Senior Program Manager, Google DeepMind Impact Accelerator

Snapshot The role of the Program Management Team is to shape and accelerate the delivery of GDM’s highest priorities. We do this through translating strategy into program plans, implementing efficient ways of working, and developing successful teams to drive end-to-end delivery of our GDM objectives. We provide focus for our teams through co-developing goals and priorities, continually anchoring teams back to these. We always pursue sustainable ways to optimize our work, striving to ensure we cultivate an environment where people can be both highly collaborative and deeply creative, making responsible and groundbreaking progress at pace. We build positive relationships with teams, bringing clarity to ambiguity and providing stability during change. In addition, our program management expertise structures complex projects, and we continuously deepen our technical knowledge, working alongside researchers and engineers 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 Google DeepMind Impact Accelerator (GDI) has a unique role in GDM, to develop solutions and resources built on GDM's technologies and expertise that extend the benefits to humanity. We are a path to real world impact, beyond Alphabet products and services or making our research public. The role As a Senior Program Manager, you will drive the success of all strategic initiatives within the Google DeepMind Impact Accelerator. You will partner with senior leadership across the team, Google DeepMind, Google, and Alphabet to develop strategy into actionable programs, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. You will partner with Pillar Leads and the wider GDI team to effectively drive goals forwards, applyexpert program and portfolio management methodologies, and guide teams through complex, ambiguous environments. You will establish the ways of working in the team, setting norms and processes to provide clarity and consistency. You will also lead and develop a team of Program Managers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration. Key responsibilities Strategy and thought partnership Partner with GDI Leads to understand and align with their objectives and vision, providing effective thought-partnership Collaborate with leadership to refine strategy, representing and communicating it effectively across the team and organization. Set team-wide tools, processes and norms, and enforce those to enable the team to run effectively Translate evolving strategies into a prioritized portfolio of work, providing oversight and insights to inform leadership decisions. Partner with pillar leads to focus their programs into a balanced portfolio that delivers regular results Drive far-reaching buy-in for GDI strategy and impact by enabling effective Leadership and team engagement across internal and external programs and events. Management, delivery and leadership Manage the full portfolio of initiatives, empowering the GDI PgM team, and ensuring alignment with organizational mission and impact. Deliver scoped, complex cross-functional programs of work when required Lead and role model end-to-end program planning and delivery of key priorities when needed, utilizing appropriate program management methodologies and tools. Lead and manage a team of Program Managers to deliver against a range of objectives priorities, providing leadership, advice, coaching, and guidance on projects and programs Drive engagement across the team by building relationships, sharing constructive feedback and challenging esta ... (truncated, view full listing at source)