Director, Applied AI Product

Publicis Groupe; New York (NY); On-site; USD 135,375 - 216,684; Full time

Job summary

Publicis Groupe is seeking a Director, Applied AI Product to lead strategy, design, and delivery of MRCL’s media data visualization, reporting, and dashboards for agency clients. You will enable AI-powered insights and scalable analytics experiences across global teams.

The role requires 5+ years in product management for analytics or visualization, a strong MarTech/AdTech background, and a track record shipping platform-level reporting solutions in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience with data visualization or analytics products.
• Experience shipping dashboarding and reporting within a platform context for media or marketing data.
• Background in MarTech or AdTech, with familiarity in media measurement and attribution.
• Strong data visualization practices and ability to translate complex data into actionable analytics.
• Proven cross-functional collaboration and ability to influence globally across teams.
• Entrepreneurial mindset for fast-moving, ambiguous environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the product vision for media data visualization and dashboards.
• Own end-to-end lifecycle of reporting features from discovery to iteration.
• Collaborate with engineering, data, and BI teams to meet reporting needs.
• Partner with Product Strategy to configure client-specific reporting solutions.
• Build a scalable analytics platform to surface insights for agencies and clients.
• Grow a focused, performance-driven MRCL team.

Skills

Product management

Data visualization

BI tooling

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Entrepreneurial mindset

Job description

Company description

Publicis Groupe is a global leader in communication and is positioned at every step of the value chain, from consulting to execution, combining marketing transformation and digital business transformation. Through a unified and fluid organization, Publicis Groupe partners with its clients across communication, media, data and technology to ensure access to the full breadth of capabilities in every market. Present in over 100 countries, Publicis Groupe employs around 103,000 professionals.

Overview

Groupe Solutions is an accelerant at the center of the Groupe. Made up of audience strategists, data scientists, and analytics practitioners, Groupe Solutions will partner with Groupe leaders to win or retain strategic accounts and serve as business owners of Groupe’s AI Platforms.

Responsibilities

Our Director, Applied AI Product will support the strategy, design, and execution of building the MRCL platform’s media data visualization, reporting, and dashboarding capabilities, as well as the platform’s broader user experience (including, as an example, nodal or canvas UI experiences and point & click UI integration with agentic patterns) to drive connected Groupe capabilities. This role focuses on delivering AI-powered experiences that enable agency teams to surface insights, drive campaign governance, monitor campaign performance, and visualize results - all within MRCL.

The ideal candidate combines deep product management expertise with strong fluency in data visualization, analytics, and reporting best practices. They understand how to work across organizational boundaries — partnering with engineering, data, media, and business intelligence teams globally — to build scalable reporting capabilities that unlock value for Groupe agencies and their clients.

As a leader in our MRCL team, this role will:

• Define and drive the product vision for media data visualization, reporting, and dashboarding capabilities within MRCL, ensuring they deliver actionable insights to agency practitioners and their clients.
• Drive MRCL user patterns for rich client-friendly user experience.
• Collaborate with engineering, data foundations, and platform architecture teams to build scalable, performant, and visually compelling analytics experiences.
• Partner with the Product Strategy team, enabling them to work alongside client teams to configure reporting and dashboarding solutions for specific client needs.
• Join and help grow a focused and performance-driven environment where data excellence fuels innovation in marketing and advertising AI.

The Key Responsibilities

• Define and manage the product roadmap for media data visualization, reporting, and dashboarding capabilities — including real-time campaign dashboards, automated reporting pipelines, custom analytics views, and AI-powered insight generation.
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of reporting and analytics features: discovery, design, build, launch, and iteration based on user feedback and data quality metrics.
• Work with media, analytics, and business intelligence teams across Groupe globally to understand reporting requirements, define data visualization standards, and drive adoption of platform analytics capabilities.
• Partner with engineering teams on analytics architecture decisions, ensuring data pipeline performance, visualization rendering scalability, and consistent user experience across dashboards and reports.
• Work with security, compliance, and governance teams to ensure reporting capabilities meet data privacy, access control, and data governance standards — particularly for dashboards surfacing client-sensitive media performance data.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with agency media, analytics, and client service leads, serving as the primary product contact for reporting and dashboarding initiatives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience, with demonstrated ownership of building data visualization, reporting, or analytics products.
• Direct experience designing or shipping dashboarding and reporting capabilities within a platform context — particularly products that surface media, advertising, or marketing performance data.
• Background in the marketing technology (MarTech) or advertising technology (AdTech) space, with deep familiarity in areas such as media measurement, campaign analytics, attribution modeling, and audience insights.
• Strong understanding of data visualization best practices, BI tooling ecosystems, and how to translate complex datasets into intuitive, actionable analytics experiences.
• Strong execution background with a record of shipping analytics or reporting products that serve multiple stakeholder groups across media, strategy, and client service functions.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across engineering, data, and business teams globally.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with comfort operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive.

Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [e-mail].

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Veterans Encouraged to Apply.

Compensation Range: USD $135,375.00 - USD $216,684.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 8/22/2026.