Senior Digital Project Manager
WPP Production · New York, United States · 1 mo ago
HybridAdvertising$60k–$140k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications?, Skills?, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must include only sections with real content. The posting includes: About WPP Production (intro) but not needed as heading? The instruction: use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading. So we need sections like About the role (maybe summarizing description of role). The posting includes "What does a Senior Project Manager for Hex do at WPP Production?" That's description of role. So we can put that under
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading. So we need sections like About the role (maybe summarizing description of role). The posting includes "What does a Senior Project Manager for Hex do at WPP Production?" That's description of role. So we can put that under About the role
with paragraphs.
Responsibilities: there is a list "Key Responsibilities include:" then bullet points. We'll output - each.
Requirements: there is a section "Requirements" with bullet points (Scope Management etc). We'll output
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Qualifications: maybe not separate; but we have "Experience:" etc under Requirements? Actually after Requirements there is "Experience:" etc. Could treat as Qualifications. But we can combine? The instruction: prefer few substantive sections. We have Responsibilities and Requirements. Also we have Pay: there is salary range. Also Benefits: mention "We offer a competitive benefits package, click here for more details." That's vague but it's a statement about benefits. Should we include Benefits section? It says "We offer a competitive benefits package, click here for more details." That's not specific but it's a statement. The rule: never create Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. It does state that there is a competitive benefits package. So we can include Benefits section with that sentence.
Schedule: there is "A Hybrid working model ... teams in the office around four days a week." That's schedule info. So we can include Schedule section.
Qualifications: maybe we can skip if not distinct. But we have "Experience:" etc which could be qualifications. However we already have Requirements covering experience. Could treat Requirements as qualifications. But we already have Requirements section. Might be okay to have only Responsibilities, Requirements, Pay, Benefits, Schedule. Also About the role.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO, data, privacy, etc. Remove those.
We must preserve all substantive information. So we need to include the description about WPP Production, About WPP, hybrid model? The hybrid model is schedule. The About WPP Production and About WPP maybe not needed as separate sections but could be part of About the role? The instruction: About the role heading for role description. The intro about WPP Production and WPP is company overview, not role. Could we include it under About the role? Might be okay but maybe better to include as a separate section? Not listed as allowed headings. Only those headings allowed. So we should fold company overview into About the role paragraph or maybe omit? The rule: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep that info somewhere. If we only have About the role section, we can include company overview there as part of role description. That's acceptable.
Thus About the role paragraph(s) will include: About WPP Production description, About WPP description, Hybrid working model? Actually hybrid model is schedule, but we could mention it there too but better to put in Schedule section.
We'll produce:
About the role
About WPP Production ...
About WPP ...
The Senior Digital Project Manager plays a pivotal role ...
(the description of role)
Then Responsibilities.
Then Requirements.
Then Pay: include salary range.
Then Benefits: mention competitive benefits package.
Then Schedule: hybrid model.
We must not include any extra sections like Qualifications, Skills.
Make sure to not include any filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We must not include any markdown fences.
Let's craft.
Need to ensure we keep all bullet points.
Responsibilities bullets: list them exactly as in posting.
Let's extract:
- AI & Frontier Tech Delivery: 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.
- Project Leadership: 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.
- Financial Control: Manage projects with at least a £250K budget, ensuring rigorous financial tracking, resource allocation, and reconciliation.
- Technical Translation: 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.
- Agile Enablement: 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.
- Subject Matter Expertise: 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.
- Team Mentorship: Support and mentor more junior members of the team, training them on frontier project lifecycles and emergent workflow best practices.
- Stakeholder Management: Represent HEX Studio to clients, brand partners, and broader WPP agencies, ensuring clear communication, education, and alignment on frontier production capabilities.
- Closure & Documentation: Oversee project closure documentation to ensure learnings from R&D, pilot programs, and AI workflows are captured and scaled across the wider network.
Requirements bullets: list them.
From "All Project Managers must demonstrate proven capability in the following areas:" then list:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Resource Management: The ability to task-manage globally distributed, highly specialized technical and creative project teams.
- Communication Management: The ability to link people, highly technical ideas, and creative visions seamlessly throughout a project life cycle.
- Risk Management: The ability to identify, analyze, and properly respond to project risks, particularly those associated with emerging technologies, IP, and beta-phase software.
- SCRUM/Agile: The ability to use Agile/Scrum methodologies fluidly within a creative technology and R&D environment.
- Client Servicing: The ability to guide, educate, and manage client needs through the entire lifecycle of pioneering tech projects.
- Technical Literacy: Strong practical understanding of AI models, their application in creative production, and familiarity with real-time 3D/gaming pipelines (Unreal Engine/Unity) and CGI.
- Experience: Minimum 5+ years of Digital Project Management/Production experience.
- Creative Tech Agency Experience: Experience working in digital, innovation, or creative production agencies on large global accounts.
- Decoupled & Collaborative Ecosystems: Experience working in a decoupled environment and collaborating effectively with other agencies, third-party developers, and tech platforms.
- Enterprise Tech & Content Engines: Strong knowledge of Enterprise Content Management systems, DAMs, and CRM systems. Experience delivering large-scale technology projects, innovation workstreams, and pioneering digital products.
- Global Teams: Proven experience managing globally distributed, multi-disciplinary project teams.
Then "Desirable Skills" list: we could include under Skills section? But we are not supposed to create Skills unless posting has real specific content. It does have Desirable Skills. Could create a Skills section. But the instruction: prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. Could we incorporate Desirable Skills into Requirements? Might be okay to add a Skills section. However we already have Requirements covering many. The Desirable Skills are separate: Cross-office and international project management experience. Knowledge of a foreign language. Copywriting/Editing skills, particularly for technical documentation. Test Management & Execution – Understanding of QA practices.
We could add a Skills section with those. But we must not create sections with filler. This is substantive. So we can add Skills.
But we already have many sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills, Pay, Benefits, Schedule. That's many but each substantive.
We must not include Qualifications if not needed.
Let's decide to include Skills.
Now Pay: we have "The base salary for this position at the time of this posting may range as listed below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, click here for more details. US Pay Range $60,000—$140,000 USD"
We'll put Pay section with that sentence and range.
Benefits: we have "We offer a competitive benefits package, click here for more details." Already mentioned in Pay paragraph but we can put Benefits section with that sentence.
Schedule: Hybrid working model paragraph.
Now About the role paragraph(s) need to include the company overview and role description.
Let's craft:
About WPP Production - 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.
About 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. For more information, visit WPP.com.
A Hybrid working model - 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.
Wait but schedule we will put in Schedule section, so maybe we shouldn't duplicate. Better to keep schedule separate. So we can omit hybrid from About the role and put in Schedule.
Thus About the role will contain only the company overview and role description (what does a Senior Project Manager for Hex do...). Let's include that.
Role description paragraph: "What does a Senior Project Manager for Hex do at WPP Production? 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. To learn more about the Hex Studio: https://www.wpp.com/en/news/wpp-launches-hex-creating-a-new-kind-of-talent-pipeline-designed-for-the-ai-era. 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
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Qualifications: maybe not separate; but we have "Experience:" etc under Requirements? Actually after Requirements there is "Experience:" etc. Could treat as Qualifications. But we can combine? The instruction: prefer few substantive sections. We have Responsibilities and Requirements. Also we have Pay: there is salary range. Also Benefits: mention "We offer a competitive benefits package, click here for more details." That's vague but it's a statement about benefits. Should we include Benefits section? It says "We offer a competitive benefits package, click here for more details." That's not specific but it's a statement. The rule: never create Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. It does state that there is a competitive benefits package. So we can include Benefits section with that sentence.
Schedule: there is "A Hybrid working model ... teams in the office around four days a week." That's schedule info. So we can include Schedule section.
Qualifications: maybe we can skip if not distinct. But we have "Experience:" etc which could be qualifications. However we already have Requirements covering experience. Could treat Requirements as qualifications. But we already have Requirements section. Might be okay to have only Responsibilities, Requirements, Pay, Benefits, Schedule. Also About the role.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO, data, privacy, etc. Remove those.
We must preserve all substantive information. So we need to include the description about WPP Production, About WPP, hybrid model? The hybrid model is schedule. The About WPP Production and About WPP maybe not needed as separate sections but could be part of About the role? The instruction: About the role heading for role description. The intro about WPP Production and WPP is company overview, not role. Could we include it under About the role? Might be okay but maybe better to include as a separate section? Not listed as allowed headings. Only those headings allowed. So we should fold company overview into About the role paragraph or maybe omit? The rule: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep that info somewhere. If we only have About the role section, we can include company overview there as part of role description. That's acceptable.
Thus About the role paragraph(s) will include: About WPP Production description, About WPP description, Hybrid working model? Actually hybrid model is schedule, but we could mention it there too but better to put in Schedule section.
We'll produce:
About the role
About WPP Production ...
About WPP ...
The Senior Digital Project Manager plays a pivotal role ...
(the description of role) Then Responsibilities. Then Requirements. Then Pay: include salary range. Then Benefits: mention competitive benefits package. Then Schedule: hybrid model. We must not include any extra sections like Qualifications, Skills. Make sure to not include any filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We must not include any markdown fences. Let's craft. Need to ensure we keep all bullet points. Responsibilities bullets: list them exactly as in posting. Let's extract: - AI & Frontier Tech Delivery: 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. - Project Leadership: 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. - Financial Control: Manage projects with at least a £250K budget, ensuring rigorous financial tracking, resource allocation, and reconciliation. - Technical Translation: 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. - Agile Enablement: 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. - Subject Matter Expertise: 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. - Team Mentorship: Support and mentor more junior members of the team, training them on frontier project lifecycles and emergent workflow best practices. - Stakeholder Management: Represent HEX Studio to clients, brand partners, and broader WPP agencies, ensuring clear communication, education, and alignment on frontier production capabilities. - Closure & Documentation: Oversee project closure documentation to ensure learnings from R&D, pilot programs, and AI workflows are captured and scaled across the wider network. Requirements bullets: list them. From "All Project Managers must demonstrate proven capability in the following areas:" then list: - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Resource Management: The ability to task-manage globally distributed, highly specialized technical and creative project teams. - Communication Management: The ability to link people, highly technical ideas, and creative visions seamlessly throughout a project life cycle. - Risk Management: The ability to identify, analyze, and properly respond to project risks, particularly those associated with emerging technologies, IP, and beta-phase software. - SCRUM/Agile: The ability to use Agile/Scrum methodologies fluidly within a creative technology and R&D environment. - Client Servicing: The ability to guide, educate, and manage client needs through the entire lifecycle of pioneering tech projects. - Technical Literacy: Strong practical understanding of AI models, their application in creative production, and familiarity with real-time 3D/gaming pipelines (Unreal Engine/Unity) and CGI. - Experience: Minimum 5+ years of Digital Project Management/Production experience. - Creative Tech Agency Experience: Experience working in digital, innovation, or creative production agencies on large global accounts. - Decoupled & Collaborative Ecosystems: Experience working in a decoupled environment and collaborating effectively with other agencies, third-party developers, and tech platforms. - Enterprise Tech & Content Engines: Strong knowledge of Enterprise Content Management systems, DAMs, and CRM systems. Experience delivering large-scale technology projects, innovation workstreams, and pioneering digital products. - Global Teams: Proven experience managing globally distributed, multi-disciplinary project teams. Then "Desirable Skills" list: we could include under Skills section? But we are not supposed to create Skills unless posting has real specific content. It does have Desirable Skills. Could create a Skills section. But the instruction: prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. Could we incorporate Desirable Skills into Requirements? Might be okay to add a Skills section. However we already have Requirements covering many. The Desirable Skills are separate: Cross-office and international project management experience. Knowledge of a foreign language. Copywriting/Editing skills, particularly for technical documentation. Test Management & Execution – Understanding of QA practices. We could add a Skills section with those. But we must not create sections with filler. This is substantive. So we can add Skills. But we already have many sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills, Pay, Benefits, Schedule. That's many but each substantive. We must not include Qualifications if not needed. Let's decide to include Skills. Now Pay: we have "The base salary for this position at the time of this posting may range as listed below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, click here for more details. US Pay Range $60,000—$140,000 USD" We'll put Pay section with that sentence and range. Benefits: we have "We offer a competitive benefits package, click here for more details." Already mentioned in Pay paragraph but we can put Benefits section with that sentence. Schedule: Hybrid working model paragraph. Now About the role paragraph(s) need to include the company overview and role description. Let's craft:About WPP Production - 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.
About 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. For more information, visit WPP.com.
A Hybrid working model - 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.
Wait but schedule we will put in Schedule section, so maybe we shouldn't duplicate. Better to keep schedule separate. So we can omit hybrid from About the role and put in Schedule. Thus About the role will contain only the company overview and role description (what does a Senior Project Manager for Hex do...). Let's include that. Role description paragraph: "What does a Senior Project Manager for Hex do at WPP Production? 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. To learn more about the Hex Studio: https://www.wpp.com/en/news/wpp-launches-hex-creating-a-new-kind-of-talent-pipeline-designed-for-the-ai-era. 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