Senior Technical Program Manager, Data

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Senior Technical Program Manager Data at DeepMind

London, UK

At Google DeepMind, we value diversity of experience, knowledge, backgrounds, and perspectives, and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, or related condition including breastfeeding, or any other basis as protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us know.

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 continually 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 technical progress at pace. We build positive relationships with teams, bringing clarity to ambiguity, and providing stability during change. Collaborating across org boundaries & roles to pull in the right expertise at the right time. This allows us to provide a holistic view of what's happening across GDM to identify early signals, insights, and risks with recommended actions. 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 role

This is a Senior Technical Program Manager role partnering with teams across our Data function. This collaborative, diverse group is situated primarily in London with some teams in Mountain View and partners closely with a wide variety of internal stakeholders across Google DeepMind and Google's Cloud and Infrastructure teams. This is a leadership role within Google DeepMind's Data Operations Team with line management responsibility as well as opportunities to act as an IC and Technical Program Manager. The Data Operations Team is accountable for enabling GDM to train the best models with the best data.

Key responsibilities

• **Team Technical Leadership:** Develop and lead a dedicated team of technical program managers. Ability to navigate rapidly evolving conditions and a competitive landscape including pivoting strategy to keep pace with research and leading with resilience.

• **Strategic Collaboration and Vision:** Partner closely with research and engineering leads to develop strategy and overall priorities across the platform and infrastructure organization. Partner with internal teams to accelerate development of state-of-the-art infrastructure and tooling for data collection and processing.

• **Data Driven Insights and Driving Organizational Change:** Define metrics and achievements to accelerate discovery, evaluate the success of programs against their aims, goals, and objectives, and share lessons and insights across the wider business. Conduct regular retrospectives on successes and failures and provide independent analysis. Drive change in a matrix organization through relationships, clear and motivating ideas, and strong change management.

About you

In order to set you up for success in this role, we look for the following skills and experience:

• Possess extensive industry experience in the field of Data to partner on technical strategy with leaders.

• Extensive knowledge and expertise in technical program management with the proven skill to navigate through ambiguity, adjust and adapt plans and strategies as project conditions change.

• Extensive line management experience supporting the development of pioneering professionals and capable leaders.

• Ability to quickly learn new technical domains, gaining sufficient working knowledge to understand the challenges and risks while balancing perspective and holding a broader view of trade-offs and opportunities.

• Experience supporting teams in fast-paced environments to drive large-scale program delivery from concept to completion, leading through multiple evolutions along the way.

• Demonstrated ability to prioritize, adapt to change, and provide flexible thought partnership in a rapidly evolving landscape.

• Experience in partnering with senior engineering leadership and bringing straightforward solutions to complex spaces, both interpersonal and technical.

• Strong communication skills, ability to develop meaningful relationships with key partners, and use this to influence action and outcomes.

• Desire to continue hands-on delivery, contributing to the most critical Technical Infrastructure challenges as and where needed.

Opening date: Tuesday 7th May 2024

Closing date: Tuesday 21st May 2024, 12pm BST

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