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 outputs and optimse 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.
Monday you’re prototyping a video generation workflow for a campaign delivery. Tuesday you’re running a client workshop on what AI production can (and can’t) deliver. Wednesday you’re deep in a pipeline build for a product shoot. Thursday you’re collaborating with various village teams in concepting and playing with different ways to bring a campaign to life. Friday you’re presenting to Havas Village leadership on where creative AI is heading next quarter, and you’ve 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.
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.
This isn’t a job at a holding company production line. This is an entrepreneurial operation being built inside the Havas Village, with the backing of a global network but the energy and pace of a startup. We’re deliberately different. We believe that matters.
The chance to build, not inherit. The team, the workflows, the standards, the culture. It all needs to be created. That's the job.
Access to Havas’s global production network: Creative AI Directors in New York, Paris, and London, a dedicated Studio AI team, and specialist workflow partner.
The Havas Village model: creative, media, PR, digital, and content under one roof. Real briefs, real budgets, real clients. Not a sandbox.
The backing of Havas’s Converged.AI investment, including the AVA global AI portal, Vermeer.ai, and the broader ecosystem. But with the freedom to find, test, and adopt the best tools from anywhere in the market.
Send your CV and a portfolio or reel of your AI creative work.
If you’ve built workflows, trained models, or shipped AI-assisted creative that went into market, we want to see it. If you’ve taught others how to do it, tell us about that too. If you’ve broken something interesting along the way, even better.
