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WPP Media

AI-native global media services network

Advertising Technology Lead

Data EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeParis, FranceNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Six to ten years of successful experience in the advertising technology (AdTech) and media data ecosystem.
  • Successful experience at a media advertising sales house, media agency, or AdTech solutions publisher.
  • Mastery of digital advertising ecosystems and their integrations.
  • Strong understanding of modern cloud and data architectures, including Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, data modeling, and identity resolution concepts.
  • Fluent English at C1 level or higher is required for daily exchanges with European and global teams.
  • Entrepreneurial mindset, product creativity, and problem-solving orientation.
  • Ability to explain technical concepts clearly to nontechnical audiences and engage them effectively.
  • Collaborative leadership style, with an interest in mentoring and cross-functional work.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and deploy proprietary advertising technologies and products, including intelligent targeting, inventory curation, automation, artificial intelligence integration, and data activation.
  • Imagine, prototype, and launch proprietary advertising products that address client business needs and optimize media investments.
  • Use automation, artificial intelligence, and data processing to streamline campaigns and improve their effectiveness.
  • Collaborate with Broadcast, Audio, and Media Investment business teams to design technology offerings suited to their inventory.
  • Monitor market developments, including third-party cookie deprecation, privacy, universal identifiers, connected television, and retail media.
  • Supervise and optimize multi-source data ingestion flows covering first-, second-, and third-party data.
  • Develop and improve robust data models for advanced analytics, reporting, and activation.
  • Manage the performance of cloud-native data environments, notably Google Cloud Platform and BigQuery.
  • Define and maintain engineering standards, technical pipeline documentation, and third-party API integration architectures.
  • Oversee automated data-flow controls and validation for freshness, completeness, and accuracy.
  • Ensure alignment with taxonomy standards and data governance, security, and privacy policies, including GDPR.
  • Work with Analytics Engineers, Business Intelligence Developers, and Data Analysts to provide reliable, activatable datasets.
  • Manage and develop the operational AdTech team of three employees on a day-to-day basis.
  • Represent France in WPP Europe's Tech Leads community, share best practices, and adapt global technology components to the French market.
  • Explain complex technology concepts to internal consulting teams and advertisers.

Desired Qualifications

  • Knowledge of business intelligence tools such as Looker, Looker Studio, Power BI, or Tableau, or experience with Snowflake, AWS, or Azure.

About the Company

WPP Media

AI-native global media services network

WPP Media is a global media services arm that manages more than $60 billion in annual advertising investments for leading brands. It operates across a network of established agencies (Mindshare, Wavemaker, EssenceMediacom) and combines media planning, data, production, and commerce through its proprietary WPP Open platform. Its Open Intelligence data model uses real-time behavioral signals to drive predictive, faster, and smarter marketing campaigns. The company positions itself as an AI-native media collective, consolidating capabilities under a single technology stack to improve efficiency and scale for advertisers. Its goal is to help clients buy and optimize media more effectively by leveraging integrated data, advanced analytics, and automated execution at scale.

Company size
51-200
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2003

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