Product, Application and Offensive Security Lead

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. Department: Data & Technology Solutions (DTS) Reports To: SVP Security and Compliance Location: [London/Hybrid 2 days a week in office] Position Type: Full-Time Role Overview The Product, Application and Offensive Security Lead is responsible for embedding security directly into the design, development, testing, and operation of DTS products and platforms. This is a hands-on security engineering role. The role requires someone who can work directly with product and engineering teams, review designs, assess APIs, run threat models, test systems, coordinate penetration testing, identify vulnerabilities, and help teams remediate issues. The role ensures DTS products, APIs, data collaboration capabilities, AI-enabled workflows, and client-facing services are designed, built, and tested securely. It also owns the practical offensive security and adversarial assurance activity needed to test DTS products from an attacker’s perspective. The Product, Application and Offensive Security Lead will work closely with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Infrastructure, Security Operations, Privacy, Cloud and Platform Security, and the ISMS and Risk Officer to