APAC Media AI Orchestration Senior Director

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About the role

Senior market leadership to drive localized AI Incubation, enforce enterprise standards, and scale high-impact use cases across priority growth drivers.

Some of the things we’d like you to do:

Full Market Scope Execution: Dedicated end-to-end execution of the Market Scope within Japan

• XFN Training & Enablement: Rolling out localized workshops, trainings, and onboarding programs tailored to in-market teams.
• Local Monitoring & Compliance: Tracking market-level tool adoption and governance compliance across Tier 1 campaigns.
• Campaign Consultation: Advising local teams on deploying verified agents across live campaign activations.
• Custom Local Development: Architecting, localizing, deploying, and maintaining market-specific AI tools and custom agents to address unique local gaps.
• Speedboat Capture: Learning from speedboat AI innovations and feeding successes into the central repository.

A bit about yourself:

• At least 10 years of relevant experience (strategy, consulting, research, insight)
• Prior experience working on a global brand and presenting strategies to senior stakeholders
• Strong understanding of media
• Strong understanding of the Japan market - media, audiences and culture
• Working knowledge of market and audience research tools
• Vision for where communications strategy and the wider marketing industry is going
• More analytical than creative, yet strong in both

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