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About the Role

The Senior Digital Project Manager plays a pivotal role in shaping HEX Studio’s evolution as WPP’s frontier studio built for the era of AI and advanced creative technology. The role is responsible for the coordination and delivery of AI-native workflows, CGI production, gaming (Unreal Engine/Unity), and immersive experiences (AR/VR/XR), alongside innovation workstreams like WPP Open Pilots, Production Studio demos, and proofs of concept. This requires a unique ability to translate strategic ambitions into actionable delivery plans, bridging creative, technical, and operational teams to ensure that frontier technologies are deployed effectively, creatively, and responsibly. The Senior Digital Project Manager oversees a portfolio of cutting-edge projects, ensuring that all work is delivered on time, on budget, and to the highest standards of innovation, quality, and client satisfaction.

Responsibilities

Lead the end-to-end project management of AI and advanced technology initiatives—from scoping and planning to execution and delivery—specifically leveraging WPP Open to build and deploy AI-powered production, agentic workflows, CGI, and real-time gaming solutions.
Initiate and execute highly complex creative-tech projects, including scope, budget, and schedule definition. Ensure effective management of scope changes, technical briefing, burn rates, and progress tracking.
Manage projects with at least a £250K budget, ensuring rigorous financial tracking, resource allocation, and reconciliation.
Act as the crucial bridge between client/agency requirements and our specialist frontier teams (AI engineers, prompt engineers, CGI artists, real-time developers, and data engineers), translating complex technical concepts into clear actions and deliverables.
Promote agile, iterative, and rapid-prototyping delivery approaches suited to fast-evolving tech environments; coach internal teams and clients to embrace experimentation, AI-assisted workflows, and rapid learning.
Act as an internal source of expertise in the digital and creative-tech project management field, establishing best practices for managing non-traditional, AI-native creative pipelines.
Support and mentor more junior members of the team, training them on frontier project lifecycles and emergent workflow best practices.
Represent HEX Studio to clients, brand partners, and broader WPP agencies, ensuring clear communication, education, and alignment on frontier production capabilities.
Oversee project closure documentation to ensure learnings from R&D, pilot programs, and AI workflows are captured and scaled across the wider network.

Requirements

Proven capability in Scope Management: The ability to control the work included in a project, ensuring that highly complex, experimental, and fluid tech scopes can be delivered within agreed parameters.
Proven capability in Time Management: The ability to ensure timely completion of projects, adapting traditional sprint and gantt structures to fast-paced AI and real-time 3D pipelines.
Proven capability in Cost Management: The ability to plan, estimate, and control costs so that projects can be completed within the approved budget; this includes resource planning for specialized talent (e.g., Unreal devs, AI specialists) and project reconciliation.
Proven capability in Quality Management: The ability to ensure that project delivery meets the exceptionally high creative and technical standards defined by HEX Studio and our global clients.
Proven capability in Resource Management: The ability to task-manage globally distributed, highly specialized technical and creative project teams.
Proven capability in Communication Management: The ability to link people, highly technical ideas, and creative visions seamlessly throughout a project life cycle.
Proven capability in Risk Management: The ability to identify, analyze, and properly respond to project risks, particularly those associated with emerging technologies, IP, and beta-phase software.
Proven capability in SCRUM/Agile: The ability to use Agile/Scrum methodologies fluidly within a creative technology and R&D environment.
Proven capability in Client Servicing: The ability to guide, educate, and manage client needs through the entire lifecycle of pioneering tech projects.
Strong practical understanding of AI models, their application in creative production, and familiarity with real-time 3D/gaming pipelines (Unreal Engine/Unity) and CGI.
Minimum 5+ years of Digital Project Management/Production experience.
Experience working in digital, innovation, or creative production agencies on large global accounts.
Experience working in a decoupled environment and collaborating effectively with other agencies, third-party developers, and tech platforms.
Strong knowledge of Enterprise Content Management systems, DAMs, and CRM systems.
Experience delivering large-scale technology projects, innovation workstreams, and pioneering digital products.
Proven experience managing globally distributed, multi-disciplinary project teams.

Skills

AI models
AI-native workflows
CGI production
Gaming (Unreal Engine/Unity)
Immersive experiences (AR/VR/XR)
WPP Open Pilots
Production Studio demos
Proofs of concept
Agile
Scrum
Prompt engineering
Real-time development
Data engineering
Enterprise Content Management systems
DAMs
CRM systems
Cross-office project management
International project management
Foreign language knowledge
Copywriting
Editing
Technical documentation
Test Management & Execution
QA practices

Location

Remote

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior
5+ years

Salary/Compensations

$60,000—$140,000 USD

Benefits

Competitive benefits package

About the Company

WPP Production is the unified global production company that brings together all of WPP's content producers, studios and craft experts into one connected organisation. We combine world-class human craft with next generation technology to originate, design, and deliver multi-channel content systems at scale. Built for borderless collaboration and powered by deep craft expertise, we are the production engine designed for today's always on, AI driven marketing world.
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

WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard 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.