Location: Hong Kong 
Type: Full Time

The Role

As Director / Senior Director of Hardware Product Engineering, you will shape the hardware that puts a new category of active play into living rooms worldwide. You will own the end‑to‑end success of Nex Playground and its next generation — from early concept with Product Design through global‑scale manufacturing across a diversified supply chain. You will build and lead a hardware product engineering organization, guide the product's technical evolution, and drive the quality and innovation that families trust every day — at a company that's scaling very fast.

The Mindset

First‑principles, customer‑obsessed, decisive. Perseveres to the highest standards and challenges assumptions. Resilient through setbacks, coachable at every level. Grows engineers into owners and leaders. Empathetic, leads with trust, gives tough feedback, builds a culture of accountability. Executes with discipline, using data and experimentation to deliver uncompromising, high‑quality consumer products at scale.

Success Looks Like

Next‑gen hardware launched and ramping to millions of units across a diversified global supply chain — from US living rooms to EU and beyond. A team full of strong leaders who execute without heroics. ODM/JDM partnerships that deliver reliably while in‑house capability grows. The hardware families reach for every day — reliable, safe, and constantly evolving.

Key Responsibilities

Organization & Leadership

• Build a high‑performing Hardware Product Engineering organization — grow engineers into owners and develop strong leaders
• Partner across Software, Manufacturing, Sourcing, and Commercial to enable high‑volume production and global market access
• Deliver results through ODM/JDM models while building strategic in‑house capabilities

Product & Technology

• Single accountable owner of the core living‑room hardware product
• Partner with Product Design from early concept to translate customer needs into feasible, scalable hardware
• Drive hardware innovation, R&D, architecture, and key technology decisions

Delivery, Quality & Compliance

• Own the product across its full lifecycle — deliver on scope, timing, performance, reliability, and manufacturability
• Drive regulatory compliance, localization, and support supply chain diversification to fast-track international expansion
• Lead field issue investigation, root‑cause analysis, and corrective actions to continuously improve quality and safety

Must Have

• Significant experience delivering smart consumer electronics at scale
• Strong background in embedded systems and hardware‑software integration
• Experience leading engineering teams in high‑growth environments with product design, manufacturing, and sourcing partners
• Proven experience with ODM/JDM partnerships
• Strong working proficiency in spoken English and Mandarin (fluency strongly preferred)

Nice to Have

• Experience with TV‑connected, gaming, or home entertainment hardware platforms
• Experience with Android‑based consumer devices
• Experience with camera systems
• Experience building products for kids or families

About WPP Media

WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities. For more information, visit wpp.com.

WPP Media is WPP's global media collective. In a world where media is everywhere and in everything, we bring the best platform, people, and partners together to create limitless opportunities for growth. For more information, visit wppmedia.com.

Role Summary and Impact

WPP Media Hong Kong is seeking a Manager, SEO (AI Search) to join our team. This role is responsible for leading impactful SEO & GEO strategies for high-profile clients, where your expertise will directly translate into significant, measurable results and tangible business growth. You will be instrumental in the effective delivery of client SEO & GEO services, contributing to projects, and playing a key role in building and evolving our next-generation SEO/GEO offerings in the AI-search era.

Core Responsibilities:

• SEO/GEO Strategy & Execution: Take full ownership of existing SEO & GEO projects, ensuring smooth execution and the effective delivery of client services to drive measurable growth and exceed client expectations.
• Client Partnership: Act as an evangelist for the complete SEO/GEO offering to partner with our Clients team. Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders to ensure the delivery of existing business, maintain quality, and support new business acquisition.
• Technical SEO & Content: Serve as a knowledge owner for SEO and AI Search. Conduct complex website audits and oversee content creation and optimization in both Chinese and English.
• Innovation & Development: Support the further development of SEO/GEO as a discrete offering. Contribute to enhancing our proprietary SEO/GEO tools and product suite to complement our media and paid advertising solutions, including the integration of AI into SEO workflows.
• Sales & Operations: Refine the sales proposition and support processes for delivery. Assist the Director, SEO in creating sales proposals, support RFPs, and identify upsell and cross-sell opportunities.
• Team Leadership: Train, manage, mentor, and develop direct reports to ensure they are successful in their roles and grow in their careers.

Skills and Experience

At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It's what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media's shared core values:

• Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity.
• Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust.
• Lead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilize the Enterprise.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 5+ years of extensive experience in core SEO.
• Strong technical SEO foundation with experience in conducting complex website audits.
• Proven experience in content creation and optimization in both Chinese and English.
• Comfortable handling large amounts of data and able to effectively visualize data into clear insights.
• A strategic thinker who sees the big picture, yet pays attention to detail and takes pride in accuracy.
• A resourceful and continuous learner.
• Fluency in spoken and written English and Cantonese (Traditional/Simplified).

Desired Skills & Experience:

• Experience leveraging SEO, GEO, and AI tools to track search performance, measure visibility in AI overviews, and streamline workflows.
• A natural curiosity towards generative AI and how it is reshaping search behavior and content discovery. Possesses a working knowledge of AI agents, AI-led workflows, and a strong drive to understand what influences AI-generated results.
• Hands-on experience using industry-standard SEO/GEO tools such as SEMrush, Ahrefs, Screaming Frog, or similar platforms.
• Knowledge of Python or SQL for data analysis is preferable but not essential.

Life at WPP Media & Benefits

Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work, and we’re just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our benefits include competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.

WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

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While we appreciate all applications received, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

About the Company

The company is the world’s first licensed hybrid decentralized exchange (DEX), on a mission to make wealth-building as natural as daily life. It is building a compliant, self-custodial platform for premium tokenized strategies—from crypto to alternative investments—on trusted infrastructure. Backed by top-tier investors including Further Ventures, Matrix Partners, Delphi Digital, Hack VC, QCP, and SIG.

Core Requirements

The company seeks exceptional senior individual contributors who combine strong product leadership with deep quantitative skills. Candidates should demonstrate:

• Prior experience building or operating trading venues, exchanges, or market infrastructure
• Strong background as a quant, trader, or financial modeler, with hands-on experience designing or validating trading or risk models
• Proven Product Manager strength: Owning outcomes end-to-end, driving cross-functional alignment, writing high-quality precise specifications
• Deep understanding of margining, liquidation, leverage, and systemic risk mechanics
• Strong operational mindset and comfort owning systems in production
• Excellent communication skills, especially explaining complex quantitative reasoning clearly
• Sound judgment under ambiguity and high-stakes decision-making

Responsibilities

1) Quantitative Product Ownership

• Devise and own consistent, coherent quantitative direction across trading, margining, liquidation, lending, and risk-related products
• Ensure models, parameters, and mechanisms form a harmonious system
• Own end-to-end correctness, feasibility, and desirability in production, preventing edge cases, stress scenarios, and failures
• Handle feedback on quantitative behavior: Answer questions, diagnose issues, drive fixes
• Treat post-launch as ongoing design, refining models based on outcomes while prioritizing consistency

2) Cross-Functional Leadership & Execution

• Serve as product owner for complex quantitative areas
• Write clear, precise specifications for engineers
• Translate concepts for diverse audiences: Simplified models for users/partners, implementation details for engineers, risk framing for leadership
• Drive alignment: Surface concerns, address feedback, secure decisions
• Validate implementations through deep testing, focusing on edge cases, and remain accountable for correctness

3) Operational Ownership & Risk Management (Primary Focus)

• Take on-call responsibility for quantitative systems and risk-sensitive behavior
• Respond to incidents involving abnormal trading, liquidation anomalies, margin/risk issues, or extreme markets
• Make real-time decisions: Diagnose root causes, advise mitigations, balance user impact and safety
• Lead post-incident analysis: Address root causes, integrate learnings
• Proactively identify and mitigate systemic risks with teams
• Design products for operability: Observability, explainability, safe failure modes

About the Company

The company is the world’s first licensed hybrid decentralized exchange (DEX), on a mission to make wealth-building as natural as daily life. It is building a compliant, self-custodial platform for premium tokenized strategies—from crypto to alternative investments—on trusted infrastructure. Backed by top-tier investors including Further Ventures, Matrix Partners, Delphi Digital, Hack VC, QCP, and SIG.

Core Requirements

The company seeks exceptional senior individual contributors who combine strong product leadership with deep quantitative skills. Candidates should demonstrate:

• Prior experience building or operating trading venues, exchanges, or market infrastructure
• Strong background as a quant, trader, or financial modeler, with hands-on experience designing or validating trading or risk models
• Proven Product Manager strength: Owning outcomes end-to-end, driving cross-functional alignment, writing high-quality precise specifications
• Deep understanding of margining, liquidation, leverage, and systemic risk mechanics
• Strong operational mindset and comfort owning systems in production
• Excellent communication skills, especially explaining complex quantitative reasoning clearly
• Sound judgment under ambiguity and high-stakes decision-making

Responsibilities

1) Quantitative Product Ownership

• Devise and own consistent, coherent quantitative direction across trading, margining, liquidation, lending, and risk-related products
• Ensure models, parameters, and mechanisms form a harmonious system
• Own end-to-end correctness, feasibility, and desirability in production, preventing edge cases, stress scenarios, and failures
• Handle feedback on quantitative behavior: Answer questions, diagnose issues, drive fixes
• Treat post-launch as ongoing design, refining models based on outcomes while prioritizing consistency

2) Cross-Functional Leadership & Execution

• Serve as product owner for complex quantitative areas
• Write clear, precise specifications for engineers
• Translate concepts for diverse audiences: Simplified models for users/partners, implementation details for engineers, risk framing for leadership
• Drive alignment: Surface concerns, address feedback, secure decisions
• Validate implementations through deep testing, focusing on edge cases, and remain accountable for correctness

3) Operational Ownership & Risk Management (Primary Focus)

• Take on-call responsibility for quantitative systems and risk-sensitive behavior
• Respond to incidents involving abnormal trading, liquidation anomalies, margin/risk issues, or extreme markets
• Make real-time decisions: Diagnose root causes, advise mitigations, balance user impact and safety
• Lead post-incident analysis: Address root causes, integrate learnings
• Proactively identify and mitigate systemic risks with teams
• Design products for operability: Observability, explainability, safe failure modes

About the Company

The company is the world’s first licensed hybrid decentralized exchange (DEX), on a mission to make wealth-building as natural as daily life. It is building a compliant, self-custodial platform for premium tokenized strategies—from crypto to alternative investments—on trusted infrastructure. Backed by top-tier investors including Further Ventures, Matrix Partners, Delphi Digital, Hack VC, QCP, and SIG.

Core Requirements

The company seeks exceptional senior individual contributors who combine strong product leadership with deep quantitative skills. Candidates should demonstrate:

• Prior experience building or operating trading venues, exchanges, or market infrastructure
• Strong background as a quant, trader, or financial modeler, with hands-on experience designing or validating trading or risk models
• Proven Product Manager strength: Owning outcomes end-to-end, driving cross-functional alignment, writing high-quality precise specifications
• Deep understanding of margining, liquidation, leverage, and systemic risk mechanics
• Strong operational mindset and comfort owning systems in production
• Excellent communication skills, especially explaining complex quantitative reasoning clearly
• Sound judgment under ambiguity and high-stakes decision-making

Responsibilities

1) Quantitative Product Ownership

• Devise and own consistent, coherent quantitative direction across trading, margining, liquidation, lending, and risk-related products
• Ensure models, parameters, and mechanisms form a harmonious system
• Own end-to-end correctness, feasibility, and desirability in production, preventing edge cases, stress scenarios, and failures
• Handle feedback on quantitative behavior: Answer questions, diagnose issues, drive fixes
• Treat post-launch as ongoing design, refining models based on outcomes while prioritizing consistency

2) Cross-Functional Leadership & Execution

• Serve as product owner for complex quantitative areas
• Write clear, precise specifications for engineers
• Translate concepts for diverse audiences: Simplified models for users/partners, implementation details for engineers, risk framing for leadership
• Drive alignment: Surface concerns, address feedback, secure decisions
• Validate implementations through deep testing, focusing on edge cases, and remain accountable for correctness

3) Operational Ownership & Risk Management (Primary Focus)

• Take on-call responsibility for quantitative systems and risk-sensitive behavior
• Respond to incidents involving abnormal trading, liquidation anomalies, margin/risk issues, or extreme markets
• Make real-time decisions: Diagnose root causes, advise mitigations, balance user impact and safety
• Lead post-incident analysis: Address root causes, integrate learnings
• Proactively identify and mitigate systemic risks with teams
• Design products for operability: Observability, explainability, safe failure modes