About the Role
- Program Managers at Google DeepMind (GDM) are crucial in shaping and accelerating the delivery of the company’s highest priority programs. They optimize work for scalability and sustainability, fostering an environment of collaboration and creativity. They build positive relationships with teams, bringing clarity to ambiguity and stability during change, and act as curious and thoughtful partners dedicated to understanding people and driving successful outcomes. By deepening their domain expertise, they ensure every initiative contributes directly to GDM's mission.
- Google DeepMind is a pioneering AI lab with world-class interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. The company emphasizes using its technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, always prioritizing safety and ethics. DeepMind is pushing boundaries across multiple domains, offering diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.
- This pivotal role within the Office of the CEO (OCEO) focuses on architecting and managing the OCEO information ecosystem and portfolio. The role involves designing and managing a holistic and highly effective information ecosystem for the OCEO, ensuring smooth information flows within the team, to the CEO and Chief of Staff (CoS), and to key OCEO partner teams across GDM and Google. This is critical for breaking down information silos, creating transparency, and supporting robust decision-making. The role also includes overseeing and supporting high-priority leadership forums, acting as a strategic partner to the CoS and CEO by advising on agenda priorities, ensuring timely information access, upholding reporting standards, and documenting/tracking meeting outputs. Furthermore, it involves continuous improvement and optimization of information flows, leveraging data and AI to streamline communications, reduce noise, and surface critical information, as well as clarifying roles, responsibilities, and implementing standardized processes. The OCEO team operates as a tight and lean unit, requiring a high degree of communication, trust, and organization for successful execution.
Responsibilities
- Drive Delivery: Manage end-to-end program design and delivery
- Influence & Align: Partner with senior stakeholders to foster alignment, adapting approaches accordingly, and proactively sharing critical information and data analysis to influence key decisions and outcomes.
- Translate Strategy: Collaborate with leaders to translate strategic ambitions into clear objectives, managing risks and offering creative solutions.
- Navigate Complexity: Navigate ambiguous environments to drive and track progress towards program outcomes.
- Optimize Operations: Identify opportunities to improve ways of working, tools, or processes, ensuring the right conditions exist for pioneering, mission-focused work.
- Drive Engagement: Foster team engagement by building strong relationships, providing constructive feedback, and challenging established thinking to achieve their full potential.
- Measure Impact: Evaluate program success against goals and share lessons and insights across the wider business.
Requirements
- Program Management: Experience managing complex programs with the ability to navigate ambiguity and adapt strategies.
- Stakeholder Management: Ability to partner with senior stakeholders, navigate conflicting priorities, and influence outcomes through strong relationships.
- Mindset: Naturally curious, proactive about learning, and passionate about the Google DeepMind mission
- AI Fluency: Ability and curiosity to use AI tools practically and effectively in your work, with a recognition and awareness of AI’s responsible use, risks, and limitations.
Qualifications
- Systems Thinking: You have the ability to create something from nothing, navigating ambiguity to design and deploy scalable organizational systems and governance models.
- Complex Execution: You are a finisher who thrives in fast-paced environments, capable of taking a broad idea and building a robust execution plan without requiring a pre-defined roadmap.
- Operational Precision: You have an uncompromising attention to detail, ensuring everything is produced to the highest standard of accuracy.
- Discretion and Judgement: You operate with the highest level of integrity and confidentiality, understanding how to manage sensitive information within the CEO's office while maintaining impartiality.
- Collaborative Influence: You are an expert at building high-trust relationships, allowing you to steward standards and drive accountability through influence rather than mandate.
- Analytical Rigour: You are a strategic translator who can cut through noise to provide the precise data and insights needed to influence the organization.
- Leadership Alignment: You have the ability to understand and align with leadership styles, priorities, and decision-making approaches, allowing you to act with minimal friction.
- No task is too big or too small, you can adapt to the changing needs of OCEO and company