About the Role
AKQA, part of WPP, is seeking a Senior Technical Delivery Manager to lead the end-to-end delivery of complex digital and AI-enabled products. This role is crucial in evolving delivery practices, adopting new tools, and integrating AI into product development within a rapidly changing technology landscape. You will collaborate with engineers, architects, and designers to ensure technically sound, scalable solutions are delivered with a focus on product quality and real-world impact.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of complex technical and AI-enabled products.
- Ensure solutions are well-architected, scalable, and built to a high standard.
- Work closely with development, architecture, and design teams to shape and deliver product outcomes.
- Translate product and technical requirements into clear, actionable delivery plans.
- Manage scope, timelines, and budgets while maintaining a strong focus on product quality.
- Identify and manage risks, dependencies, and trade-offs across projects.
- Drive collaboration across multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders.
- Contribute to evolving delivery practices, including adoption of AI tools and new ways of working.
Requirements
- Strong experience delivering complex digital products in a technical environment.
- Understand modern architectures (e.g. composable, headless, cloud-based).
- Experience with Agile delivery and iterative product development.
- Ability to balance delivery discipline with product thinking and quality outcomes.
- Confident stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Proactive, adaptable, and comfortable operating in a fast-changing environment.
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate complexity and bring clarity.
- A genuine interest in AI and emerging technologies, and how they shape product delivery.
- A focus on quality and impact, not just timelines and outputs.
- Ability to challenge thinking constructively to improve outcomes.
- Leads by example, bringing energy, ownership, and momentum to delivery.
Skills
- AI tools
- Agile delivery
- iterative product development
- stakeholder management
- communication skills
- problem-solving
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- At AKQA (part of WPP), our Technology team design and deliver digital products and platforms that define how brands connect with customers.
- 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. For more information, visit WPP.com.
Equal Opportunity
- AKQA 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.
