Director, AI & Agent Governance

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Role Summary and Impact

This role is within WPP Media, where you will be instrumental in establishing governance, prioritization, and lifecycle management across an expanding agent ecosystem supporting Google’s global account. You’ll own the roadmap for agents created across enterprise AI and workspace environments, bringing structure to intake, development, approvals, testing, launch, maintenance, and retirement. You’ll work with Google stakeholders, Data and Technology Services, the WPP Media product team, subject matter experts, and agency teams to ensure agents deliver meaningful value safely, accurately, and reliably.

You’ll join the Integrated AI Solutions team within the Google business, a highly visible group operating at the forefront of enterprise AI adoption. This is an opportunity to shape operating models and governance practices that are still evolving, influence how agentic workflows scale across a major global client, and connect strategic priorities with detailed execution. You’ll work in an environment that values curiosity, experimentation, accountability, and practical innovation.

Key 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, accu

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. Our comprehensive benefits package reflects this commitment, including competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.

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US Pay Range
$100,000 — $230,000 USD

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