Senior Technical Program Manager, Technical Operations & Analytics

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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

As a Technical Program Manager in the Portfolio & Process Management (PPM) team, part of the Technical Operations & Analytics (TO&A) team, you will play a crucial role in partnering with the lead and other team members, working across a varied number of priority initiatives. These topics span portfolio management, investment and impact understanding of research work, portfolio management processes, and related technological infrastructure. This position requires project management expertise, consulting toolkit on problem-solving, and the ability to seamlessly collaborate with stakeholders across the organization.

Key responsibilities:

• Strategic Consultancy: Support the TO&A Director and PPM Lead with assessment of opportunities and challenges within the team's scope, providing tailored plans and strategies for rolling  out impactful solutions. Producing regular targeted communications to leadership, research and engineering teams.
• Portfolio Tooling & Insights: Drive the creation of portfolio tooling and workflows to enhance impact and investment tracking, roadmap visibility, transfer of research, and identification of risks. Continuously evolve process and tooling to support xGDM portfolio health.
• Portfolio Optimisation: Design and implement portfolio management frameworks for effective resource allocation, communication, and priority alignment. Proactively identify risks and cross-portfolio patterns.
• Data Analytics: Independently conduct portfolio data-analysis, present findings, and collaborate with the data analytics team on complex analysis and on developing new analytics solutions that further enhance portfolio analysis.
• Project management: Overseeing complex projects undertaken by the team, ensuring dependencies are understood and risks are proactively managed.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build strong partnerships with stakeholders across all levels, understanding their needs and translating them into actionable solutions.
• Team Coaching and Development: Support the development of junior members by providing coaching, guidance, and mentorship to the portfolio management team. Foster a collaborative and high-performing environment.

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:

• Portfolio Management: Excellent understanding of portfolio management principles and best practices, incl. resource allocation, risk management, and performance tracking. Ability to analyze portfolio performance, identify trends, and make data-driven recommendations for optimization.
• Initiative and Problem-Solving: Demonstrated ability to identify challenges, break-down complex problems, and proactively develop individual sustainable solutions towards the overall outcome.
• Technical Proficiency: Understanding of technical concepts and ability to communicate complex ideas effectively.
  Stakeholder Management: Proven communication and relationship-building skills to work effectively with diverse stakeholders. Ability to collaborate with and influence stakeholders outside of the core team.
• Executive Communication: Drive exec level comms and comfortable with presenting to executives and in landing difficult messages with Directors+
• Adaptability: Comfortable in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities and comfortable with embracing ambiguity.
• Strong analytical skills and SQL: Including the ability to independently formulate data queries, analyse results, and present insights.

In addition, the following would be an advantage: 

• Understanding of AI/Machine Learning concepts and applications and excitement about the research space.
• Experience in project management or product development
• Familiarity with Google processes and/or teams 

Application deadline: 24th January 2025, 8am PST.

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