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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.\nWPP 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.\nFor more information, visit wppmedia.com.\nAbout WPP Media\nWPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities. For more information, visit wpp.com.\nWPP Media is WPP’s global media collective. In a world where media is everywhere and in everything, we bring the best platform, people, and partners together to create limitless opportunities for growth. For more information, visit wppmedia.com\nAt WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It’s what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media’s shared core values:\nBe Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity.\nCreate an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust.\nLead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilize the Enterprise.\nRole Overview \nLead AI Engineer IS to drive the next generation of AI capabilities across WPP proprietary creator, influencer, and social commerce platforms. \nThis role combines hands-on AI engineering, product innovation, and technical leadership. The successful candidate will lead the development and deployment of practical AI solutions across influencer intelligence, creator workflows, social commerce, automation, and large-scale content and data analysis. \nThe ideal candidate combines strong engineering capability with product thinking and the ability to rapidly translate ideas into scalable AI features. This role is highly execution-focused and suited for someone who enjoys building production-ready AI systems, experimenting with emerging technologies, and solving real business problems through AI. \nYou will work closely with product, engineering, strategy, and regional market teams to shape and deploy AI-powered features used across APAC and global client initiatives. \nCore Responsibilities \nAI Product Development & Integration \nDesign, develop, and deploy AI-powered features across WPP proprietary platforms. \nBuild practical AI solutions leveraging LLMs, multimodal AI, embeddings, vector search, intelligent workflow orchestration, and AI agents. \nIntegrate AI capabilities into influencer planning, creator discovery, content analysis, workflow automation, reporting, and operational tools. \nCollaborate with product and engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable AI solutions. \nRapidly prototype, test, and iterate AI features for production deployment. \nGenerative AI & LLM Engineering \nBuild and optimize applications using modern AI ecosystems such as OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, Vertex AI, and related frameworks. \nDevelop prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), semantic search, embeddings pipelines, and AI orchestration workflows. \nImprove AI output quality, evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and model performance for production use cases. \nExplore and implement conversational AI, recommendation systems, and intelligent automation solutions. \nEvaluate emerging AI tools, frameworks, and models to identify practical business applications. \nAI Infrastructure & Deployment \nDevelop scalable AI services and APIs for internal platforms and client-facing products. \nSupport deployment, monitoring, optimization, and maintenance of AI systems in production environments. \nWork closely with engineering teams on architecture, cloud deployment, scalability, and security. \nContribute to MLOps / AIOps workflows, CI/CD 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AI, multimodal AI, automation, and applied machine learning. \nContribute ideas that improve product differentiation and operational efficiency. \nTeam Leadership & Collaboration \nMentor and support junior AI engineers and technical team members. \nHelp establish engineering best practices, documentation standards, and scalable development workflows. \nCollaborate cross-functionally with product managers, developers, strategists, and regional stakeholders. \nCommunicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. \nContribute to a culture of experimentation, innovation, and continuous learning. \nDesired Skills & Experience \nTechnical Skills \nStrong proficiency in Python and modern AI development frameworks. \nHands-on experience with LLMs, generative AI systems, embeddings, vector databases, and RAG architectures. \nExperience with OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, Vertex AI, LangChain, or similar AI ecosystems. \nExperience working with APIs, vector databases, embeddings pipelines, and modern AI orchestration frameworks. \nFamiliarity with multimodal AI including image, video, and text analysis. \nExperience building APIs, backend services, and production-ready AI applications. \nExperience with Docker, CI/CD workflows, and scalable deployment practices. \nFamiliarity with SQL, NoSQL, and large-scale data processing workflows. \nExperience contributing to data lake and big data architecture design, with the ability to help define and validate AI-ready data infrastructure that supports scalable AI pipelines, embeddings, semantic search, analytics, and downstream reporting. \nExperience using AI-assisted development tools to improve coding, debugging, testing, documentation, and engineering productivity. \nUnderstanding of cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS. \nExperience \n5+ years in software engineering, machine learning, or applied AI roles, with recent hands-on experience in generative AI and LLM-based applications. \nProven experience 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WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our benefits include competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days. \nWPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.\nWe believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. 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