Senior Program Manager, Google DeepMind Impact Accelerator

About the Role

The Program Management Team at Google DeepMind shapes and accelerates the delivery of the company’s highest priorities. This involves translating strategy into program plans, implementing efficient ways of working, and developing successful teams to drive end-to-end delivery of GDM objectives. They provide focus for teams by co-developing goals and priorities, continually anchoring teams back to these. They pursue sustainable ways to optimize work, striving to cultivate an environment where people can be both highly collaborative and deeply creative, making responsible and groundbreaking progress at pace. They build positive relationships with teams, bringing clarity to ambiguity and providing stability during change. Their program management expertise structures complex projects, and they continuously deepen their technical knowledge, working alongside researchers and engineers to ensure all work advances towards their mission. The Google DeepMind Impact Accelerator (GDI) has a unique role within GDM to develop solutions and resources built on GDM's technologies and expertise that extend the benefits to humanity, acting as a path to real-world impact beyond Alphabet products and services or making research public. As a Senior Program Manager, you will drive the success of all strategic initiatives within the Google DeepMind Impact Accelerator, partnering with senior leadership across GDM, Google, and Alphabet to translate strategy into actionable programs, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.

Responsibilities

• Partner with GDI Leads to understand and align with their objectives and vision, providing effective thought-partnership.
• Collaborate with leadership to refine strategy, representing and communicating it effectively across the team and organization.
• Set team-wide tools, processes and norms, and enforce those to enable the team to run effectively.
• Translate evolving strategies into a prioritized portfolio of work, providing oversight and insights to inform leadership decisions.
• Partner with pillar leads to focus their programs into a balanced portfolio that delivers regular results.
• Drive far-reaching buy-in for GDI strategy and impact by enabling effective Leadership and team engagement across internal and external programs and events.
• Manage the full portfolio of initiatives, empowering the GDI PgM team, and ensuring alignment with organizational mission and impact.
• Deliver scoped, complex cross-functional programs of work when required.
• Lead and role model end-to-end program planning and delivery of key priorities when needed, utilizing appropriate program management methodologies and tools.
• Lead and manage a team of Program Managers to deliver against a range of objectives & priorities, providing leadership, advice, coaching, and guidance on projects and programs.
• Drive engagement across the team by building relationships, sharing constructive feedback and challenging established ways of thinking.
• Ensure and proactively shape culture to ensure best practices in program management across the team: tracking progress, managing risks, communicating effectively, regular retrospectives, etc.
• Coach teams through fostering collaboration, driving engagement, and providing clear communication in pursuit of clearly defined goals.

Requirements

• Experience working with senior leadership, confidently communicating challenges and risks while proposing new solutions.
• A track record of leading and delivering complex projects and programs in an ambiguous environment involving AI.
• Extensive expertise in portfolio and program management, with a proven ability to navigate ambiguity and adapt to change.
• Proven ability to navigate fast-paced, ever-evolving environments, demonstrating resourcefulness and creativity in solving complex challenges and implementing scalable solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to improve processes, workflows, and governance models to enhance efficiency with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence outcomes.

Qualifications

• Ability to effectively cultivate a collaborative environment, leveraging the expertise of others and empowering & motivating team members to overcome challenges and find solutions.
• Proactive learner with a curious attitude and a passion for advancing AI and social impact.
• Favours pragmatism over perfection, anticipating both challenges to and opportunities for impact across your focus areas.