Organisational Design & Development Lead, 12 month fixed-term contract

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Snapshot

DeepMind has a remarkable track record of scientific breakthroughs. Such extraordinary work is a direct result of the brilliant and diverse groups of people we bring together. Our Operations team work together to maintain, optimise, and nurture our culture to create the best environment in the world for advancing AI research. A place where everyone’s expertise is recognised and where everyone is continually learning and supported to be the best leaders, managers, and collaborators they can be.

About Us

We’re a dedicated scientific community, committed to “solving intelligence” and ensuring our technology is used for widespread public benefit. We’ve built a supportive and inclusive environment where collaboration is encouraged and learning is shared freely. We don’t set limits based on what others think is possible or impossible. We drive ourselves and inspire each other to push boundaries and achieve ambitious goals.

We constantly iterate on our workplace experience with the goal of ensuring it encourages a balanced life. From excellent office facilities through to extensive manager support, we strive to support our people and their needs as effectively as possible.

Our list of benefits is extensive, and we’re happy to discuss this further throughout the interview process!

The Role

To enable our mission, we need to ensure our culture and organisational infrastructure supports performance and engagement. This ranges from diagnosing and designing people development interventions, to supporting M&A activity, to and/or leading on broader organisational development topics. 

We are seeking an Org Design & Development Lead to join our team on a 12 month fixed-term basis. In this role you will partner closely with other P&C teams enabling joined up approaches to some of the key people challenges and opportunities ahead.

Key responsibilities:

• Utilising org development expertise and insights from key internal stakeholders to diagnose the root cause of challenges teams are facing
• Building, tailoring and leveraging development solutions for internal clients, delivered at the point-of-need, to enhance team effectiveness
• Facilitating workshops and discussions for internal clients both virtually and face to face 
• Working in close partnership with People and Culture Partners to identify, prioritise and deliver solutions for teams requiring strategic investment for development
• Measuring and demonstrating accelerated team performance in high priority areas of the business 
• Understanding key cultural trends and functional best practices internally and externally and integrating these into your programmes
• Leading and/or supporting people onboarding and integration activity in the event of any merger/acquisition 
• Any other Org design and development responsibilities as requested by the Org Dev lead, such as growing our Org Design & Development portfolio

About You

• Extensive experience of designing, overseeing and leading engaging and impactful learning sessions (ideally for Tech / Research audiences)
• You have strong communication and engagement skills and experience of leading others through change. 
• You are an established HR or OD professional and have experience aligning people practices to fulfil business strategy, and where necessary building innovative HR practices and frameworks yourself.
• You are a skilled and agile facilitator who can diagnose and manage,  changing and complex people dynamics 
• You thrive on delivering learning sessions to clients, virtual and/or face-to-face
• You are able to lead a team from diagnosing a problem, through to solution creation. 
• Ideally you will also have experience in project and change management, developing and then implementing on roadmaps - adjusting as necessary. 
• You have proven experience of collaborating as part of a wider project team on a shared topic, using your knowledge to help design, plan and implement solutions.
• You are open and curious, listening to feedback from others and adjusting your plans based on challenges that arise along the way.
• You act with confidence and instil trust in everyone you interact with, delivering well thought through solutions - if you don’t know the answer you are tenacious in finding out.
• You exemplify DeepMind’s values of Pioneering, Intentional, AGI- first & Responsible

The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $156000 - $247000 + bonus + benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process.