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As a unified organisation, dentsu brings together deep expertise across media, creative and customer experience to deliver integrated solutions that drive meaningful progress for clients and society.\nOur data and technology team is responsible for building and maintaining industry leading solutions to support marketing, media buying, creative, and customer experience teams to create more meaningful impact.\nAs Director (AI Engineering) you’ll work closely with our Executive Director of Engineering to establish AI engineering as a discipline. This will start with a new programme of work to build a portfolio of AI-driven marketing products that that will deliver value for our clients. 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