Platform Security Director: Enable Innovation & Trust

WPP; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

WPP is seeking a Business Security Services Director to partner with WPP Open, ensuring security, trust, resilience and client assurance as the platform scales. You will align security strategy with product and engineering teams, and drive governance, AI security, data protection and risk management across the platform.

You will lead secure software practices, govern AI capabilities, and work with stakeholders to maintain trust in WPP Open’s security posture. This is a hybrid role in the UK.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in cyber security, product security, platform security or security leadership.
• Experience partnering with product, engineering and business teams in fast-moving tech environments.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native platforms, SaaS products and modern software delivery.
• Knowledge of AI security, identity and access management, API security, data protection, and resilience.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.
• A pragmatic approach balancing security with product innovation and business goals.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary security partner for WPP Open, building relationships with product, engineering, AI and architecture teams.
• Translate enterprise security strategy into practical platform-specific outcomes and enable innovation.
• Represent WPP Open within security governance and leadership forums.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to strengthen secure software development practices.
• Support governance of AI-enabled capabilities and agentic workflows.
• Drive a risk-based approach to AI misuse, prompt abuse and data protection.
• Ensure robust controls around client data protection, segregation and confidentiality.
• Support client assurance activities and security commitments for leading brands.
• Maintain trust in WPP Open’s security posture with internal stakeholders.
• Evolve modern identity and access security models across the platform.
• Contribute to platform resilience, continuity planning and recovery readiness.
• Work with cyber incident response teams on security events and risk management.
• Define and communicate security metrics, risk indicators and platform security trends to senior stakeholders.

Skills

Cyber security leadership

Security governance

Cloud security

AI security

Stakeholder management

Product security

Job description

WPP is seeking a Business Security Services Director to partner with WPP Open, ensuring security, trust, resilience and client assurance as the platform scales. You will align security strategy with product and engineering teams, and drive governance, AI security, data protection and risk management across the platform.

You will lead secure software practices, govern AI capabilities, and work with stakeholders to maintain trust in WPP Open’s security posture. This is a hybrid role in the UK.