Program Manager, Marketing & Communications, MTV

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Snapshot:

The role of the Program Management Team is to organise and enable our teams to be the best at what they do and to make fast-paced progress towards our mission. We continually pursue scalable and sustainable ways to optimize teams, striving to ensure we cultivate an environment where people can be both highly collaborative and deeply creative, making responsible and pioneering research progress at pace. We build strong relationships with teams, bringing clarity to ambiguity and providing stability during change. We are active, curious and thoughtful about deepening our understanding of people; their preferences, their needs and their work. We use our coaching skills to support and enable people and teams to do their best work together. We continually deepen our domain knowledge, working alongside colleagues from across the organisation 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:

As a Program Manager focussed on GDM product delivery, you will be a crucial driver of our Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy, with a specific focus on ensuring the successful launch of our highest-priority products, including initiatives related to Gemini and other key Google AI advancements. This role is critical in providing dedicated program ownership and momentum, particularly during peak launch periods. You will work in close partnership with the Google DeepMind (GDM) product and Google AI Marketing & Communications (Marcomms) teams onsite in Mountain View, acting as a vital bridge between team vision and team execution. In this product focused role, you will leverage your experience in delivering in an environment where change and ambiguity are requirements to ship innovative, world-leading products. With a deep understanding of product strategy, and experience guiding executive leaders, you will use your industry expertise to ensure our GTM plans meet Google DeepMind’s goals and overarching mission, with full alignment and buy-in across leadership.   

You will be a strategic partner to leadership, incubating or leading multiple projects, programs, and short-term sprints to support and enable rapid progress in a highly complex space. You will do this through an ability to rapidly learn new context, quickly develop professional relationships, and produce meaningful results in highly ambiguous environments. Given the breadth of work, you will drive strategic execution from planning to delivery, building teams and achieving key  objectives. This role requires Mountain View presence and cross-timezone collaboration with Europe.

Key Responsibilities:

• Program Leadership & Ownership: Lead and own key programs and events required in support of Google DeepMind and Google tentpole moments, particularly high-visibility product and GTM launches. Ensure round-the-clock program ownership, executive buy-in, and momentum for our highest-priority initiatives.
• Escalation Management: Function as a program escalation point for executives, technology, product leadership, and operations teams. Ensure timely and transparent program and project responses to continual changes, securing stakeholder buy-in throughout.
• Google Marcomms Partnership: Serve as a key partner to Google Marcomms teams onsite in Mountain View, representing Google DeepMind vision, goals, and point of view. Ensure clear communication and effective feedback loops to leadership.
• Strategic Portfolio Management: Translate strategy into a portfolio of initiatives; support planning processes; track performance; and identify new programs of work related to GTM activities.
• Strategic Product Management support: Working with Product leadership teams, ensure clear mapping of product strategy to GTM planning and operational capabilities across GDM and Google teams. Develop communication methods, artefacts and signals to enable effective outcomes through 1:1 product - marcomms connectivity. 
• Program Orchestration: Deliver complex, cross-functional programs of work that support the realities of how Product is planned and delivered; set up governance mechanisms; manage reporting and communications for specific GTM programs; and continuously optimize team ways of working.
• Leadership Partnering: Work with executive leadership and key leads across Google,  Marcomms, and other external engagement teams to help build and support team goals and initiatives, consolidating and centralising team efforts in service of overarching program roadmaps and exec-sponsored priority programs.

About You:

• Strong track record of operational and program leadership against a background of high complexity, with tangible outcomes in the domains of product and GTM initiatives.
• Extensive knowledge and expertise in program management, with the proven skill to navigate through ambiguity and adjust and adapt plans and strategies as project conditions change.
• Background in or clear understanding of product marketing, product management, digital delivery, communications and marketing with the ability to apply strategic planning to a wide array of contexts.
• Strong track record of cross-functional coordination across a wide variety of teams and functional areas, and a demonstrated ability to lead within a matrix organization through diplomacy and relationship-building.
• Experience supporting teams in fast-paced and constantly evolving environments, acting as an escalation point, sounding board and coach as teams and individuals go through the change cycle.
• Experience in solving challenging strategic and operational challenges, implementing scalable and sustainable solutions, bringing simplicity to complex processes and ideas.
• Strong communication skills, including presenting compelling ideas to leadership, the ability to develop meaningful relationships with key partners and executive stakeholders, and to use this to influence outcomes across your program.
• You are proactive about acquiring knowledge to enhance the impact you have, demonstrate a curious attitude, and a commitment to learning and understanding more about work within the external engagement sphere.
• You are demonstrably passionate about safe and beneficial AI and proactive about continuous learning and development].
• It’s ideal if you have a deep understanding of product development (ideally in AI-related domains or a start-up environment), with a proven track record of delivering project and operational systems to enable a product vision to be successfully realized and delivered to target audiences.
• Must be based in or willing to relocate to the Mountain View, CA area.