AI Platforms Enablement Manager

At AKQA (part of WPP) we believe in the imaginative application of art and science to create beautiful ideas, products and services. With an entrepreneurial and collaborative approach, we design adaptive digital services and applications that capture the imagination, delivering impressive returns for our clients.

We are seeking a driven and strategic AI Platforms Enablement Manager within AKQA. This highly visible role is global in scope and focuses on driving the internal adoption and utilization of our AI tools, primarily WPP Open, Cursor, Vercel v0, Replit, Google AI Studio, and Claude. The person in this role will act as a bridge between the WPP Open product team and our agency operations, responsible for understanding how the platform can enhance our existing workflows.

The mission is to demonstrate how WPP Open adds speed, value, and creativity to our daily work, ensuring that our teams are maximizing the potential of the tools available to them and enhances our methodology. The primary stakeholder in this function is our Global Chief Strategy Officer.

Additionally, this person will manage the global rollout or consolidation of AI tools to ensure effective usage and efficiency. Part of this function is to understand and plan for usage and that AKQA is maximizing the value being delivered by each tool/partner. The primary stakeholder in this function is our Global Chief Technology Officer. Success in this role will be measured by user growth and engagement.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Evangelism & Adoption: Champion the WPP Open platform within the agency. Understand new features as they are released and effectively communicate their benefits to internal teams.
  • Share best practices, identify market trends, and learn from Studios’ successes and challenges in leveraging and selling WPP Open.
  • Identify Studio Champions to work alongside to scale internal best practices, new ways of working and general WPP Open adoption
• Process Integration: Analyze the operational processes (within the global methodology) currently used at AKQA. Identify specific opportunities where WPP Open can be utilized to improve these workflows.
  • Define, implement and maintain the AKQA Workspace architecture and agentic workflows to ensure regional relevance and global scalability
• Content Creation & Demos: Deliver tangible resources to the team. This includes creating demos and documenting processes that clearly show how the platform adds value, speed, or creativity to current deliverables.
• Global Adaptation: Iterate on the technical implementation and maintain updated process documentation to accommodate the nuances of various regions around the world.
  • Design, implement and maintain agents (aligned to WPP’s governance protocols) to improve and augment each discipline’s productivity and which can also be commercialised to solve client-specific business problems
• Product Migration: Assist the WPP Open product team in helping to migrate new features into the AKQA environments.
  • Gain clear visibility and coordinate efforts around the Open Pro pipeline, avoiding duplicated efforts, focusing on key opportunities and trends.
• Partner with our enterprise technology and IT teams, and AI Transformation Lead to coordinate, calculate, and negotiate the pricing and contracts of our AI tools to minimize duplication, and efficacy of consumption. 

QUALITIES & CHARACTERISTICS

• Recent use cases that demonstrate knowledge of AI concepts and proficiency with AI tools and platforms.
• Exceptional communication skills for translating complex technical information into clear, compelling narratives, and educating teams.
• Skilled in moving initiatives from concept to implementation, and managing multiple priorities in ways that ensure timely delivery.
• A strategic mindset combined with strong business acumen, able to understand overarching business objectives and identify new areas of opportunity.
• Effective leadership and collaboration skills that drive change, foster cross-functional teamwork, and build consensus among diverse stakeholders.
• Able to pivot as needed to meet emerging opportunities and challenges, leading through change with a growth and learning mindset.
• Results-oriented, analytical thinker driven to define and track KPIs, measure effectiveness of initiatives, and prove ROI.

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