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title: "AI Automation Director SEO"
company: "Dentsu"
job_type: "Full Time"
location: "leeds, west yorkshire, United Kingdom"
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posted: "2026-10-04"
url: "https://www.seojobs.com/job/ai-automation-director-seo-dentsu/"
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# AI Automation Director SEO

**Company:** Dentsu

**Location:** leeds, west yorkshire, United Kingdom

**Job type:** Full Time

**Posted:** 2026-10-04

**Apply:** [https://uk.whatjobs.com/coopob__cpl___747_30942537__4127?utm_source=4127&utm_medium=feed&keyword=AI-Automation-Director&location=leeds&geoID=918](https://uk.whatjobs.com/coopob__cpl___747_30942537__4127?utm_source=4127&utm_medium=feed&keyword=AI-Automation-Director&location=leeds&geoID=918)

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**Overview**

As AI & Automation Director, you will lead the design and delivery of AI-powered automation across the SEO practice, driving efficiency and scalable innovation. You will balance strategic leadership with hands-on delivery, turning business needs into secure, repeatable automation solutions. You will partner with client teams and internal stakeholders to articulate value, govern governance and risk, and advance the agency’s AI-enabled capabilities. This role offers the chance to shape automation strategy, build reusable components, and elevate client outcomes in a fast-moving environment.

 **Pay / Benefits**

- permanent role
- flexible working arrangements in London
- competitive salary
- tailorable benefits package

 **Responsibilities**

- AI, Automation & Agent Development: design/build/test/deploy automation solutions; develop AI agents and workflows; automate repetitive tasks using Power Automate and Copilot Agents; drive process improvements; support innovative client-facing AI products; monitor performance and iterate for adoption and impact

 **Key requirements**

- Demonstrable experience designing and delivering automation or AI-enabled workflows in a business setting
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Power Automate and Microsoft Copilot Studio (or comparable tools)
- Background in coding or technical development; experience with Claude Code or Cursor is advantageous
- Ability to translate operational/client challenges into clear technical requirements and practical solutions
- Experience scoping initiatives and delivering from discovery to adoption
- Strong understanding of responsible AI, information security, privacy and governance
- Confident stakeholder management and ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Experience delivering training and supporting organisational change and adoption
- SEO, search marketing or digital delivery experience is a major advantage

- Stakeholder management
- Clear communication to non-technical audiences
- Problem-solving with a pragmatic, test-and-learn mindset
- Microsoft Power Automate
- Microsoft Copilot Studio
- Claude Code