Senior Associate / Associate Principal, Office of the CEO - 12 month Fixed Term Contract

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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

This role will lead project segments with business units and teams across GDM on a range of projects within the CEO’s portfolio. You will partner closely with Unit leads, Program Managers and teams across multiple functions to strategically plan, prioritise, and execute critical initiatives. 

This role will require influence and credibility, driving project outcomes  in partnership with the organisation that span multiple functions, and have a direct impact on Google DeepMind’s mission. Agility and nimbleness is critical; this role will evolve alongside the CEO’s role as we progress towards our mission. 

The Office of the CEO (OCEO) team works as a tight and lean unit and successful execution requires a high degree of communication, trust, and organisation.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with leaders, program managers and other teams to deliver critical programs and maximise the success of the CEO’s engagement with key initiatives across the business.
• Create strong partnerships with key stakeholders across Google DeepMind; instilling high levels of trust across the organisation, driving project outcomes with and through others, contributing to project scoping, making daily decisions, and providing progress updates with only initial guidance on the goal. 
• Prepare, present and gain agreement among others with similar objectives to align direction and guide integration of adjacent work and teams. 
• Leverage specialist internal expertise to make recommendations, with influence and credibility, on pivotal decisions
• Build trusted relationships across Google and Alphabet, to enable the progress of critical programs and help facilitate implementation

About you

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

• You have a track record of contributing to complex and critical projects, in collaboration with internal and external partners, from start to finish
• You have formed part of a team who work closely with senior executives, ideally in direct support 
• Experience collaborating and influencing senior leaders and executive to define, develop and prioritise programs, forming high trust relationships across an organisation
• Skilled at written and verbal communications, including emails, memos and presentations, across audiences of all sizes and backgrounds
• A strong problem solver, you possess exceptional analytical skills, with a proven ability to bring structure to ambiguity and a bias to action
• Experience in contributing to functionally, geographically and culturally diverse teams
• Possessing high degrees of resilience, you seek out feedback and strive for continuous improvement. With confidence, you ask questions, make suggestions, and kindly challenge when needed
• Awareness and a firm comprehension of the Google DeepMind organisation, understanding how to get things done and an ability to proactively connect dots to further enable progress
• No task is too big or too small, you can adapt to the changing needs of OCEO and company
• Trustworthy, discreet and impartial, with a high level of integrity and excellent sense of judgement
• You role model a positive team environment and culture that promotes learning and high performance
• Excited about AI technologies and making a long-term contribution to Google DeepMind

Deadline to apply: 28th August 2024 

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Last updated on Aug 22, 2024