Global Director, Solutions Architect

About Finecast

Finecast, a WPP company specialising in addressable TV, launched in the UK in September 2017. As TV audiences’ fragment across a range of platforms and as viewing behaviours evolve, TV advertisers are grappling with how to continue making best use of their most trusted medium. Finecast was created to help solve this challenge. Finecast enables advertisers to precision-target viewers across multiple on demand, linear and live streaming TV environments. Finecast gives advertisers the ability to deliver targeted ads to audiences watching TV content across multiple broadcasters, connected devices, set top boxes, over-the-top providers and game consoles – all through a single point of access with standardised measurement. Finecast optimises delivery across the entire addressable TV marketplace. With access to hundreds of different targeting segments, from socio-economic to life stage, purchase and financial data, advertisers can identify and reach viewers whenever and wherever they are watching. 

About GroupM

GroupM is the leading global media investment management operation. It serves as the parent company to WPP media agencies Wavemaker, MediaCom, Mindshare, Essence and m/SIX. Its primary purpose is to maximise the performance of WPP’s media communications agencies on behalf of our clients, our shareholders and our people by operating as a parent and collaborator in performance-enhancing activities such as trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. The agencies that comprise GroupM are all global operations in their own right with leading market positions. The focus of GroupM is the intelligent application of physical and intellectual scale to benefit trading, innovation, and new communication services, to bring a strategic advantage to our clients and our companies.

About team

Finecast is currently live in fourteen markets with a number of new market launches planned for 2023.

The team is made up of an expanding team of 300+ spanning Product, Data & Analytics, Engagement, Operations, Client Services, Marketing, Business Operations, and Finance functions.

Finecast is a team of individuals shaping the future of TV advertising and as such we set high standards for the individuals we hire and the skillsets they bring to our business.

We are a rapidly growing organisation that require a hands-on approach with creative thinking, strong communication skills and a passion for what we do that translates into real energy in our team culture.

There is no place for politics – Finecast is a fun, open, honest place to work where we support each other for our mutual success.

The role Objectives

The Global Director, Solutions Architect will support Finecast in designing, building and rolling out new product solutions around the world providing our clients with access to new technologies, data, audiences, and measurement and attribution solutions.

As Finecast continues to expand globally, the role will have the responsibility for designing, testing and rolling out new product solutions across our markets, executing a consistent product vision, architecting solutions, providing best practice guidance on implementation and evaluating our success.

The role will report to Senior Director, Product Solutions in the global team.

The primary responsibilities of the role will be:

• Work closely with our local and global teams on designing, testing and implementing of new product solutions in and around the addressable TV advertising space
• Design testing frameworks and guide ‘proof of concept’ market tests to drive iterative development
• Engage with our partners and vendors on a technical level to architect solutions, drive product development and develop joint roadmaps, where required
• Identify and help test partnership opportunities across inventory, data and technology to support the successful development of new product solutions
• Oversee the global prioritisation, solution design and roll out plans of new product solutions across our global footprint
• Input into business cases for new product solutions to help illustrate their value and impact
• Support the research and assessment of new product solutions and track and evaluate their success
• Input into the go-to-market strategy, positioning, marketing and training materials for new products, working closely with the marketing, market development and product teams within existing frameworks
• Establish and maintain key relationships across our global product and innovation communities, both within Finecast and across GroupM
• Actively contribute to and help drive a culture of innovation across our global organisation

Candidate requirements

The ideal candidate will be passionate about building new products solutions, a creative thinker with a can-do attitude and strong commercial acumen, who is able to collaborate well internally and externally to drive projects to completion, communicate effectively to articulate ideas and product vision, and manage multiple stakeholders in complex projects.

A strong working knowledge of the TV advertising and digital media industries is key as the candidate will need to help architect and roll out first to market product solutions that will require creative commercial and technical thinking and alignment with our core proposition (i.e., single point of access to the whole addressable TV marketplace).

Ideally, the candidate will have a strong working experience of building product solutions, taking those products to market and working with local teams to build enthusiasm, understanding and regular dialogue, inspiring our people to take calculated risks in testing new opportunities.

The following skills and attributes will be essential:

• Solid hands-on experience of developing and rolling out new products and solutions
• Solid experience in the TV advertising and digital media industries
• Strong technical acumen in the TV and video advertising technology space – e.g., DSPs, SSPs, ad servers, data platforms
• Understanding and experience of product development process and project leadership with a focus on building new products
• Ability to develop partner relationships – holding them accountable and clearly setting expectations / requirements and prioritising tasks
• Flexibility and willingness to adapt and move on if ideas do not work, while learning from mistakes
• Proven ability to work positively as a key stakeholder in cross functional projects, being able to listen and process information from others and incorporate feedback
• Excellent communication skills, effectively translating complex ideas into easy to understand, workable solutions and comfortable presenting in group environments
• Strong stakeholder management skills – the ability to build effective working relationships and work through challenging circumstances to drive a defined end goal
• Bring an energy and passion to your work, be versatile and collaborative in style and confident in the solutions you present
• The ability to work across different markets and cultures

Finecast team identity

We believe that brilliant teams attract the next generation of brilliant employees.

Our values matter because they set the tone for the way we behave internally and externally. They are real and lived every day.

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Finecast values

Innovate: Through creativity and vision, we evolve.

Belong: Together we promote a sense of self-worth and fulfilment.

Strive: We support each other’s growth and development, to drive success.

Respect: We earn respect through trust and integrity.