Senior Program Manager, Central Programs

Snapshot

The role of the Program Management Team is to shape and accelerate the delivery of GDM’s highest priority programs to make fast-paced progress towards our mission. We continually pursue scalable and sustainable ways to optimize our work, striving to ensure we cultivate an environment where people can be both highly collaborative and deeply creative, making progress at pace. We build positive relationships with teams, bringing clarity to ambiguity and providing stability during change. We are active, curious and thoughtful about deepening our understanding of people and driving successful outcomes on programs. We continually deepen our domain knowledge to ensure all our work is advancing towards our mission.

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.

The role

Sitting within our wider Operations Group, this role is part of the Central Programs team. This team leads and delivers large, strategic programs across the business. Collaborating closely with all of GDM’s functions, Central Programs has a unique central viewpoint of the business’ current and future needs with its core purpose to successfully deliver our highest priority and most impactful initiatives, enabling Google DeepMind to grow, thrive and accelerate towards the mission in the most effective way possible.

In this role you will continually move across a variety of high priority, company-wide programs to scope, shape and deliver against critical and continually evolving deliverables and set programs up for long term success. Working with partners across all teams, you'll build direction and structure, craft creative solutions and simplify complexity.

Key responsibilities

• Lead large-scale, cross-functional programs to enable rapid progress in highly complex areas, leveraging and developing technical domain understanding
• Drive end-to-end program design, planning and delivery, using your knowledge of program methodologies including tools and techniques such as critical path management, program planning, dependency tracking, program reporting and decision making 
• Partner with multiple senior stakeholders across the organisation, adapting your approach accordingly. Proactively share critical program information with key decision makers, influencing positive outcomes and fostering alignment.
• Partner with leaders, researchers, engineers and wider teams to translate strategic ambitions into clear objectives, handle risks, anticipate issues and offer creative solutions
• Navigate an ambiguous and changeable environment to drive and track progress towards program outcomes
• See and progress opportunities to improve ways of working, tools or processes
• Lead and collaborate with other program managers and provide coaching for individuals to overcome challenges and ensure the conditions are right to enable teams to produce pioneering and mission focused work
• Support and drive engagement across the team by building relationships, sharing constructive feedback, challenging established ways of thinking and inspiring team members to achieve their full potential
• Evaluate the success of programs against their aims, goals and objectives, and share lessons and insight across the wider business

About you

This role requires someone who is innovative and collaborative in their approach to problem solving. It’s crucial you have significant experience leading and managing large-scale programs, excellent judgement and communication skills and a passion for continuous learning.

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

• Extensive experience in managing sizeable programs across a variety of operating environments, with the proven skill to navigate through ambiguity and adjust and adapt program strategies as conditions change
• Experience in managing large complex programs and organisational change, solving challenges and implementing sustainable solutions
• Extensive experience partnering with senior stakeholders, adapting approach to stakeholder preferences and navigating conflicting priorities
• Strong communicator, able to develop meaningful relationships with key partners and use these to influence action and outcomes
• Experience in leading individuals from a diverse set of backgrounds in an ambitious program environment
• Experience supporting teams in f