AI Technical Lead
About WPP Media WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships – all united by our pioneering agentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth. WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation at scale. Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working. For more information, visit wppmedia.com.About Media Futures Group Media Futures Group (MFG) is a bespoke agency solution for Google. As a global team powered by WPP Media and EssenceMediacom, we deliver strategic, creative, and data-driven media to drive brand and business outcomes. To circumvent institutional inertia and accelerate the adoption of transformative tools, we are launching Speedboat. These are small, highly agile, autonomous innovation squads deployed directly into live, Tier 1 marketing campaigns. Role Summary and Impact The Media Futures Group AI Squad is a small, agile, and autonomous innovation team dedicated to charting the course for AI transformation across APAC for one of WPP’s most important and strategic global technology clients. By seamlessly integrating AI across media, creative, and production, this cross-functional squad delivers cutting-edge innovation and pioneering work to deliver more effective and efficient business outcomes. The team’s mission is to solve specific business challenges by delivering demonstrable proof of AI-enabled marketing improvements, providing strategic guideposts for the broader organization. Utilizing best-in-class tools like WPP Open and Gemini, you will innovate and deliver award-winning creative ideas while building, testing, and scaling solutions that enhance effectiveness, efficiency, and execution for our clients. The Technical Lead serves as the master builder executing the construction within the WPP Open ecosystem. This is a highly tactical, "hands-on-keyboard" development role focused entirely on speed, agility, and fluid customization of WPP Open for the Google account. Rather than building static, long-cycle enterprise software or conducting data analysis, you will rapidly prototype, stitch together, and deploy ephemeral, agentic AI workflows designed to smash execution bottlenecks in 3-4 month long campaign sprints. Your mission is to make WPP Open feel incredibly usable, highly intuitive, and hyper-customized for our internal campaign teams, transforming a global platform into a local campaign accelerator for Google. The technical lead will also assist with bringing visible AI creative ideas to market, taking concepts from the squad and developing workflows & hardened solutions. Responsibilities Agentic Workflow Co...