Director, Solutions Design and Development, Product, UK (Adtech)

Location: London, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is WPP’s AI-driven media operating unit, combining media, data, and partnerships through the WPP Open marketing platform to deliver personalised media outcomes at scale.

What you will do

• Define and maintain product roadmaps aligned with business priorities, client outcomes, operational requirements, and strategic growth opportunities.
• Translate leadership objectives into product initiatives and delivery plans while balancing commercial priorities with platform maturity, scalability, maintainability, and sustainability.
• Partner with Solutions Design, Commercial, Activation, Planning, and Client Leadership teams to shape scalable solutions and improve efficiency, automation, transparency, and client outcomes.
• Lead cross-functional alignment across business, operational, and technical teams, facilitating decisions and acting as the escalation point for prioritisation, dependencies, delivery, and stakeholder management.
• Manage and develop Product Owners through guidance, line management, objective-setting, regular 1:1s, and career progression support.
• Coordinate with the Engineering Lead, Solutions Architect, and Scrum Master on requirements readiness, sprint and release planning, backlog grooming, capacity planning, and UAT governance.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience leading a product management function in a technical or engineering environment.
• Experience in adtech, martech, or data-driven media.
• Experience managing Product Owners or Product Managers, including performance management and development planning.
• Strong command of agile delivery frameworks, including Scrum and Kanban, as well as sprint and release planning.
• Ability to operate at both strategic and tactical levels, including roadmap and commercial alignment, stakeholder leadership, requirements, UAT, and backlog management.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to lead through influence without direct ownership of delivery functions.
• Experience working in a highly matrixed global-to-local organisation and managing external dependencies for deliverables.

Nice to have

• Experience with data infrastructure, reporting, automation, AI, or platform integration products.

Culture & Benefits

• Work across media, data, technology, operations, and client leadership functions.
• Operate within a global-to-local, highly matrixed organisation.
• Champion consistent agile and product-led working practices across the Product Owner team.