Head of Creative Technology

Agency

Havas

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We’re not looking for someone who can list every AI tool that launched this month. We’re looking for the person who already tested three of them, discarded two, and built a production workflow around the one that actually works.

Havas Village ANZ is building a new AI‑powered creative production capability. We can’t say everything about it yet. What we can tell you: it connects into Havas’s global content‑at‑scale network and its ecosystem of AI‑powered production tools, automation, personalisation, and converged audience intelligence. It’s backed by real investment and a growing international network of Creative AI Directors, workflow specialists, and specialist partners that you will help shape and grow.

And here’s what you need to know about how we’re building it: we’re a challenger brand inside the holding company world, and we love it. While the big production networks consolidate 10,000 people onto single platforms and chase scale for scale’s sake, we’re doing something different. We’re entrepreneurial. We’re fast. We’re deliberately building a smaller, sharper operation where every person knows every switch on the ship.

The philosophy: reduce volume, increase impact. We don’t just produce more. We produce better. And we’re backing that with real tools, real ambition, and a genuine belief that a challenger model can outperform the giants.

This is a hands‑on leadership role sitting within our in‑house production operation, responsible for driving the quality, craft, and culture of AI‑powered creative production across Havas Village ANZ.

You’ll build and maintain the AI creative workflows that power our production output and optimise delivery processes. That means working across all of the latest platforms, Havas’s proprietary Vermeer.ai, and the full spectrum of open‑source and commercial tools that are reshaping the industry daily. If it generates, transforms, or accelerates creative and content at scale, you’ll have access to it and the freedom to use it.

To be clear: we are not a one‑stack operation. Yes, we have access to Havas’s Converged.

AI ecosystem and the tools being built within it. That’s a genuine advantage. But we also expect you to be across everything happening in the market. Every new model release. Every workflow breakthrough. Every platform that could change how we deliver for clients. We need someone who is relentlessly curious, who tries everything, who forms their own opinion on what works and what doesn’t, and who brings those learnings back to the team to scale innovation and create real ROI.

Example week:

• Monday – prototyping a video generation workflow for a campaign delivery.
• Tuesday – running a client workshop on what AI production can (and can’t) deliver.
• Wednesday – deep in a pipeline build for a product shoot.
• Thursday – collaborating with various village teams in concepting and playing with different ways to bring a campaign to life.
• Friday – presenting to Havas Village leadership on where creative AI is heading next quarter, having already formed a view.

• Own and evolve AI‑integrated creative production workflows across image, video, audio, and text generation. Build the systems that move work from concept to delivery faster and at higher quality than traditional methods.
• Architect and maintain scalable production pipelines. You’ll be a master of Havas’s global AI stack and the freedom to experiment.
• Lead AI capability development across Havas Village ANZ production teams. Upskill producers, designers, editors, and creatives. Make AI fluency the baseline, not the exception.
• Stay relentlessly current and tool‑agnostic. Evaluate new platforms, models, and workflows as they emerge. Test, learn, discard what doesn’t work. Scale what does. Build a culture where experimentation is expected, not tolerated.
• Collaborate with Havas’s international network of Creative AI Directors, workflow specialists, and Studio AI teams and contribute to global knowledge‑sharing.
• Partner with leadership on client‑facing initiatives: capability presentations, workshops, pitch responses, and consultancy engagements that demonstrate…