Job Description
Overview of job
GroupM is the world’s largest media investment company and are a part of WPP. In fact, we are responsible for one in every three ads you see globally. We are currently looking for a Product Solutions Engineer to join us. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and building Finecast product lines and its implementation. This role is required to support the product and platform developments that will enable Finecast to build a best in class set of features and functionality, which supports the requirements and expectations of clients.
At GroupM APAC, our people are our strength, which is why fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion is important to us.
Reporting of the role
This role reports to Head of Product Management.
3 best things about the job:
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. There is no place for politics - Finecast is a fun, open, honest place to work where we support each other for our mutual success.
Finecast is currently live in fourteen markets with a number of new market launches planned for 2026. Work with us to gain global exposure and experience.
This role will play a crucial part in defining the future of Addressable TV advertising in India, there is tremendous opportunity to grow and improve/acquire new skill sets.
In this role, your goals will be:
In three months:
Understand the Addressable TV media marketplace, which is a new, complex, and fast-moving space.
Engage with our partners and vendors on a technical level to understand current solutions, development pipeline and participate in joint roadmaps, where required.
Work with Product, Tech team and understand different product flow and tech architecture.
Research market trends, new technologies and competitor offerings to keep up to date with the industry and inform the product roadmap.
Complete necessary training and certifications required for the role.
In six months:
Gather and prioritise business requirements and needs from relevant stakeholders, both internally within Finecast and externally with GroupM, agencies and clients
Review the assessment and enhancement of current product suite to ensure that they are fit for their purpose.
Initiate building and testing programmes for new products and features.
Contribute to product solutions technical and business documentation.
Be part of Global innovation and brainstorming sessions and contribute your inputs.
In 12 months:
Consult clients and partners for viable pilot opportunities which align with their current technology architecture.
Onboard/automate audiences’ data on the platform and integrate on cloud platform.
Identify and prioritise new product features to enhance the Finecast offering.
Keep business stakeholders informed about the product roadmap and development.
Act as subject matter expert (SME) for Finecast product lines to assisting other teams within the company.
Work in step with client account teams and Product Management to usher products through the commercialization process and prepare the rest of the client services organization to deploy at scale and assure our products serviceability.
What your day job looks like at the Agency (eg WM, MS):
The Product Solutions Engineer will be expected to work with stakeholders in the Product, business, as well as external suppliers and technology providers, to build out and maintain a cohesive strategy for product development and management.
This role is required to support the product and platform developments that will enable Finecast to build a best in class set of features and functionality, which supports the requirements and expectations of clients, whilst delivering against aggressive growth targets. The decisions made around the platform must reflect the short terms needs to grow, as well as the longer-term aspirations of achieving a solid base on which to build.
The Finecast products consist of technical solutions, services, and operations that allow for effective delivery and measurement of Advanced and Addressable TV advertising. Management of the product will involve the design, creation, enhancement, and maintenance of new and existing features, functionality, and processes.
What you’ll bring:
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.
Minimum qualifications:
3+years as product solutions engineer or in technical role.
Designing and building cloud platform solutions in Data Analytics and Machine learning specializations.
Expert with cloud platforms, GCP/Azure.
Proficiency with SQL across multiple database platforms.
Knowledge of programming languages Python, JavaScript.
Media industry experience, preferably within an agency, ad tech company or media owner
Strong technical acumen in the TV and video advertising technology space – e.g., DSPs, SSPs, ad servers, data platforms
Strong client-facing communication skills, with the ability to explain product functionality, technical design and limitations at the client's executive level as well as to developers or other client experts
More about Agency
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.
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.
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.
About India
2020 brought opportunities for brands to innovate because of which we saw an evolving media stack. The growth of digital is set to soar high because of changing consumer habits. With approximately 500 million smartphone users, low-priced data plans, 45 to 50 million e-commerce shoppers, approximately 60 OTT offerings and a young population, India is a mobile-first internet market. It is also one of the top 10 ad spend markets in the world and is set to climb the ranks. Global big tech corporations have made considerable investments in top e-commerce/retail ventures and Indian start-ups, blurring the lines between social media, e-commerce and mobile payments, resulting in disruption on an unimaginable scale.
At GroupM India, there’s never a dull moment between juggling client requests, managing vendor partners and having fun with your team. We believe in tackling challenges head-on and getting the things done.
GroupM is an equal opportunity employer. We view everyone as an individual and we understand that inclusion is more than just diversity – it’s about belonging. We celebrate the fact that everyone is unique and that is what makes us so good at what we do. We pride ourselves on being a company that embraces difference and truly represents the global clients we work with.
GroupM is the world’s largest media investment company and are a part of WPP. In fact, we are responsible for one in every three ads you see globally. We are currently looking for a Product Solutions Engineer to join us. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and building Finecast product lines and its implementation. This role is required to support the product and platform developments that will enable Finecast to build a best in class set of features and functionality, which supports the requirements and expectations of clients.
At GroupM APAC, our people are our strength, which is why fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion is important to us.
Reporting of the role
This role reports to Head of Product Management.
3 best things about the job:
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. There is no place for politics - Finecast is a fun, open, honest place to work where we support each other for our mutual success.
Finecast is currently live in fourteen markets with a number of new market launches planned for 2026. Work with us to gain global exposure and experience.
This role will play a crucial part in defining the future of Addressable TV advertising in India, there is tremendous opportunity to grow and improve/acquire new skill sets.
In this role, your goals will be:
In three months:
Understand the Addressable TV media marketplace, which is a new, complex, and fast-moving space.
Engage with our partners and vendors on a technical level to understand current solutions, development pipeline and participate in joint roadmaps, where required.
Work with Product, Tech team and understand different product flow and tech architecture.
Research market trends, new technologies and competitor offerings to keep up to date with the industry and inform the product roadmap.
Complete necessary training and certifications required for the role.
In six months:
Gather and prioritise business requirements and needs from relevant stakeholders, both internally within Finecast and externally with GroupM, agencies and clients
Review the assessment and enhancement of current product suite to ensure that they are fit for their purpose.
Initiate building and testing programmes for new products and features.
Contribute to product solutions technical and business documentation.
Be part of Global innovation and brainstorming sessions and contribute your inputs.
In 12 months:
Consult clients and partners for viable pilot opportunities which align with their current technology architecture.
Onboard/automate audiences’ data on the platform and integrate on cloud platform.
Identify and prioritise new product features to enhance the Finecast offering.
Keep business stakeholders informed about the product roadmap and development.
Act as subject matter expert (SME) for Finecast product lines to assisting other teams within the company.
Work in step with client account teams and Product Management to usher products through the commercialization process and prepare the rest of the client services organization to deploy at scale and assure our products serviceability.
What your day job looks like at the Agency (eg WM, MS):
The Product Solutions Engineer will be expected to work with stakeholders in the Product, business, as well as external suppliers and technology providers, to build out and maintain a cohesive strategy for product development and management.
This role is required to support the product and platform developments that will enable Finecast to build a best in class set of features and functionality, which supports the requirements and expectations of clients, whilst delivering against aggressive growth targets. The decisions made around the platform must reflect the short terms needs to grow, as well as the longer-term aspirations of achieving a solid base on which to build.
The Finecast products consist of technical solutions, services, and operations that allow for effective delivery and measurement of Advanced and Addressable TV advertising. Management of the product will involve the design, creation, enhancement, and maintenance of new and existing features, functionality, and processes.
What you’ll bring:
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.
Minimum qualifications:
3+years as product solutions engineer or in technical role.
Designing and building cloud platform solutions in Data Analytics and Machine learning specializations.
Expert with cloud platforms, GCP/Azure.
Proficiency with SQL across multiple database platforms.
Knowledge of programming languages Python, JavaScript.
Media industry experience, preferably within an agency, ad tech company or media owner
Strong technical acumen in the TV and video advertising technology space – e.g., DSPs, SSPs, ad servers, data platforms
Strong client-facing communication skills, with the ability to explain product functionality, technical design and limitations at the client's executive level as well as to developers or other client experts
More about Agency
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.
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.
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.
About India
2020 brought opportunities for brands to innovate because of which we saw an evolving media stack. The growth of digital is set to soar high because of changing consumer habits. With approximately 500 million smartphone users, low-priced data plans, 45 to 50 million e-commerce shoppers, approximately 60 OTT offerings and a young population, India is a mobile-first internet market. It is also one of the top 10 ad spend markets in the world and is set to climb the ranks. Global big tech corporations have made considerable investments in top e-commerce/retail ventures and Indian start-ups, blurring the lines between social media, e-commerce and mobile payments, resulting in disruption on an unimaginable scale.
At GroupM India, there’s never a dull moment between juggling client requests, managing vendor partners and having fun with your team. We believe in tackling challenges head-on and getting the things done.
GroupM is an equal opportunity employer. We view everyone as an individual and we understand that inclusion is more than just diversity – it’s about belonging. We celebrate the fact that everyone is unique and that is what makes us so good at what we do. We pride ourselves on being a company that embraces difference and truly represents the global clients we work with.
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Finecast | Production Solution Engineer position is now open for candidates interested in the Operations Executive Jobs sector. This role in Mumbai offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Operations Executive Jobs is a plus.
