Operating Partner (AI Research), London

Operating Partner (AI Research), London 

This is an extraordinary opportunity to join an Alphabet company that will reimagine drug discovery through a computational- and AI-first approach.

We are a leading, multi-disciplinary team who want to drive forward groundbreaking innovations. You will play a meaningful role in building this team, embodying an inspiring, collaborative and entrepreneurial culture. 

You’ll be working at the cutting edge of the new era of ‘digital biology’ and advancing a new type of biotech that will deliver transformative social impact for the benefit of millions of people. 

Your impact 

As an Operating Partner you'll be part of a small but high bandwidth, highly productive team specialising in catalysing business critical initiatives across Iso through partnership with cross-functional organisational leaders. Together we crystallise the ‘what’ and ‘why’ to unlock the ‘how’ with clarity and at pace, with a commitment to operational excellence and what's right for the organisation, facilitating maximum productivity and progress towards our mission. Agility, organisation and nimbleness are critical and this role will evolve alongside the leadership team’s role and needs as we advance towards our mission.

What you will do 

• You’ll work shoulder-to-shoulder with the Chief AI Officer (CAIO) and their team to deliver and operationalise the highest-priority initiatives in their org areas, in particular where cross-organisational influence and expertise is needed. 
• Drive impact: You’ll enable leaders and their teams to scale effectively by advising and soundboarding on their ideas for how to maximise their impact, focus on the things only they can do and empower and enable those around them; you’ll do this by synthesising outputs from initiatives and teams,problem solving and driving solutions forward. 
• Deliver: While no task is too big or too small, you’ll focus your time and energy on maximising impact and output alongside the CAIO for the benefit of the organisation. You’ll be a doer as well as a thought partner: you’ll follow up, close loops in a timely fashion and drive initiatives to completion in alignment with leadership and organisational needs. You’ll have a keen sense of when to bring things back (e.g. paused/’not yet’ initiatives), achieve alignment and develop a plan to make it happen. 
• Collaborate: You’ll identify what is important/needs to be done by leadership and what can be done by others to support, ensuring clear roles and responsibilities are in place. You’ll build relationships with key stakeholders across Iso to gain a holistic understanding of the organisation, instilling high levels of trust and providing hands-on partnership, counsel and input on important projects, initiatives and decisions. 
• Big picture view: You’ll anticipate and propose solutions to issues and risks and share critical information with key stakeholders and prepare, present and gain agreement on proposals among leadership and then lead and influence teams to execute - leveraging strong leadership, communication and influencing skills and problem solving with creativity and innovation.
• Drive efficiency: You’ll empower others to be maximally efficient by optimising for leanness and proactively spotting and breaking down blockers and inefficiencies, balancing what the organisation needs in the short and longer term with a keen eye for how to scale most efficiently and effectively.
• Prioritise: You’ll assess what’s most important vs doing everything by clearly disambiguating what’s ok to be ‘good enough’ from what will turbo-charge the organisation; you’ll do this in partnership with leads and other partner roles e.g. StratOps partners, EAs, TPMs and product by connecting people, ideas and thinking to proactively drive a joined-up approach.

Skills and qualifications

Essential:

• Experience partnering with leaders in fast-paced and constantly changing environments, acting as a sounding board on important projects, initiatives and decisions and as individuals go through the change cycle.  
• You’re confident engaging with technical topics and initiatives even when you don’t have a deep understanding, and you have the ability to probe, synthesise information and move conversations forward. 
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and enjoy environments where you can implement creative and innovative ideas and solutions which drive organisational performance. You can adapt to the needs of the organisation and are highly resilient. 
• You enjoy variety and have a ‘get stuck in’ mentality - no task is too big or too small. 
• You are experienced in breaking complexity down to make tangible, positive progress across the organisation by prioritising, planning and executing with clarity and pace.
• You are able to act and communicate with confidence in a high performance culture, instilling trust in everyone you interact with, delivering well thought through solutions. You can turn your hand to most things and if you don’t know the answer you are tenacious in finding out.
• You demonstrate a curious attitude and role model commitment to learning and understanding more about work across the whole organisation to enhance the impact of you and others. 
• You’re highly organised, resourceful and have proven experience  managing your own work and projects. 
• You enjoy operating independently but love being part of a highly supportive and collaborative team. You share information and understand that succeed or fail, we do so as a team.
• You are looking for a career defining role and are ready to commit to this long term mission. The chance to be a key part of something extraordinary; the opportunity to make a real difference.

Nice to have:

• Experience in a Chief of Staff or similar role 
• Knowledge and experience in utilising coaching techniques to support individuals from diverse backgrounds in a dynamic environment
• Experience in performing a similar role in a start-up or other high growth organisation
• Knowledge of life sciences, AI and/or Tech