Associate Director, Research & Insights

This role brings together and analyzes data from multiple sources to help a major client make better strategic media and communications choices rooted in human insights. The associate director leverages AI tools to automate routine research workflows, uncovers new audience opportunities, and builds insight presentations for internal and external stakeholders. They also lead strategic workshops, develop thought leadership, and support new business pitches with insight analysis.

This role leads research and insights projects for WPP Media, translating business questions into research approaches and analyzing audience, consumer, and marketplace data to develop actionable insights. The Associate Director manages research operations, including vendor contracts and subscriptions, and leverages AI tools and LLMs to enhance analysis and automate workflows. This position requires 6-8+ years of experience in media research or analytics and strong project management skills.

This senior strategic leader turns audience, category, cultural, and performance intelligence into clear growth strategies for clients, leading the development of integrated communications strategies. The director guides major client assignments from problem definition through strategic recommendation, ensuring research, analytics, planning, and activation work together around a distinctive opportunity. They also coach and develop strategists, contribute to new business pitches, and establish learning agendas and measurement approaches with analytics partners.

This Director of Advancement role leads the operationalization of WPP Media's innovation agenda, transforming strategic concepts into structured pilot programs and proof-of-concepts. The role involves testing new AI capabilities, piloting global delivery models, and building data-backed business cases for wider rollout. It requires a blend of strategic thinking, analytical rigor, and project management to navigate ambiguity and drive cross-functional collaboration.

This role manages day-to-day programmatic campaign performance for Amazon across DSPs like DV360 and The Trade Desk, ensuring KPIs are met through optimizations and strategic campaign setup. The manager communicates with internal teams to facilitate client requests and requires 5+ years of programmatic platform exposure and deep knowledge of the programmatic technology stack.

This Business Intelligence Intern supports the Data team by developing and updating dashboards, scripts, and analyses, and consolidating data in Excel. The intern participates in weekly meetings with the Media team. Requires enrollment in a related degree program and knowledge of Excel/Google Sheets; Power BI and Looker Studio are a plus.

This Advertising Technology Lead designs, develops, and deploys proprietary advertising products including smart targeting, inventory curation, automation, and AI integration. The role manages a team of 3 and requires 6-10 years of AdTech experience with strong cloud/data architecture skills (GCP, BigQuery). Fluency in English (C1 minimum) is required.