Opening. This role is part of the Central Programs team, leading large-scale strategic initiatives, leveraging a unique vantage point to address the business’s current and future needs. Collaborating across all functions, the team’s core purpose is to deliver high-impact priorities that enable Google DeepMind to accelerate toward its mission.
What you'll do
This role involves navigating a diverse portfolio of company-wide programs to scope, shape, and execute critical deliverables. This role will partner with teams across the organization to build structural direction, craft creative solutions, and simplify complexity to ensure long-term success.
Key responsibilities
- Lead High Priority Initiatives: Lead large-scale, cross-functional programs in complex areas, leveraging technical domain understanding to bridge strategy and execution.
- Drive Delivery: Manage end-to-end program design and delivery, utilizing methodologies like critical path management and dependency tracking to enable data-driven decision-making.
- Influence & Align: Partner with senior stakeholders to foster alignment, adapting approaches accordingly, and proactively sharing critical information to influence key decisions and outcomes.
- Translate Strategy: Collaborate with leaders and researchers 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.
- Elevate the Team: Collaborate with and coach peers to remove blockers, helping individuals overcome challenges.
- 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.
What you need
This role requires an innovative, collaborative problem solver with significant experience leading large-scale programs. You must have excellent judgment, strong communication skills, and a passion for continuous learning.
Key Qualifications:
- Program Management: Extensive experience managing complex, sizeable programs and organizational change, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and adapt strategies.
- Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to partner with senior stakeholders, navigate conflicting priorities, and influence outcomes through strong relationships.
- Leadership: Experience leading and influencing teams in fast-paced, evolving environments (Research/Product/Tech preferred).
- 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.
