<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. </strong></p> <p><strong>We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. </strong><br><strong> </strong><br><strong>We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise.</strong><br><strong> </strong><br><strong>Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. </strong><br><strong> </strong><br><strong>For more information, visit <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwpp.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7CErica.Durr%40wpp.com%7C9bf4566a65bc46a48ac008de749116ea%7C150b5e663d884dee83f6ed149b727a00%7C0%7C0%7C639076363668176216%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Q9juosud56XGLThSFZ1NpPZd6FXpJPxV74OeRZWoh%2B4%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">WPP.com.</a></strong><br><strong> </strong></p></div><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Why we're hiring:</strong></span></p> <p>WPP’s Data & Technology Solutions is the WPP’s unified global data products and technology team. We work with our agencies and clients to build data-driven solutions and technology products to power marketing transformation. </p> <p>WPP Open is our AI platform for marketing, it connects marketing professionals, data, tools and AI in a single place. WPP Open is the simplest, safest and fastest way to realize the benefits of scaled AI – delivering better-informed creative ideas faster, at scale and at lower cost.</p> <p>We’re endlessly curious and our team of thinkers, builders, creators and problem solvers are over 2,000 strong, across 20 markets around the world.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>What you'll be doing:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li>Build and ship working systems fast - agentic workflows, data pipelines, interfaces and integrations. All centered on answering a commercial question, not a technical one.</li> <li>Work directly with external partners, clients, internal operational and commercial teams to translate ambiguous problems into deliverable technical outcomes.</li> <li>Build at production-lite quality: moving quickly while incorporating observability, validation, sensible testing and graceful failure rather than creating either disposable prototypes or prematurely over-engineered systems.</li> <li>Build the business case alongside the build: what it's worth, who pays for it, what it costs to scale.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Who you'll be working with:</strong></span></p> <p>Forward Deployed Engineers are hands-on product engineers who work close to clients, publishers and the market. You will combine technical depth with commercial understanding and consultancy-style problem solving: helping to define a problem, building the solution, testing it in a real setting and translating what works into reusable technical capability.</p> <p>This is neither isolated prototyping nor slide-led consulting. You will be accountable from discovery through implementation, field validation and handover.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>What you'll need:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li>5+ years in software engineering, data science or a related field, with a track record of getting things into real use.</li> <li>Strong Python and hands-on cloud experience</li> <li>Demonstrable experience building agentic/LLM systems - tool and structured calling orchestration, evaluation, and a realistic view of what breaks when you try to get production value out of them.</li> <li>Consultancy-style experience gained through consulting, professional services, solutions engineering, forward deployment or an internal business-transformation function.</li> <li>Strong product and commercial judgement, with the ability to communicate technical choices and business implications to technical and non-technical stakeholders.</li> <li>Comfort operating in ambiguity, learning unfamiliar domains quickly and balancing speed with operational credibility.</li> <li>Willingness to travel internationally several times a year and develop a strong working knowledge of media and advertising technology.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Nice to have</strong></p> <ul> <li>Exposure to ad tech or media: ad servers, SSPs/DSPs, programmatic, or order management systems</li> <li>Front-end or dashboarding skills for building demonstrable interfaces</li> </ul> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Who you are:</strong></span></p> <p><strong>You're open<em>:</em> </strong>We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.</p> <p><strong>You're optimistic<em>:</em></strong> <span id="628d56ad5d8a35dab853e65d9daa237c" class="editor-module-hl-green-solid">We believe</span> in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.</p> <p><strong>You're extraordinary:</strong> we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every da