Strategy and Operations Principal

Mountain View, California, US

Snapshot

We’re looking for an extraordinarily capable and enthusiastic individual to work closely on a high-performing team, responsible for in-house consulting projects to help Google DeepMind leadership answer strategic questions essential to Google DeepMind’s success, including realising the most impactful applications of our research. This role is integral to the achievement of Google DeepMind’s mission and requires someone who can bridge Google DeepMind research and Google’s industry-leading products, platforms and technologies to pave the way towards an inclusive AGI-enabled future.

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

The role of Principal of Strategy and Operations is as a leader whose purpose is to inform research and product direction, identify new areas of potential product / technical exploration, ultimately in service of maximizing the impact of our research. This individual shows up at all times with curiosity, intellectual rigour, honesty, respect and humility. The Principal role collaborates with senior leaders across Google DeepMind and Alphabet, has a breadth of responsibility, and works with the broader Strategy and Operations team to deliver impact.  

This specific role will be responsible for partnering with specific teams and research areas to explore and drive potential product and commercial opportunities. This requires a deep understanding of the research direction, market opportunity, and then translating into tangible so-whats and specific recommendations for internal audiences and decision makers.  

Key responsibilities

Each day in this role is different; in addition to adapting to rapidly evolving environment and opportunity areas, you’ll also deliver against a core set of critical tasks:

  • Drive strategic research, analyze quantitative and qualitative data to support actionable insights and recommendations
  • Initiate and evaluate new opportunities and develop compelling vision; directly support investigation and incubation as needed 
  • Deliver and evolve productization and commercialization strategy and operations efforts for your portfolio of work 
  • Anticipate strategic and operational issues before they arise and resolve them
  • Balance scope, speed and quality.  Do so in fast paced and rapidly evolving environment 
  • Building trusted relationships across Google DeepMind and Google to ensure effective partnership

About you

In order to set you up for success as a Strategy and Operations Principal at Google DeepMind, we look for the following skills and experience:

  • Strong understanding of AI technology and its applications, and relevant perspective on what matters and why in the future. Direct experience with AI-Driven business and product strategy is required. Direct experience with AI research is a plus. 
  • Highly independent and self starter - relentlessly finding new opportunities to pursue, quickly identifying which have merit and taking ownership of stakeholder engagement 
  • Strong problem solving and analytical capabilities that underpin the creation of objective and effective solutions. Comfort with independently working with quantitative data and of structuring quantitative analysis
  • Ability to apply top-down strategic thinking to complex, ambiguous and unfamiliar problems and translate into pragmatic solutions and / or proposed path forward. 
  • Strong leadership skills and ability to work cross functionally and collaboratively. Coming in with a proven track record of senior stakeholder management. Deep understanding of Google’s business and key exec stakeholders is a plus.  
  • Ability to hold both bold and responsible considerations together in all analyses and recommendations.
  • Move at pace. Strong bias towards action and responsible execution. Operating with urgency in order to accelerate the bold and responsible impact Google DeepMind can have on the world.   

In addition, the following would be an advantage: 

  • PhD in relevant field 
  • Direct experience in Science, including Materials.  Other areas such as Health, Cybersecurity, Chips also a plus 
  • Proven track record in going 0 → 1 / new product launches 
  • Adept at creating clarity. Skilled communicator, able to present both verbally and in writing, and deal tactfully with a diverse array of individuals. Experience delivering clear and concise recommendations and updates to leadership team(s). 
  • Responsive and resilient to difficult, ambiguous and sometimes changing objectives
  • Experience in contributing to functionally, geographically and culturally diverse team

The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $180,000 - $267,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process.

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