Engineering Lead, Data & Technology (General Manager) (AI)

Location: Shanghai, China

Company

hirify.global operates within WPP Media, WPP’s AI-driven media operating unit focused on data, intelligence, partnerships, and personalised marketing at scale.

What you will do

• Lead engineering strategy, architecture, governance, delivery planning, and technology roadmaps for AI, data, media, and marketing platforms in China.
• Build and lead multidisciplinary teams across backend, frontend, AI, data, platform, architecture, and quality engineering.
• Develop integrated platforms, reusable APIs, services, AI agents, orchestration frameworks, and enterprise integrations.
• Integrate and evaluate local and global AI models across text, image, video, audio, reasoning, and multimodal applications.
• Establish retrieval, knowledge, monitoring, guardrail, human-review, security, testing, and operational-readiness practices.
• Adapt global technology to China-specific cloud infrastructure, media platforms, data sources, identity environments, and regulatory requirements.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering, platform development, technology, or a related field.
• Significant experience leading engineering teams and delivering enterprise-grade platforms.
• Strong background in software architecture, cloud platforms, APIs, distributed systems, data platforms, and DevOps.
• Practical experience with AI, machine learning, generative AI, agentic systems, or retrieval-based applications, including model integration, evaluation, monitoring, and risk controls.
• Experience combining workflow, data, analytics, automation, and enterprise integration in products.
• Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills across technical, non-technical, global, and local teams.

Nice to have

• Experience in media, advertising, marketing technology, commerce, or customer data.
• Experience operating within China’s digital, cloud, data, and regulatory environment.
• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Data Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Master’s degree or equivalent advanced qualification.
• Fluent Mandarin and strong professional English.

Culture & Benefits

• Focus on technical excellence, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Close collaboration with global and China product, engineering, data, media, strategy, and client teams.
• Opportunity to improve productivity, quality, media effectiveness, and business outcomes through intelligent workflows.