Senior Director, Strategy, India

About WPP Media WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships – all united by our pioneering agentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth.  WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation at scale. Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working. For more information, visit wppmedia.com . About WPP Media WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities. For more information, visit wpp.com. WPP Media is WPP’s global media collective. In a world where media is everywhere and in everything, we bring the best platform, people, and partners together to create limitless opportunities for growth. For more information, visit wppmedia.com At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It’s what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media’s shared core values: • Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity. • Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust. • Lead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilize the Enterprise. YOUR ROLE IN A NUTSHELL As Senior Director, AI Strategy, India, you will lead the end-to-end adoption of AI across MFG's Google business in India. You will translate regional strategy and approved AI capabilities into practical local action—building market capability, advising Tier 1 campaigns, embedding agentic solutions into business-as-usual workflows and developing or localizing tools where India's requirements. You will be the primary in-market AI strategy partner for MFG practice leads and Google Media Lab, while also working with Product Marketing Managers, Brand Social teams, senior marketing stakeholders and agency partners. Your success will be measured not by experimentation alone, but by scaled adoption, responsible use and demonstrable improvements in productivity, quality and campaign outcomes. The ideal candidate combines senior media and stakeholder leadership with practical AI fluency. You can spot valuable use cases, mobilize cross-functional specialists, guide teams through change and turn successful market innovation into repeatable solutions for wider use. REPORTING OF THE ROLE ● AVP, AI Strategy, APAC and India market leadership RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ROLE Market AI Strategy & Stakeholder Leadership ● Own the India market AI roadmap and delivery plan, aligned with APAC priorities, Google's marketing objectives and local business needs. ● Serve as the primary AI strategy partner to India MFG practice leads and the local Google Media Lab lead, identifying opportunities and resolving adoption barriers. ● Partner with Google PMMs and Brand Social stakeholders to extend appropriate WPP AI solutions across media, creative and non-media Product Area workstreams. ● Provide senior stakeholders, including local marketing leadership, with clear points of view and strategic direction on market-level AI initiatives. ● Act as the AI bridge between MFG, other WPP agencies and relevant external agency partners to align delivery against shared media AI OKRs. Enablement, Campaign Deployment & Adoption ● Design and deliver localized, hands-on training, workshops and onboarding for cross-functional teams, supported by market-relevant pla