Strategic Lead, AI Agents & Governance

WPP

Chicago (IL)

Hybrid

USD 100,000 - 230,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive medical insurance

Group retirement plans

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Paid time off

Partner discounts

Mental health days

Hybrid work model

Job summary

WPP Media is seeking an experienced product/operations leader to govern and scale Google’s enterprise AI agents. You will own the roadmap, drive intake, development, approvals, testing, launch, maintenance, and retirement, and collaborate with Google stakeholders, Data & Technology Services, and agency teams to deliver safe, valuable workflows.

You will join the Integrated AI Solutions team, shaping operating models for a major global client and coordinating with cross‑functional partners to

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience in business, technology, communications, project management, product management, or a related discipline.
5-8 years of relevant experience in product management, project management, program management, product operations, technology transformation, or comparable complex operational work.
Experience managing a product, program, portfolio, roadmap, backlog, or complex cross-functional workstream from planning through delivery.
Ability to bring structure, prioritization, and accountability to ambiguous environments where processes and operating models are still developing.
Strong stakeholder management skills with experience influencing senior leaders, technical teams, subject matter experts, and cross-functional partners.
Experience managing competing requests, assessing strategic priorities, and recommending which initiatives should progress.

Responsibilities

Own and maintain the agent roadmap for Google’s global account, prioritizing initiatives based on strategic value, user need, business impact, and available resources.
Establish and manage the end-to-end agent lifecycle, from initial intake and development through approval, launch, testing, maintenance, optimization, and retirement.
Monitor the agent ecosystem across relevant enterprise AI and workspace environments to understand newly created agents, their purposes, usage, dependencies, and position within broader workflows.
Inventory, categorize, and rationalize the agent portfolio, identifying duplicate or overlapping solutions and coordinating consolidation, optimization, or retirement where appropriate.
Manage intake and prioritization processes for new agent requests, ensuring competing needs are assessed consistently and progressed through clear decision points.
Coordinate approval processes for agents that use new data sources, application programming interfaces, or comparable system connections, maintaining communication and follow-through across required stakeholders.
Establish ongoing testing and monitoring practices that assess agent safety, accuracy, reliability, data traceability, and performance after launch.
Coordinate the dedicated agent-building team’s roadmap, ensuring its capacity is focused on high-value work and that development priorities remain aligned with business needs.
Partner with the agentic design forum or council and product teams to capture user experience issues, product feedback, platform enhancements, and workflow improvement opportunities.
Build strong working relationships across Google, Data and Technology Services, WPP Media, subject matter expert, and agency teams to drive decisions, accountability, and progress.