Product Lead - Integrations and Orchestrations

Why we're hiring:

WPP is seeking a Platform Product Lead – Integration & Orchestration to own and deliver the platform capability that connects production workflows, data, and systems across WPP’s global production ecosystem.
Sitting within Enterprise Technology, this role will work across business, product, architecture, and engineering teams to deliver reliable integrations and scalable orchestration capability that supports Production Operations requirements.
The ideal candidate will combine strong stakeholder and communication skills with a solid technical understanding of APIs, integration patterns, orchestration principles, and agile delivery.
This role requires a Product Lead who can translate agreed business and technical requirements into clear, structured and engineering-ready backlog items, user stories and acceptance criteria that enable predictable delivery at enterprise scale.

What you'll be doing:

•    Own and prioritise the Integration & Orchestration platform backlog, ensuring alignment to enterprise technology strategy and Production Operations priorities.
•    Own and evolve the Integration & Orchestration platform roadmap, balancing platform sustainability, engineering considerations, business priorities, and long-term capability needs.
•    Act as the primary bridge between business stakeholders, Product, Architecture, Engineering, Operations, and Service teams.
•    Translate agreed business and technical requirements into epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, dependencies, non-functional requirements and delivery priorities that enable effective engineering delivery.
•    Produce high-quality, engineering-ready requirements that are clear, testable, prioritised, technically feasible and traceable to business outcomes.
•    Own and prioritise delivery of API-first, event-driven, asynchronous, and system-to-system integrations across SaaS and bespoke platforms.
•    Facilitate workshops and working sessions to clarify requirements, resolve ambiguity, identify dependencies, and align implementation approaches across teams.
•    Communicate priorities, progress, risks, dependencies, and decisions clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
•    Partner with Engineering and Architecture to ensure secure, scalable, reusable, and reliable platform outcomes.
•    Ensure integration and orchestration capabilities are implemented consistently, reliably, and in alignment with agreed business and product requirements.
•    Ensure acceptance criteria define success, failure, and edge-case scenarios clearly enough to support estimation, development, QA validation, and release readiness.
•    Act as the primary owner for the Atlas platform backlog, ensuring integration and orchestration capability is prioritised, implemented, and evolved in line with strategic platform objectives.

What you'll need:

•    Experience as a Product Owner, Technical Product Manager, Technical Analyst, Platform Owner, or Integration Lead in a complex enterprise environment.
•    Strong understanding 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 delivery environment, including user stories, acceptance criteria, prioritisation, and refinement.
•    Proven experience writing clear, testable user stories and acceptance criteria that engineering and QA teams can use directly for estimation, development, validation, and release readiness.
•    Strong understanding of non-functional requirements for enterprise platforms, including security, performance, resilience, observability, scalability, data quality, error handling, and operational support.
•    Ability to work effectively with engineers, QAs, architects, product teams, operations, and senior business stakeholders.
•    Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex integration concepts in clear business language.
•    Confident facilitating discussion, managing expectations, resolving ambiguity, 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

Who you are:

You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?

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