Program Manager, Communications, DeepMind

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience working in communications/business operations or other communications program coordination (either in house or agency).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience supporting teams in fast-paced and constantly evolving environments, acting as a sounding board and coach as individuals go through the change cycle.
• Experience solving challenging operational challenges, implementing scalable and sustainable solutions, and bringing simplicity to complex processes and ideas.
• Strong communication skills, and ability to develop meaningful relationships with key partners and executive stakeholders and use this to influence outcomes.
• Proficiency with project management, communications tools, and marketing technology stacks.

About the job:

As a Program Manager, you will lead complex programs stemming out of our external and internal engagement teams - partnering most closely with our communications team. You’ll need to apply program management methodologies to multiple initiatives simultaneously, balancing progress and risk to deliver sustainable change to meet objectives. You will be adept at navigating ambiguity, guiding and enabling teams to be both highly creative and collaborative. You will use your expertise to coach others and develop consistent approaches to project and program management.

You will be a strategic partner to leadership, incubating or leading multiple projects, programs, and/or short-term initiatives to support and enable rapid progress in a highly complex space. You will do this through an ability to rapidly learn new context, quickly develop professional relationships, and produce meaningful results. You will work with teams across multiple time zones, particularly across the Americas and Europe.

Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority.

We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.

Responsibilities:

• Translate strategy into a portfolio of initiatives; supporting planning processes, performance tracking, and identification of new programs of work.
• Deliver complex, cross-functional programs of work; setting up governance mechanisms, managing reporting and comms for specific programs, and continued optimization of teams ways of working.
• Oversee and manage the planning and coordination of DeepMind’s presence at a number of high profile external events.
• Work with leads across comms and other external engagement teams (policy, marketing, product and research) to develop team strategies; sharing insights on operational improvements, optimizing meeting structures and information flow between teams and its cross-functional partners, and budget management.