Data Science Manager

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: Open Intelligence (OI) is one of WPP’s most strategic bets - a flagship data and AI initiative at the intersection of machine learning, advertising technology, and audience insight, built to power the next generation of media intelligence. Operating across the US and UK and expanding across EMEA and APAC, OI runs at true global scale. To lead the next phase of development at the embedding and applied-AI layer of OI, we are hiring a Data Science Team Lead in Copenhagen. You will guide a small, sharp team building critical capabilities - from multimodal embedding spaces and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to agentic tools and UIs - that make the rest of OI’s AI ecosystem thrive. What you'll be doing: Line-manage and grow the team : Drive 1:1s, recruitment, performance, mentorship, and day-to-day technical and team direction. Own technical architecture & direction : Lead the technical vision and design for well-distributed multimodal embedding spaces (text, image, video), MCP server tooling, and user-facing chat agents + UI. Translate strategy into action : Take

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: We are expanding our data science capability to develop a state-of-the-art system for estimating and understanding the size and characteristics of marketing and advertising audiences. This role offers the opportunity to apply Bayesian statistics, advanced mathematical thinking and production-quality engineering to complex problems with meaningful industry impact. What You’ll Be Doing Develop and implement Bayesian statistical models and other advanced analytical methods to estimate audience sizes and characteristics. Translate complex mathematical and statistical questions into robust, explainable data-driven solutions. Build and maintain production-ready Python packages, including unit tests and clear technical documentation. Collaborate with data scientists, engineers and other specialists to design, build and refine analytical solutions. Work with diverse data formats and help maintain data quality and integrity throughout the analytics pipeline. Use cloud computing resources to support scalable data processing and model deployment. Contribute to Git repositories, code reviews and

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. About Open Intelligence: Open Intelligence (OI) is one of WPP’s most strategic bets — a data and AI initiative at the intersection of machine learning, advertising technology, and audience insight, built to power the next generation of media intelligence. OI operates at real scale, running across the US and UK and expanding rapidly across EMEA and APAC. Our Copenhagen team has ~50 people, including 14+ data scientists and a strong engineering group. We’re flat, high-trust and fast-moving: strong opinions loosely held, teamwork over ego, aim high and have fun. Why we're hiring: Open Intelligence is accelerating the development of its core AI capabilities, and we are strengthening our applied-AI and engineering group in Copenhagen. We need a Data Engineer who can help bridge the gap between AI experimentation and production software engineering — working alongside data scientists and senior engineers to turn cutting-edge model research, multimodal embeddings, and agentic tools into scalable, robust, and well-architected components that power products across WPP globally. We are looking for a Data

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. About Open Intelligence: Open Intelligence (OI) is one of WPP’s most strategic bets — a data and AI initiative at the intersection of machine learning, advertising technology, and audience insight, built to power the next generation of media intelligence. OI operates at real scale, running across the US and UK and expanding rapidly across EMEA and APAC. Our Copenhagen team has ~50 people, including 14+ data scientists and a strong engineering group. We’re flat, high-trust and fast-moving: strong opinions loosely held, teamwork over ego, aim high and have fun. Why we're hiring: Open Intelligence is accelerating the development of its core AI capabilities, and we are strengthening our applied-AI and engineering group in Copenhagen. We need a Senior Engineer who can bridge the gap between AI experimentation and production software engineering — taking cutting-edge model research, multimodal embeddings, and agentic tools, and turning them into scalable, robust, and well-architected components that power products across WPP globally. We are looking for a Senior Engineer who cares about architecture and cod

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we’re hiring We’re growing the data engineering capability behind ad-tech solutions that process large-scale, real-time audience data. In this role, you’ll take deep technical ownership of the data model that supports targeting and measurement decisions for advertisers at scale. You’ll help evolve a complex, interconnected data platform while working with modern distributed processing technologies and a highly collaborative engineering team. Who you’ll be working with You’ll work closely with data engineers and colleagues across Quality Assurance, Analytics and connector teams. We value teamwork over ego, collaboration over competition, open and honest communication, strong opinions held with curiosity, and continuous improvement through kaizen. Our technology environment Scala-based backend services Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Apache Spark for large-scale distributed data processing Parquet and BigQuery Tyda, an open-source, automation-driven software development lifecycle process What you’ll do Own and evolve a core data model spanning input and output models, field types and partitioning strate

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Location Requirement This is a hybrid role based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Candidates must currently reside in Denmark or be willing to relocate independently, as relocation support is not provided for this position. Why we're hiring: About Data & Technology Solutions WPP’s Data & Technology Solutions is the WPP’s unified global data products and technology team. We work with our agencies and clients to build data data-driven solutions and technology product to power marketing transformation. WPP Open is our AI platform for marketing, it connects marketing professionals, data, tools and AI in a single place. WPP Open is the simplest, safest and fastest way to realize the benefits of scaled AI – delivering better-informed creative ideas faster, at scale and at lower cost. We’re endlessly curious and our team of thinkers, builders, creators and problem solvers are over 2,000 strong, across 20 markets around the world. What you'll be doing: Work with development teams to effectively use the existing Knowledge Graph Translate product and business requirements into graph-b