Lead AI Engineer
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Manila - Philippines
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Job Summary
About WPP Media
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the worlds leading brands. With exceptional talent trusted data and intelligence and world-class partnerships all united by ourpioneeringagentic marketing platform WPP Open we help clients navigate change capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.
WPP Media is WPPs 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.
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About WPP Media
WPP 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 Media is WPPs global media 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
At WPP Media we believe in the power of our culture and our people. Its what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Medias shared core values:
- Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity.
- Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust.
- Lead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilize the Enterprise.
Role Overview
Lead AI EngineerISto drive the next generation of AI capabilities acrossWPPproprietary creator influencer and social commerce platforms.
This 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.
The 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 solvingreal businessproblems through AI.
You 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.
Core Responsibilities
AI Product Development & Integration
- Design develop and deploy AI-powered features acrossWPP proprietaryplatforms.
- Build practical AI solutions leveraging LLMs multimodal AI embeddings vector search intelligent workflow orchestration and AI agents.
- Integrate AI capabilities into influencer planning creator discovery content analysis workflow automation reporting and operational tools.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable AI solutions.
- Rapidly prototype test and iterate AI features for production deployment.
Generative AI & LLM Engineering
- Build andoptimizeapplications using modern AI ecosystems such as OpenAI Gemini Claude Vertex AI and related frameworks.
- Develop prompt engineering retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) semantic search embeddings pipelines and AI orchestration workflows.
- Improve AI output quality evaluation frameworks guardrails and model performance for production use cases.
- Explore and implement conversational AI recommendation systems and intelligent automation solutions.
- Evaluate emerging AI tools frameworks and models toidentifypractical business applications.
AI Infrastructure & Deployment
- Develop scalable AI services and APIs for internal platforms and client-facing products.
- Support deployment monitoring optimization and maintenance of AI systems in production environments.
- Work closely with engineering teams on architecture cloud deployment scalability and security.
- Contribute toMLOps/ AIOps workflows CI/CD pipelines and model deployment best practices.
- Support integration of AI services into existing product ecosystems and workflows.
Data & Platform Integration
- Work with structured and unstructured datasets including social creator video image commerce and campaign data.
- Integrate external APIs data providers and AI services into internal platforms.
- Support development of scalable data pipelines and AI-ready infrastructure.
- Collaborate with product and analytics teams to improve data quality accessibility and AI usability.
- Contribute to the design and validation of AI-ready data lake architecture to ensure it supports scalable AI pipelines analytics and downstream product use cases.
Innovation & R&D
- Continuously evaluate emerging AI technologies tools and frameworks.
- Prototype andvalidatenew AI concepts rapidly.
- Help shape AI roadmap andidentifyhigh-impact opportunities across products and operations.
- Stay current on developments in generative AI multimodal AI automation and applied machine learning.
- Contribute ideas that improve product differentiation and operational efficiency.
Team Leadership & Collaboration
- Mentor and support junior AI engineers and technical team members.
- Helpestablishengineering best practices documentation standards and scalable development workflows.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers developers strategists and regional stakeholders.
- Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Contribute to a culture of experimentation innovation and continuous learning.
Desired Skills & Experience
Technical Skills
- Strongproficiencyin Python and modern AI development frameworks.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs generative AI systems embeddings vector databases and RAG architectures.
- Experience with OpenAI Gemini Claude Vertex AILangChain or similar AI ecosystems.
- Experience working with APIs vector databases embeddings pipelines and modern AI orchestration frameworks.
- Familiarity with multimodal AI including image video and text analysis.
- Experience building APIs backend services and production-ready AI applications.
- Experience with Docker CI/CD workflows and scalable deployment practices.
- Familiarity with SQL NoSQL and large-scale data processing workflows.
- Experience contributing to data lake and big data architecture design with the ability to help define andvalidateAI-ready data infrastructure that supports scalable AI pipelines embeddings semantic search analytics and downstream reporting.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve coding debugging testing documentation and engineering productivity.
- Understanding of cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS.
Experience
- 5 years in software engineering machine learning or applied AI roles with recent hands-on experience in generative AI and LLM-based applications.
- Proven experience building and deploying AI-powered products or features in production environments.
- Experience leading projects or mentoring junior technical resources.
- Strong product mindset with the ability to balance experimentation and execution.
- Comfortable operating in fast-paced product or startup-like environments.
Preferred Experience
- Experience with social media creator economy influencer marketing recommendation systems or commerce platforms.
- Experience with semantic search content intelligence or automation workflows.
- Exposure to AI agents and workflow orchestration systems.
- Experience integrating AI into enterprise or SaaS platforms.
- Familiarity with analytics creator intelligence or content recommendation products is a plus.
Life at WPP Media & Benefits
Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work and were just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. 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.
WPP 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.
We believe the best work happens when were together fostering creativity collaboration and connection. Thats why weve 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.
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