Program Manager, Science & Strategic Initiatives

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The role of the Program Management Team is to organise and enable our research teams 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  build strong relationships with teams, bringing clarity to ambiguity and providing stability during change.

Artificial Intelligence could be one of humanity’s most useful inventions. At Google Deep Mind, 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.

The role will be to lead and shape complex programs in Google Deep Mind’s Science and Strategic Initiatives Unit, spanning critical areas such as AI application to scientific challenges (including LLMs and agents), provenance and watermarking technologies for generative media (like Synth

ID), and Computer Science research (such as Alpha Evolve).

There will also be the opportunity to work on projects and processes spanning across the Science and Strategic Initiatives Unit.

• Drive all required elements of end-to-end project planning and delivery, using your knowledge of project methodologies including tools and techniques such as retrospectives, agile boards, project plans, risk trackers, etc
• Create clarity and resolve ambiguity. Work with your team to organise and optimise research into clear goals and objectives.
• Directly apply your technical understanding and acquired knowledge of your effort domains to inform effort strategy and drive delivery.
• Work with leadership, the team, and partners to translate the research outcomes into Commercial, Societal and Reputational impact. This could take the form of products, demos, publications, external partnerships and more.
• Drive strategic partnerships with industry leaders and external platforms to foster ecosystem-wide adoption of research outcomes.
• Facilitate conversations, meetings and opportunities for collaboration to drive the best outcomes; create connections and relationships
• Track progress, maintain up to date information and relevant technical documentation, anticipate and propose solutions to issues and risks
• Identify opportunities to improve ways of working, tools or processes
• Proactively identify requirements such as technical dependencies or the need for compute
• Coach individuals to overcome challenges and ensure the conditions are in place to enable teams to produce pioneering and mission focused work
• Lead brainstorms and idea sharing, identify key themes, simplify complex problems and discover solutions
• Lead 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
• Track the success of programs against their aims, goals and objectives
• Demonstrate a curious mindset and a commitment to learning and understanding your team’s technical field.

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

• Knowledge and expertise in project/program management with the…