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.

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 Purpose

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 Construction: Code and deploy autonomous, multi-agent AI loops designed to automate high-friction campaign workflows—such as rapid brief-to-prompt conversion, auto-trafficking preparation, and programmatic creative variation.

• API Stitching & Orchestration: Connect WPP Open’s core AI engines directly to campaign tools, platform APIs (Google Ads, YouTube, TikTok), and the creative technologist's prototypes via lightweight backend APIs.

• WPP Open Customization & UI/UX Enhancement: Build custom front-end interfaces and wrappers to make the complex backend capabilities of WPP Open feel friction-free, intuitive, and highly usable for our day-to-day media and strategy teams.

• Rapid Prototyping & Live Sprint Debugging: Execute real-time debugging and hotfixes on live agentic tools to keep the squad moving at maximum velocity.

• Ecosystem Adaptation: Actively interfaces with the central WPP Open product teams to pull down new features, provide direct feedback from the Google account trenches, and customize those tools for immediate local market deployment.

Desired Skills and Experiences

• Software Engineering Foundation: A minimum of 5 years of applied experience in software engineering, rapid prototyping, or technical solutions engineering.

• Agentic AI & LLM Orchestration: At least 2 years of hands-on experience building autonomous agent workflows, multi-step orchestration loops, context engineering, and secure tool-calling schemas (e.g., Anthropic API, Vertex AI, Gemini).

• Full-Stack & UI Agility: Exceptional coding and scripting capabilities utilizing Python, TypeScript, Node.js, or Go, paired with strong front-end web development skills (HTML, CSS, modern JavaScript frameworks) to build highly usable interfaces.

• Platform & API Integration: Proven track record of connecting unstructured data types (like prompt strings, images, and video blobs) across disparate platform APIs.

Key Competencies

• WPP Open Optimization: The unique ability to navigate, hack, and extend the WPP Open platform, making its underlying capabilities hyper-accessible and tailored to the specific operational needs of the Google media squad.

• Agentic "Tool-Use" Mastery: Expert capability in training AI models to safely execute real-world actions (e.g., triggering a script, querying an API, or updating a UI) based on dynamic prompt conditions.

• Velocity Over Perfection: A "builder" mindset that thrives on creating scrappy, highly innovative, and functional prototypes over short horizons, completely unburdened by the need to build permanent corporate infrastructure.

• Extreme Agile Resilience: Thriving in highly volatile, fast-paced sprint environments where the tech stack changes rapidly, requirements are ambiguous, and code must be shipped in days, not months.
  

  Life at WPP Media & Benefits  

  Our passion for shaping the next era of media is powered by our commitment to Be Extraordinary, investing in our employees to inspire transformational creativity. We also Lead Optimistically, firmly believing in and Championing Growth and Development for every individual. This commitment allows WPP Media employees to leverage the extensive global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, build vital professional connections, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising.  

  We Create an Open environment built on trust and respect, where everyone feels they belong and has opportunities to progress. This inclusive culture is fostered through a variety of employee resource groups and frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our comprehensive benefits package reflects this commitment, including competitive medical, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.    

  WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection in this open and supportive environment. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.  

  Please note that while our philosophy is the same across WPP, benefits may vary by office/country.