Responsibilities

• Define and lead the creative vision for high-value production and post production work across the UK business, with a particular emphasis on VFX, CGI, design, finishing and AI origination.
• Set the benchmark for visual quality, storytelling, innovation and craft across projects, outputs and client partnerships.
• Provide senior creative oversight from brief through to final delivery, ensuring the work is ambitious, culturally relevant, technically excellent and commercially effective.
• Champion best-in-class creative standards inspired by the world’s leading post and VFX environments, while tailoring those standards to the needs of modern brand content systems.
• Ensure AI-enabled workflows are implemented with strong creative judgment, technical fluency, brand suitability and appropriate governance.
• Drive new thinking around image-making, digital world-building, synthetic production, virtual workflows and scalable content creation.
• Act as a senior creative partner to internal stakeholders, agency teams and clients, helping shape briefs, unlock ambition and steer complex projects toward outstanding outcomes.
• Present work with authority and clarity, building confidence with senior clients and collaborators.
• Translate brand, business and audience needs into elevated visual ideas and executable production solutions.
• Act as an external and internal ambassador for WPP Production’s craft expertise, contributing to industry visibility, thought leadership and reputation building.

• Foster a culture that values curiosity, experimentation, generosity, collaboration and uncompromising craft.
• Help identify and attract exceptional talent across post production, VFX, CGI and AI-enabled creative disciplines.
• Develop clear creative review processes and feedback standards that help teams produce their best work.

Requirements

• Significant senior creative leadership experience within a leading post production, VFX, CGI, design, moving image or integrated production environment.
• A strong and credible body of work demonstrating excellence in visual storytelling, post production craft, VFX, CGI and innovation-led production.
• Deep knowledge of the end-to-end post production process, including editorial, grading, finishing, motion design, compositing, CG pipelines and delivery.
• Strong understanding of current and emerging AI tools and their practical application in professional creative production.
• Proven ability to elevate specialist craft across complex, high-profile projects.
• Experience working with senior clients, creative agencies, strategists, producers and cross-functional stakeholders in fast-paced environments.
• Exceptional creative judgment, with the ability to combine conceptual ambition with technical realism and delivery excellence.
• Strong commercial instincts and an ability to contribute to business development, client growth and creative differentiation.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with confidence in articulating ideas, giving direction and influencing at senior levels.
• A highly collaborative leadership style, with the presence and credibility to operate across boutique studio teams and scaled production networks.

Preferred

• Experience in virtual production, real-time workflows or immersive content environments.
• Recognition through industry awards or a strong profile within the post/VFX/CGI community.
• Experience building or evolving creative departments, studio offers or innovation practices.
• Understanding of how global content systems are created and adapted across multiple channels, formats and markets.