Program Manager, Responsibility (18 Month Fixed Term Contract)

About Us Artificial Intelligence could be one of humanity’s most useful inventions. At Google DeepMind, we’re a team of scientists, engineers, machine learning experts and more, working together to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, and collaborate with others on critical challenges, ensuring safety and ethics are the highest priority.

Snapshot The role of the Program Management Team is to organise and enable teams at Google DeepMind to be the best at what they do and to make fast-paced progress towards our mission. We continually pursue scalable and sustainable ways to optimise research, striving to ensure we cultivate an environment where people can be both highly collaborative and deeply creative, making responsible and pioneering research progress at pace. We build strong relationships with teams, bringing clarity to ambiguity and providing stability during change.

The Role We are looking for a Program Manager to join our Responsibility team at Google DeepMind. This role will provide hands-on Program Management support to the Responsibility Operations, Research and Engineering teams. You will work with teams at Google DeepMind to ensure that our work is conducted in line with ethics and safety best practices, ensuring the downstream impacts of Google DeepMind’s research and its applications are considered. As a Program Manager, you will apply program management methodologies to multiple initiatives, balancing progress and risk to deliver sustainable change to meet objectives.

Key responsibilities:

• Work with your team on all required elements of end-to-end project planning and delivery, using your knowledge of project methodologies including tools and techniques such as stand ups, retrospectives, agile boards, project plans etc
• Be the trusted owner of the status of your projects. Clearly identify dependencies, risks and issues, and drive progress and visibility.
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders and influence action and outcomes without direct authority, ensuring alignment among the stakeholders.
• Be highly organized, self-motivated, and drive process improvements and efficiencies, streamlining processes, simplify execution, and bring tooling efficiencies if applicable.
• Support the drive for engagement across the team by building and maintaining relationships, sharing constructive feedback, challenging established ways of thinking and inspiring them to achieve their full potential
• Prioritise effectively and evaluate the success of programs against their aims, goals and objectives.
• Manage cross-team collaborations and dependencies across the organisation.

About You In order to set you up for success as a Program Manager at Google DeepMind, we look for the following skills and experience:

• Prior experience and expertise in project/program management with the skill to navigate through ambiguity and adjust and adapt plans and strategies as project conditions change
• You are passionate about AGI, and demonstrate a curious mindset and a commitment to learning and understanding your team’s technical field
• Experience building collaborative environments, bridging the gap between researchers, engineers and stakeholders, ensuring everyone is working towards a shared vision.
• You're a natural problem-solver, readily identifying the root causes of complex challenges to implement elegant solutions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to develop meaningful relationships with key stakeholders and leverage these to influence action and outcomes
• Experience supporting teams in fast-paced and constantly changing environments, acting as a sounding board as individuals go through the change cycle and supporting during challenging times

In addition, the following would be an advantage:

• BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
• Knowledge or active interest of AI Safety risks

At Google DeepMind, we value diversity of experience, knowledge, backgrounds and perspectives and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us know.

Application deadline: Thursday 5th June 2025

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