People & Culture Partner, Research

Location: This role is available in either our NYC or MTV office.

At Google DeepMind, we value diversity of experience, knowledge, backgrounds and perspectives and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us know.

Snapshot 

Google DeepMind has a remarkable track record of scientific breakthroughs. Such extraordinary work is a direct result of the brilliant and diverse group of people we bring together. Our People & Culture team work together to maintain, optimise, and cultivate 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 

Artificial Intelligence could be one of humanity’s most useful inventions. At Google DeepMind, we’re a team of scientists, engineers, machine learning experts, operations teams 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 our team expands and evolves, we are looking for a People and Culture Partner to partner closely with Research teams in the Bay Area and the East Coast, and closely collaborate with the wider People and Culture team in our London, Mountain View and New York City offices.
You will spend the majority of your time working with Research teams, in addition to contributing to projects to build tools and programs to support our culture, Google DeepMinders, managers and leaders.

Key responsibilities:

• Deliver high impact solutions to challenges including change management, organizational design, leadership capability and career development.
• Establish positive relationships with leaders and teams across the organization by demonstrating empathy and building understanding and trust quickly.
• Operate in an extremely organized manner, working quickly and balancing many different tasks, while being proactive and anticipating what needs to be done ahead of time.
• Operate creatively and implement innovative, well thought through solutions in a rapidly changing and sometimes ambiguous environment.
• Be an effective and trusted adviser, coaching managers on a 1:1 basis to develop their skills, improve team performance and meet organizational goals.
• Take a data driven approach to partnering, using data and research in making recommendations or implementing changes.
• Operate independently leading your own work and projects while also working in a highly encouraging and collaborative team. Share information and support the growth and development of others in your team, understanding that succeed or fail, we do so as a team!

About you

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

• Extensive experience operating as an HR professional, preferably in a mix of small but fast growing businesses and larger companies.
• Experience building innovative HR practices and frameworks and navigating organizational complexity.
• Preferably, some experience with post-merger integration and culture change.
• You enjoy a blend of partnering and project work and are able to seamlessly move from one to the other.
• Excellent understanding of human behaviour, including a proven understanding of self.
• Experience working in North America, with knowledge of local employment law and practices.
• Ability to work autonomously, using good judgement and decision making.
• You can turn your hand to most things and if you don’t know the answer you are tenacious in finding out.
• Ability to travel as needed to other offices in North America or EMEA.
• Substantial experience partnering with senior team members and supporting them in developing robust, cohesive teams.
• You are seeking a career defining role and are ready to commit to this long term mission and the chance to create a real difference!