Product Lead – Integrations and Orchestrations

Product Lead – Integrations and Orchestrations Overview

WPP is a leading partner for the world’s top brands, combining advanced media intelligence, data solutions, creativity, and strategic counsel to help clients navigate change and achieve growth. The company emphasizes a culture of creativity, belonging, and continuous learning, aiming to attract and develop top talent.

We are currently looking for a Platform Product Lead specializing in Integration & Orchestration. This role is crucial in managing the platform capabilities that connect production workflows, data, and systems across WPP’s global production ecosystem. The successful candidate will work within the Enterprise Technology team and collaborate with various business, product, architecture, and engineering teams to ensure reliable integrations and scalable orchestration capabilities that meet Production Operations requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and prioritize the Integration & Orchestration platform backlog, ensuring alignment with enterprise technology strategy and Production Operations needs.
• Develop and maintain the roadmap for the Integration & Orchestration platform, balancing sustainability, engineering needs, business priorities, and future capabilities.
• Act as the main liaison between business stakeholders, Product, Architecture, Engineering, Operations, and Service teams.
• Convert business and technical requirements into structured epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and non-functional requirements to facilitate effective engineering delivery.
• Create high-quality, engineering-ready requirements that are clear, testable, prioritized, and linked to business outcomes.
• Oversee the delivery of API-first, event-driven, asynchronous, and system-to-system integrations across various platforms.
• Conduct workshops and collaborative sessions to clarify requirements, resolve ambiguities, identify dependencies, and align implementation strategies across teams.
• Clearly communicate priorities, progress, risks, dependencies, and decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Architecture teams to ensure the platform outcomes are secure, scalable, reusable, and reliable.
• Ensure that integration and orchestration capabilities are implemented consistently and in accordance with the agreed business and product requirements.
• Define acceptance criteria that clearly outline success, failure, and edge-case scenarios to support estimation, development, QA validation, and release readiness.
• Act as the primary owner of the Atlas platform backlog, ensuring that integration and orchestration capabilities are prioritized and developed in line with strategic objectives.

Qualifications:

• Proven experience in roles such as Product Owner, Technical Product Manager, Technical Analyst, Platform Owner, or Integration Lead within a complex enterprise setting.
• Strong knowledge of API design, API-led integration, system-to-system integration, workflow orchestration, event-driven patterns, domain-driven design, and data exchange.
• Experience managing a technical backlog in an agile environment, including user stories, acceptance criteria, prioritization, and refinement.
• Demonstrated ability to write clear, testable user stories and acceptance criteria for engineering and QA teams.
• Understanding of non-functional requirements for enterprise platforms, including security, performance, resilience, observability, scalability, data quality, error handling, and operational support.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, QAs, architects, product teams, operations, and senior business stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills to convey complex integration concepts in accessible business language.
• Confidence in facilitating discussions, managing expectations, resolving ambiguities, and influencing priorities across multiple teams.

Desirable Experience:

• Experience in media, content production, marketing, or workflow-driven environments.
• Exposure to iPaaS, API management, orchestration, or enterprise integration platforms.
• Familiarity with enterprise SaaS ecosystems across workflow, finance, resource, asset lifecycle, or approval systems.
• Experience with finance integrations, risk and control processes, or regulated enterprise workflow environments.
• Experience with Jira, Jira Product Discovery, Miro, or similar collaboration and delivery tools.

Company Culture:

WPP values openness, optimism, and extraordinary collaboration. We believe in the power of creativity, technology, and talent to create brighter futures for our people, clients, and communities. We foster a culture of respect and inclusivity, ensuring everyone feels they belong and have equal opportunities for career progression.

We have adopted a hybrid working model, encouraging team collaboration in the office approximately four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

Degree Requirement: Not Specified

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