at AML typically include a small set of knockout questions (UK right-to-work status, willingness to relocate to Gaydon or St Athan, security clearance eligibility for certain motorsport and IT roles, salary expectations as a range). Answer all of them - blank fields will route your application into the rejected pile during the initial sift.

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    Step 6 - Submit and track

    Step 6 - Submit and track. After submission you will receive a confirmation email from a noreply address tied to PageUp. Log back into your candidate homepage on careers.astonmartin.com to monitor status changes (Submitted, Under Review, Shortlisted, Interview, Offer, Unsuccessful). PageUp does not always send email updates for every status change, so check the portal weekly.

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    Step 7 - Set up job alerts

    Step 7 - Set up job alerts. The Early Careers section and the main listing both allow saved searches with email alerts. With the announced 20% workforce reduction, hiring will be selective in 2026 - alerts get you in front of new requisitions on the day they post, which matters when applicant volume is high.

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    Step 8 - First-round contact

    Step 8 - First-round contact. Successful candidates typically hear from the AML in-house Talent Acquisition team within two to four weeks of applying. The first conversation is usually a 30 to 45-minute screening call with a recruiter, focused on motivation, salary expectations, notice period, and the basics of your background.

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    Step 9 - Technical and panel rounds

    Step 9 - Technical and panel rounds. For engineering roles expect two to three further stages: a technical interview with the hiring manager and a senior engineer, often including a whiteboard or take-home design exercise; a competency interview against AML's behavioural framework; and a final-stage interview that may include a site visit to Gaydon or St Athan. Commercial and corporate roles typically run two rounds plus a panel.

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    Step 10 - Offer, references, and onboarding

    Step 10 - Offer, references, and onboarding. AML offers in writing through PageUp with a defined response window (usually one week). Two references are standard, and basic background checks (right to work, criminal record for senior or financial roles) are run before start date. Notice periods of one to three months are normal in the UK and AML expects to honour them - do not over-promise an early start.


Resume Tips for Aston Martin

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Use a UK two-page CV format with reverse-chronological work history

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Mirror the requisition language exactly

Mirror the requisition language exactly. If the job description names CATIA V5, NX, Teamcenter, Vector CANalyzer, dSPACE, Simulink, IATF 16949, APQP, PPAP, FMEA, ISO 26262, AUTOSAR, or specific powertrain or chassis subsystems, use the same terms in your CV. PageUp's keyword matching is unforgiving of synonyms.

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Quantify outcomes in pounds, percentage cost reduction, weight saved in kilogram

Quantify outcomes in pounds, percentage cost reduction, weight saved in kilograms, lap-time improvement in seconds, defects per million parts, or programme schedule compression in weeks. 'Led powertrain calibration' is invisible; 'Led calibration of 4.0L V8 hybrid powertrain across two derivatives, delivering 15% reduction in CO2 versus carryover engine and Type Approval sign-off two weeks ahead of programme' is memorable.

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Lead with luxury and performance automotive experience if you have it

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Highlight motorsport adjacency carefully

Highlight motorsport adjacency carefully. If you have worked at an F1 team, a WEC programme, an IMSA programme, or a high-performance engineering consultancy (Multimatic, Prodrive, M-Sport), call it out. Be precise about whether your experience was at AMR GP (the F1 team) or at AML road cars - hiring managers know the difference and will ask.

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For software and electronics roles, specify the embedded toolchain (MISRA C, AUT

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For manufacturing and skilled trades roles at Gaydon and St Athan, highlight spe

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If applying to Q by Aston Martin or commissioning roles at Newport Pagnell, lead

If applying to Q by Aston Martin or commissioning roles at Newport Pagnell, lead with bespoke and craft experience: Savile Row tailoring, Rolls-Royce Bespoke, JLR SVO Bespoke, high-end yacht or aviation interiors, leather work, marquetry, or hand-finishing trades. Cultural fit with the heritage business is as important as technical skill.

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Avoid the generic luxury cliches

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Run your CV through a final pass against the role's must-have list before you su

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Interview Culture

AML interviews follow the formal British corporate template: structured, multi-round, polite, time-boxed, and competency-led.

The first conversation is a recruiter screen of 30 to 45 minutes, focused on motivation, notice period, salary expectations, and the basics of your CV. You should have a crisp two-minute answer to 'why Aston Martin specifically' that does not lean entirely on the brand. Recruiters know that anyone applying loves the cars - they want to hear what you would actually do in the role and why your experience fits the moment the company is in. For engineering and software roles, the second round is typically a technical deep-dive with the hiring manager and a senior engineer or technical specialist. Expect to walk through a recent project in detail, defend specific design decisions, and answer questions about trade-offs you made. Many engineering interviews include a whiteboard exercise or a take-home design problem - for example, sketching a chassis subsystem solution against weight and stiffness targets, or proposing a software architecture for a vehicle function with given safety and performance constraints. The bar for technical credibility is high; AML hires from a small UK luxury and motorsport talent pool and will not lower the technical standard for cultural fit alone. The competency interview, usually the third stage, runs against AML's behavioural framework. Prepare STAR-format (Situation, Task, Action, Result) examples covering ownership, working under constraint, dealing with ambiguity, collaborating across functions, and recovering from failure. The 'recovering from failure' question is standard at AML and the answer matters - the company is in the middle of a public turnaround and is hiring people who can tell the truth about hard moments rather than candidates who present a polished, scrubbed history. Final-stage interviews often include a site visit to Gaydon or St Athan. This is part assessment, part inducement: walking the production line, seeing the design studio, and meeting the broader team helps both sides commit. Treat the site visit as on the record - your behaviour in informal moments (lunch, the factory tour, the walk to the car park) is observed and reported back. Dress code for interviews skews business or smart business; full formal suits are normal at the corporate level, smart casual is acceptable for engineering and trades roles. Always err formal for the first interview. For commercial, marketing, brand, and corporate roles the format is similar but with more emphasis on judgement and communication. Expect to be asked how you would position the brand against Ferrari and Bentley, how you would think about pricing or product mix, or how you would handle a specific reputational incident. The expected level of articulation is high - AML's customer base is wealthy, attentive, and unforgiving of sloppy brand work, and the interview filters for people who can hold their own in those rooms. Feedback after rejection is variable. Recruiters will usually offer a high-level reason; hiring managers rarely give detailed feedback unless you ask directly and politely. Do ask. The UK luxury automotive market is small enough that you may interview at AML again in a year and recruiters remember candidates who handled rejection well.

What Aston Martin Looks For

  • Demonstrated craft. AML hires people who care about the work itself, not just the brand on the badge. Your interview answers should show pride in execution and an instinct to fix details others would let slide.
  • Genuine luxury or performance automotive understanding. Volume-OEM, aerospace, and motorsport experience all transfer, but you must understand that low-volume, high-margin, high-personalisation work is fundamentally different from high-volume manufacturing.
  • Comfort with ambiguity and constraint. The company is mid-turnaround. Programmes have been re-scoped, the EV programme has been pushed into the 2030s, and headcount is contracting. Candidates who need stability and clear long-range plans will struggle. Candidates who can deliver inside changing constraints will thrive.
  • Technical depth, not breadth. AML is small enough that generalist engineering CVs lose to specialists who have shipped a specific subsystem to production. Pick your specialism and own it.
  • Brand fluency without sycophancy. Hiring managers want to hear that you understand the product line, the heritage, and the current strategic moment. They do not want a fan letter. Be specific about which models, which racing programmes, and which moments in the company's history you find compelling and why.
  • Honest self-assessment. The company is publicly under pressure. Candidates who present an unblemished record of unbroken success seem either dishonest or naive. Real examples of failure recovery, programme slippage you owned, or technical decisions you would now reverse are more credible than a perfect track record.
  • Cross-functional collaboration. Programmes at AML run small and lean. Engineers work directly with design, manufacturing, and commercial. Candidates who have only operated inside large siloed organisations need to show they can work across functions without escalating every disagreement.
  • UK right-to-work or willingness to obtain it. AML sponsors visas selectively for genuinely scarce skills (specific calibration, advanced electronics, motorsport composites) but most roles require existing UK work authorisation. Check the requisition before investing time in the application.
  • Geographic flexibility. The three UK sites are not interchangeable. Gaydon, St Athan, and Newport Pagnell are real commutes from each other, and most roles are anchored to a single site. Confirm location expectations early and be honest about what you can sustain.
  • Commercial judgement, even in technical roles. The Hallmark turnaround is value-led. Engineers who can articulate why a design choice helps margin, parts commonality, or programme schedule, not just performance, are valued more than pure performance maximalists.

Frequently Asked Questions

What ATS does Aston Martin use for job applications?
Aston Martin Lagonda uses PageUp People for its road-car careers portal at careers.astonmartin.com, which redirects to the PageUp tenant URL containing /cwuat/. The application form is server-rendered and works reliably across browsers. Note that the Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team operates a separate careers portal at astonmartinf1.com and is run by AMR GP Limited - a different legal entity.
Where is Aston Martin headquartered and where will I work?
The corporate and product development headquarters is at Banbury Road, Gaydon in Warwickshire, England. Sports car assembly (Vantage, DB12, DBS, Vanquish) happens at Gaydon. The DBX SUV is built at a purpose-built factory in St Athan, South Wales. Heritage restoration, Aston Martin Works, and Q by Aston Martin bespoke commissioning continue at the historic Newport Pagnell site in Buckinghamshire. Most roles are anchored to a single site - confirm location expectations during the recruiter screen.
Is the Aston Martin F1 team part of the same company?
No. The Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team is operated by AMR GP Limited, a separate British company based at Silverstone that licenses the Aston Martin name. It shares ownership through Lawrence Stroll's interests but is a distinct legal entity with its own HR, careers portal, and hiring process. If you want to work in Formula One, apply through astonmartinf1.com, not the AML road-car portal.
Is Aston Martin a stable employer to apply to in 2026?
We have to be honest here. In October 2025 the company announced a restructuring that includes up to 20% workforce reduction, a 15% cut to five-year capital expenditure, and a deferral of the first fully electric Aston Martin into the 2030s. Full-year 2025 results showed a £259.2 million operating loss. New CEO Adrian Hallmark has set an 18-month target to sustainable profitability. The opportunity is real - working on iconic products inside an active turnaround - but the risk is also real. Make sure you go in with eyes open.
Who is the CEO of Aston Martin and what is his strategy?
Adrian Hallmark became Chief Executive Officer in September 2024 after seven years as Chairman and CEO of Bentley Motors, where he delivered consistent profitability. His Aston Martin strategy emphasises value over volume, more derivatives of existing models in the mould of the Porsche 911 lineup, deeper hybridisation, and a deferred BEV launch into the 2030s. Lawrence Stroll remains Executive Chairman and the controlling shareholder through the Yew Tree Consortium.
What kinds of engineering roles does Aston Martin hire for?
The active hiring categories at Gaydon include Electric & Hybrid Powertrain, Body, Electrical & Electronics, Chassis, Vehicle Attributes (NVH, durability, dynamics), Software (embedded, AUTOSAR, infotainment integration with Mercedes-Benz technology), Programme Management, and CAD specialists in CATIA V5 and NX. Manufacturing and skilled trades roles (auto electricians, trim and final, paint, body) cluster at Gaydon and St Athan.
Does Aston Martin sponsor work visas?
Selectively, for genuinely scarce skills - specific powertrain calibration, advanced electronics, motorsport composites, or rare manufacturing crafts. The majority of road-car requisitions require existing UK right to work. Check the screening questions on the requisition before you invest time in the application; PageUp will filter out applicants who answer 'no' to a UK right-to-work question on visa-restricted roles.
How long does the Aston Martin hiring process take?
Plan for six to ten weeks from application to offer. Recruiter screen in week two to four, technical and competency rounds in week four to seven, final stage and site visit in week six to nine, offer in week eight to ten. Senior leadership and motorsport-adjacent roles can run longer. Production and skilled trades roles are typically faster, often closing within four to six weeks of application.
What is the dress code for an Aston Martin interview?
Business or smart business for the first interview, regardless of the role. Suits remain standard at corporate and management level; smart shirts and trousers are acceptable for engineering and trades roles. The site visit at Gaydon or St Athan can be slightly more relaxed, but err formal until the recruiter explicitly tells you otherwise. Aston Martin is a brand built on visual standards, and how you present yourself is read as a signal of how you would represent the company.
How can ResumeGeni help me apply to Aston Martin?
ResumeGeni generates ATS-friendly CVs in clean single-column .docx and PDF formats that parse cleanly through PageUp People. The job-tailoring feature aligns your CV language to the specific Aston Martin requisition - matching terms like CATIA V5, IATF 16949, ISO 26262, AUTOSAR, ASPICE, or specific subsystem names - which is critical because PageUp's keyword matching is strict on synonyms. We also help structure quantified bullets that highlight luxury, motorsport, or low-volume manufacturing experience in the format AML hiring managers respond to.

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