AKQA
Director,GenerativeAIExperienceEngineering
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“Director, Generative AI Experience Engineering at AKQA. Skills: Generative AI, Experience Engineering, AI-native architecture, Frontend architecture. Lead design of AI-native platforms. Lead architecture of AI-native platforms”
What You'll Achieve.
Deliver meaningful returns for clients; Define next era of AI-native experiences; Deliver next generation of AI-native experiences
Industry & Context.
Translate technical complexity; Operate comfortably in ambiguity; Balancing experimentation; Balancing delivery quality; Balancing commercial realities
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Hands-on technical leader, Experience across modern frontend engineering, Experience across AI-native architecture, Ability to design production-ready systems, Ability to deliver production-ready systems, Experience across modern LLM ecosystems, Experience across foundation models, Experience across retrieval pipelines, Experience across vector storage, Experience across embeddings, Experience across multi-agent systems, Experience across AI observability tooling, Experience designing systems for conversational rendering, Experience designing systems for dynamic content assembly, Experience designing systems for streaming UX, Experience designing systems for adaptive interfaces, Experience with OpenAI, Experience with Gemini, Experience with Claude, Experience with OSS models, Experience with RAG pipelines, Experience with vector databases, Experience with embeddings, Experience with chunking, Experience with tool calling, Experience with agentic systems, Experience with orchestration, Experience with memory frameworks, Experience with prompt engineering, Experience with prompt management, Experience with context engineering, Experience with AI observability, Experience with AI evaluations, Experience with AI governance, Experience with AI guardrails, Experience with AI-assisted development tooling, Experience with Claude Code, Experience with Cursor, Experience with Codex, Experience with prompt-driven engineering, Experience with AI pair-programming workflows, Experience with Vercel, Experience with serverless infrastructure, Experience with edge infrastructure, Experience with AI workload deployment, Experience with AI workload optimisation, Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Experience with Infrastructure as Code, Experience with REST APIs, Experience with GraphQL APIs, Experience with Microservices, Experience with MACH architectures, Experience with CMS, Experience with DXPs, Experience with MarTech ecosystems, Engineering or development background, Deep frontend architecture capability, Systems thinker
Nice to Have
Vercel preferred, GCP preferred, AWS considered, Azure considered
What You'll Do.
Lead design of AI-native platforms
Lead architecture of AI-native platforms
Remain hands-on with engineering teams
Contribute to prototypes
Contribute to proof-of-concepts
Contribute to production acceleration
Manage engineering team
Mentor engineering team
Drive engineering quality
Drive technical direction
Drive delivery standards
Build AI-native customer experiences
Shape AI-native customer experiences
Experiment with AI tooling
Experiment with AI workflows
Experiment with engineering methodologies
Bring forward-thinking ideas into production
Shape AI transformation conversations
Shape technical strategy
Shape engineering roadmaps
Lead discovery sessions
Lead architecture discussions
Translate technical complexity
Communicate technical viability
Communicate scalability
Communicate strategic value
Lead rapid proof-of-concepts
Lead innovation initiatives
Lead production acceleration
Operate comfortably in ambiguity
Balance experimentation
Balance delivery quality
Balance commercial realities
Drive AI-augmented engineering methodologies
Improve engineering processes
Improve engineering tooling
Improve technical standards
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Global AKQA studios; Design teams; Engineering teams; Innovation teams; Client stakeholders; Senior client stakeholders
Communication Scope
Client advisory; Technical strategy; Engineering roadmaps; Discovery sessions; Architecture discussions; Technical viability; Scalability; Strategic value; Explain complex AI systems; Explain engineering decisions
Process & Methodology
Roadmap planning, Delivery standards
Full Job Description
At AKQA (part of WPP), we believe in the imaginative application of art and science to create beautiful ideas, products and services. With an entrepreneurial and collaborative approach, we design adaptive digital products, services and experiences that capture the imagination and deliver meaningful returns for our clients. At AKQA, you will help define the next era of AI-native customer experiences, not as a future concept, but as live products and platforms already moving into the world. The industry is entering a structural shift. Traditional digital experiences are becoming AI-native experiences, interfaces assembled in real-time around intent, conversation, retrieval and contextual generation. At AKQA, we are not exploring this future theoretically. We are already building it. We are looking for a Director, Generative AI Experience Engineering to help define and deliver the next generation of AI-native customer experiences across commerce, content and customer interfaces for some of the world’s most ambitious brands. This role sits at the intersection of AI systems engineering, generative experience design and modern frontend architecture leadership. We are not looking for a traditional engineering manager, nor a pure AI researcher removed from delivery. We are looking for a hands-on technical leader who can operate across architecture, engineering, experimentation, delivery and client advisory simultaneously. You will lead and mentor a small engineering team whilst remaining close to the code, prototyping new ideas, shaping AI-native architectures and helping clients navigate AI transformation with confidence and clarity. Based in a hybrid working environment, collaborating with global AKQA studios, you will work alongside some of the brightest minds in design, engineering and innovation, helping shape the future of AI-native experiences. ROLE REQUIREMENTS Technical Leadership Lead the design and architecture of AI-native experience platforms, from frontend ren
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