SVP, Head of Marketing Performance

WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.  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.    We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise.   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.    For more information, visit WPP.com.   Why we're hiring: The Head of Infrastructure, Data & Technology Solutions is responsible for establishing and coordinating the infrastructure standards, operating model, governance, and cross-cutting platform capabilities required to run DTS products securely, reliably and consistently.  DTS operates a federated model, where specialist product and platform teams retain autonomy for how they build, deploy and operate their own environments. The Head of Infrastructure ensures those teams operate within a common set of DTS standards for reliability, observability, security, deployment control, cost visibility, operational readiness and resilience.  The role will work closely with the CTO, Chief Architect, SVP Data Collaboration Infrastructure, SVP Security and Compliance, TechOps, Engineering, Product, Enterprise Technology and platform leads across InfoSum, Open Intelligence, Resolve and other DTS capabilities.  The purpose of the role is to create alignment and visibility across infrastructure and providing the autonomy needed by specialist teams to operate according to agreed standards and principles.   What you'll be doing: 1. Infrastructure standards and operating model Define and maintain the common infrastructure standards that DTS platforms must meet.  This includes:  * Working with DTS leadership to define infrastructure principles, minimum standards and operating expectations.  * Establishing standards for reliability, observability, deployment governance, security, resilience, cost visibility and operational readiness.  * Ensuring standards are practical and can be adopted by different DTS platform teams.  * Creating a clear infrastructure operating model that distinguishes between central standards and product-team autonomy.  * Ensuring infrastructure standards are aligned with DTS architecture, security, product and commercial priorities.    1. Federated infrastructure governance Coordinate a federated infrastructure model across DTS.  This includes:  * Ensuring InfoSum, Open Intelligence, Resolve and other platform teams can operate their own infrastructure while meeting common DTS requirements.  * Avoiding unnecessary centralisation that would slow down specialist teams or remove useful autonomy.  * Defining where common tooling or central coordination is required.  * Ensuring each product/platform team has clear infrastructure ownership and accountability.  * Creating mechanisms to monitor whether teams are operating within agreed standards.    1. Alignment with DTS leadership Ensure infrastructure decisions are aligned with senior DTS leadership and broader platform strategy.  This includes:  * Taking direction from the CTO, Chief Architect, SVP Data Collaboration Infrastructure and SVP Security and Compliance on infrastructure priorities.  * Translating DTS architecture and security principles into practical infrastructure standards.  * Working with DTS leaders to resolve trade-offs between autonomy, standardisation, cost, security and reliability.  * Ensuring infrastructure decisions support the wider DTS platform direction.  * Providing leadership with visibility of infrastructure risks, gaps, dependencies and progress.    1. Deployment governance and change visibility Create common deployment governance and production change visibility across DTS.  This includes:  * Defining minimum standards for production deployment processes.  * Establishing central visibility of who deployed what, when and where.  * Supporting release gates, change records and deployment auditability.  * Enabling teams to use their own deployment tooling while reporting into a common deployment record.  * Supporting mechanisms to pause or control deployments during high-risk or sensitive periods.  * Ensuring deployment activity can be correlated with incidents, outages and platform instability.    1. Observability,monitoringand operational visibility  Define common observability and monitoring expectations across DTS platforms.  This includes:  * Establishing standards for logging, metrics, tracing, alerting and dashboards.  * Ensuring product teams provide the right operational and security telemetry.  * Supporting cross-platform visibility for incidents, chained attacks, service degradation and performance issues.  * Working with Security Operations on SIEM, SOC and threat detection requirements.  * Ensuring infrastructure and application events are visible to the right operational teams.    1. Reliability,resilienceand operational readiness  Ensure DTS platforms meet agreed reliability and resilience expectations.  This includes:  * Defining standards for service-level objectives, availability, recovery, incident readiness and operational maturity.  * Working with platform teams to ensure services are designed and operated to appropriate reliability levels.  * Supporting disaster recovery, business continuity and operational readiness requirements.  * Ensuring teams have appropriate runbooks, escalation paths and incident response processes.  * Tracking recurring operational issues and ensuring they are addressed through the appropriate teams.    1. Infrastructure security alignment Work with Security and Compliance to ensure infrastructure standards support DTS security requirements.  This includes:  * Ensuring infrastructure standards reflect security requirements around access control, network exposure, ingress/egress, secrets, logging and hardening.  * Working with the Cloud and Platform Security Lead where applicable.  * Ensuring teams provide evidence that required infrastructure security controls are in place.  * Supporting the reduction of unnecessary public exposure across DTS services.  * Ensuring infrastructure governance supports audit, compliance and client assurance requirements.    1. Cost visibility and capacity oversight Establish infrastructure cost transparency and capacity visibility across DTS.  This includes:  * Defining standards for cloud cost reporting and allocation.  * Ensuring teams can report infrastructure cost by product, platform, client or workload where appropriate.  * Identifying areas of duplication, waste or inefficient infrastructure use.  * Supporting capacity planning across growing DTS platforms and AI/data workloads.  * Providing leadership with clear visibility of infrastructure cost drivers and optimisation opportunities.    1. Relationship with TechOps Work closely with the TechOps function while maintaining clear ownership boundaries.  TechOps is responsible for day-to-day delivery operations, environment support, release coordination and operational support to engineering teams.  The Head of Infrastructure is responsible for defining infrastructure standards, governance, shared visibility, reliability expectations and cross-DTS platform coordination.  This includes:  * Partnering with TechOps to ensure infrastructure standards are practical in delivery workflows.  * Using TechOps feedback to identify recurring operational issues and improvement opportunities.  * Avoiding duplication of TechOps responsibilities.  * Ensuring delivery operations and infrastructure governance operate as a joined-up capability.  * Clarifying when issues should be handled by TechOps, product engineering, infrastructure teams, security or DTS leadership.    1. Common tooling and shared platform capabilities Identify and coordinate shared tooling where it benefits DTS.  This includes:  * Assessing where common tooling should be used for deployment governance, observability, incident management, cost reporting, infrastructure inventory and operational reporting.  * Avoiding unnecessary standardisation where teams need specialist tooling.  * Supporting common integration points rather than forcing all teams onto identical infrastructure stacks.  * Defining central capabilities that allow teams to remain autonomous while providing DTS-wide visibility.  * Working with Architecture and Infrastructure teams to introduce shared services where there is clear value.      Who you'll be working with: The Head of Infrastructure will be accountable for:  * Common DTS infrastructure standards and operating model.  * Federated infrastructure governance across DTS platforms.  * Alignment of infrastructure activity with DTS leadership direction.  * Deployment governance and production change visibility.  * Observability, monitoring and operational visibility standards.  * Reliability, resilience and operational readiness expectations.  * Infrastructure cost visibility and reporting.  * Clear distinction and partnership between Infrastructure and TechOps.  * Infrastructure alignment with DTS architecture, security and compliance requirements.  * Ensuring platform teams retain autonomy while meeting common DTS standards.    What you'll need: The successful candidate will have:  * Multiple years of experience overseeing infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, cloud operations or technology operations leadership.  * Strong understanding of cloud platforms, deployment models, observability, reliability, infrastructure governance and operational resilience.  * Experience working in federated or matrixed technology organisations.  * Ability to define standards and operating models without over-centralising delivery.  * Strong understanding of CI/CD, deployment governance, incident management, monitoring, logging and production operations.  * Good knowledge of infrastructure security, access control, network exposure, cloud posture and operational risk.  * Ability to influence senior technical leaders and product/platform teams without relying solely on line authority.  * Strong stakeholder management skills across Engineering, Architecture, Security, Product, TechOps and Enterprise Technology.  * Ability to balance autonomy, consistency, security, reliability and delivery speed.  * Clear communication skills and the ability to create practical standards that teams can adopt.    Leadership expectations  The Head of Infrastructure is expected to:  * Act as a coordinator and enabler, not a central blocker.  * Respect the autonomy of specialist product and platform teams.  * Create clarity around infrastructure standards and expectations.  * Work closely with DTS senior leadership and take direction from agreed architecture and security strategy.  * Build trust with TechOps, Engineering, Infrastructure, Security and Product teams.  * Challenge teams where infrastructure practices create risk, poor visibility or operational weakness.  * Avoid unnecessary centralisation while reducing fragmentation where it creates risk.  * Provide clear reporting on infrastructure health, cost, reliability and operational readiness.    Success measures  Success in the role will be measured by:  * DTS having clear and adopted infrastructure standards.  * Product and platform teams operating autonomously while meeting common DTS expectations.  * Improved visibility of deployments and production changes across DTS.  * Better observability and monitoring across DTS platforms.  * Clearer understanding of infrastructure ownership and operational accountability.  * Improved ability to correlate incidents with deployments and infrastructure changes.  * Reduced infrastructure fragmentation where it creates operational, security or cost risk.  * Improved infrastructure cost transparency.  * Stronger alignment between Infrastructure, TechOps, Security, Architecture and Engineering.  * Leadership having confidence in the reliability, visibility and governability of DTS infrastructure.  Who you are: You're open: 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. You're optimistic: We believe 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. You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.   What we'll give you: Passionate, inspired people – We aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work. Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry. Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge? #LI-Hybrid  We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve 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. WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular 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. PLEASE READ OUR PRIVACY NOTICE (HTTPS://WWW.WPP.COM/EN/CAREERS/WPP-PRIVACY-POLICY-FOR-RECRUITMENT) FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW WE PROCESS THE INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE.

WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.  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.    We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise.   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.    For more information, visit WPP.com.   About Data & Technology Solutions  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 data-driven solutions and technology product to power marketing transformation.   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.  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.    About WPP Media Solutions:    Our proprietary, opt-in media solutions give clients access to unique advantages and cutting-edge capabilities. Through a single point of access to addressable media, we've built on premium inventory and leveraged universal customer signals. We enable cross-channel storytelling, cross-platform AI optimization, and robust business impact measurement to maximize campaign effectiveness. Further information can be found here - Our Proprietary Solutions      WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR    We’re seeking a dynamic product leader with a proven track record in AdTech who can set vision, drive innovation, and deliver measurable business outcomes at scale. You bring deep expertise in programmatic ad management, agentic technology, and machine learning, and you know how to build and inspire high-performing product teams. You thrive in complex, fast-moving environments, partnering across product, engineering, data science, and commercial functions to create differentiated Media solutions for global clients. Your industry network is strong, your understanding of AdTech financials is sharp, and you’re passionate about leveraging data and intelligence, to shape the future of media products.   We are seeking a visionary, dynamic product leader with a proven track record in AdTech who can set a bold product vision, drive AI-led innovation, and deliver measurable business outcomes at scale.  As the SVP of Product for WPP Media Solutions, you will be a strategic translator. You possess the unique ability to partner with our Global Media Solutions team and key regional solutions markets, deeply understand their business priorities, and translate their commercial strategies into a future-facing, AI-driven product vision and roadmap.  You thrive in a "dual-horizon" mindset. You have the operational discipline to ensure our current product suites are successfully deployed and evolved to sustain ongoing commercial success, while simultaneously pioneering next-generation, agentic, and machine learning-driven capabilities that will propel our solutions into the AI Era. You are an expert at navigating complex, fast-moving global environments, partnering effortlessly across product, engineering, data science, and commercial functions. Your industry network is strong, your understanding of AdTech financials is sharp, and you are deeply passionate about leveraging data and intelligence to shape the future of media products.    WHAT YOU WILL DO    Market Translation & AI Strategy    * Translate Global Strategy to Product Vision: Partner closely with the Global Media Solutions team and key solutions markets to understand their local and global business priorities, translating their commercial needs into a unified, future-facing product plan.  * Propel WMS into the AI Era: Formulate and execute an ambitious, AI-driven product strategy that integrates predictive intelligence, automation, and machine learning into the core of our media solutions.  * Balance Evolution & Innovation: Seamlessly look across all business requirements to sustain current commercial success by ensuring existing product suites are deployed and evolved, while simultaneously ideating and building the future product portfolio.    Product Leadership & Team Building  * Lead the Product Management function for WPP Media Solutions, building and mentoring a team of 4–6 Product Managers.  * Develop differentiated products for WMS, driving increased adoption across WPP Media clients.    Strategic Partnerships & Collaboration  * Partner with Product leaders of Open Intelligence, Data Products, and the CPO of WPP Data & Technology Solutions.  * Collaborate closely with the SVP, Product Strategy (Data & Intelligence), SVP, Engineering (WPP Media Solutions), and VP, Data Science (WPP Media Solutions).  * Full partnership with and accountability to the Global Media Solutions team, including Solutions Design and Innovation and Business Strategy.  * Work with Revenue partners at global, regional, and national levels    Roadmap Ownership & Innovation  * Own the Product roadmap for WPP Media Solutions, prioritizing against business goals and outcomes (adoption and net revenues).  * Ideate on future differentiated capabilities across WPP Media, in collaboration with the Global Media Solutions team  * Use Data & Intelligence capabilities to achieve a high degree of outcomes predictability.    WHAT YOU WILL NEED  * 15+ years of experience in AdTech Product Management.  * Deep understanding of programmatic ad management and agentic ad management standards.  * Advanced knowledge in agentic technology and machine learning concepts (especially in AdTech/Martech).  * Strong understanding of AdTech/Programmatic financials.  * Industry network across AdTech companies, Ad Platforms, and Media Owners.  * Basic understanding of AI Technology, AI Embeddings, and applied utilization in AdTech.  * Experience in the US market.  * Knowledge of agency workflows is a plus.  Who you are: You're open: 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. You're optimistic: We believe 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. You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.   What we'll give you: Passionate, inspired people – We aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work. Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry. Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge? #LI-Hybrid  We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve 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. WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular 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. PLEASE READ OUR PRIVACY NOTICE (HTTPS://WWW.WPP.COM/EN/CAREERS/WPP-PRIVACY-POLICY-FOR-RECRUITMENT) FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW WE PROCESS THE INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE.

On

AT A GLANCE You are the Senior Director of Apparel Marketing, reporting directly into the CMO. Your mission is to be the direct brand partner to the Creative Director of apparel, inspire teams across On, champion our culture, and be recognized as a guardian of the Apparel brand portfolio and strategic direction, ensuring all Marketing efforts in Apparel align with the main On priorities, influenced by the external global landscape. * Work Focus: You will define and lead the function-wide brand strategy for Apparel, overseeing multiple complex and strategic initiatives with a core focus on Apparel. This role demands enterprise-level strategic expertise and has a critical, systemic impact throughout On. * Decision-making: You are experienced at driving high-level decisions, acting as the decision maker for the Apparel Brand Management function and playing a key role in executive decision-making. * Scope: Projects and initiatives under your direction have a strategic impact on On’s entire portfolio and long-term direction. You collaborate with the C-suite, senior leadership and are a key stakeholder to the Management Team. * Autonomy: You own the Apparel Brand Management discipline globally, defining operating models and priorities. You are responsible for simplifying complex organizational situations and prioritizing critical work across the enterprise. You play a key role in ensuring synergies across all product categories, marketing channels, and regions. YOUR MISSION Your core mission is to elevate the global On brand by architecting the structure, defining the strategy, and leading the talent required to execute our brand promise across all categories. SET THE ENTERPRISE BRAND VISION & GOVERNANCE * Define the long-term, multi-year architecture for the Apparel Brand Management function, dictating how all category brand leads (including the Head of Brand, Apparel) approach their business to ensure a unified global brand identity. * Align and secure buy-in from the C-suite and all regional Managing Directors on the overarching brand strategy and resource allocation across major product verticals. * Simplify and prioritize the complex portfolio of brand initiatives to focus resources on the highest-value opportunities for On’s sustainable growth. DRIVE ORGANIZATIONAL AND TALENT EXCELLENCE * Serve as the senior organizational leader who coaches, mentors, and directs the Apparel Brand team to raise the bar on strategic thinking and execution quality. You will also influence and drive  * Architect the global operating model for Apparel Brand management, ensuring clear roles, responsibilities, and decision-making rights between product, marketing, and commercial teams globally. * Act as the primary interface between the Apparel Brand function and Executive Leadership, communicating the brand strategy, performance, and talent needs. MEASURE FOR SYSTEMIC EVOLUTION * Establish and mandate the key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics (e.g., brand health, cultural relevance, portfolio value) used across all apparel categories and regions to measure brand success. * Drive a culture of measurement that informs strategic shifts in product investment, market entry, and commercial priorities at the executive level. YOUR STORY You are a recognized executive leader with a track record of driving change and growth at a global scale. You possess the intellectual curiosity and gravitas necessary to challenge the status quo at the highest levels of the organization while fostering a culture of high performance and psychological safety within your team. You see yourself as an enterprise-level strategist, capable of navigating ambiguity and complexity to deliver simple, high-impact organizational solutions. You are a Culture and Talent Catalyst who inspires senior leaders and develops the next generation of leadership. We’d love to hear from people with: * 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in global brand management, brand strategy, or equivalent roles within premium sportswear, fashion, or consumer industries. * A minimum of 8+ years in a senior managerial role, managing a team of Director-level or equivalent leaders and overseeing a complex, multi-category brand portfolio. * Demonstrated ability to architect long-term strategic plans (5-year horizon) and successfully align C-suite, regional presidents, and cross-functional SVP/EVP leadership teams. * Executive-level presence and exceptional presentation skills; comfortable presenting strategy, performance, and organizational recommendations in front of large internal and external audiences. * A high level of intellectual curiosity and a strategic mind balanced with the ability to define simple, executable frameworks for global teams. WHAT WE OFFER  * A challenging role that puts you at the forefront of On's global expansion and brand architecture, offering unparalleled influence on the company's long-term success. * A fair and balanced internal recruiting process with an opportunity to learn about other teams, roles, and challenges. On is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that is fair and inclusive, where all decisions related to recruitment, advancement, and retention are free of discrimination.