Portfolio Program Manager, Office of the CEO

Snapshot

Program Managers shape and accelerate the delivery of Google DeepMind’s (GDM) highest priority programs. We pursue scalable and sustainable ways to optimize work, fostering an environment where people can be both collaborative and creative. We build positive relationships with teams, bringing clarity to ambiguity and stability during change. We are curious and thoughtful partners, dedicated to understanding people and driving successful outcomes. By continually deepening our domain expertise, we ensure every initiative contributes directly to our mission

About us

Artificial intelligence will be one humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind (GDM), we are a pioneering AI lab with world-class interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority.

We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.

The Role

This pivotal role within the Office of the CEO (OCEO) focused on architecting and managing the OCEO information ecosystem and portfolio. The role will center around:

• Information Ecosystem Architecture: Design and manage a holistic and highly effective OCEO information ecosystem focused on information flows within the team, up to the CEO and Chief of Staff (CoS), and out to key OCEO partner teams across GDM and Google. This role is critical in breaking down information silos, creating transparency, and supporting robust decision-making.
• Forum Governance and Management: Oversee and support high-priority leadership forums. You will act as a strategic partner to the CoS and CEO by advising on agenda priorities, ensuring the right information reaches the right forums at the right time. This includes upholding reporting standards, overseeing agenda collation, and ensuring meeting outputs are documented and tracked for transparency.
• Continuous Improvement and Optimisation: Continuously review how information flows could be improved, leveraging data to identify opportunities and pain points. You will leverage AI and process improvements to streamline communications, reduce noise, and ensure critical information is surfaced. This includes clarifying roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities, as well as implementing standardised templates and reporting cadences.

The Office of the CEO (OCEO) team works as a tight and lean unit and successful execution requires a high degree of communication, trust, and organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive Delivery: Manage end-to-end program design and delivery
• Influence & Align: Partner with senior stakeholders to foster alignment, adapting approaches accordingly, and proactively sharing critical information and data analysis to influence key decisions and outcomes.
• Translate Strategy: Collaborate with leaders to translate strategic ambitions into clear objectives, managing risks and offering creative solutions.
• Navigate Complexity: Navigate ambiguous environments to drive and track progress towards program outcomes.
• Optimize Operations: Identify opportunities to improve ways of working, tools, or processes, ensuring the right conditions exist for pioneering, mission-focused work.
• Drive Engagement: Foster team engagement by building strong relationships, providing constructive feedback, and challenging established thinking to achieve their full potential.
• Measure Impact: Evaluate program success against goals and share lessons and insights across the wider business.

About You

This role requires an innovative, collaborative problem solver with experience in program management and process optimisation. You must have excellent judgment, strong communication skills, and a passion for continuous learning.

• Systems Thinking: You have the ability to create something from nothing, navigating ambiguity to design and deploy scalable organizational systems and governance models.
• Complex Execution: You are a finisher who thrives in fast-paced environments, capable of taking a broad idea and building a robust execution plan without requiring a pre-defined roadmap.
• Operational Precision: You have an uncompromising attention to detail, ensuring everything is produced to the highest standard of accuracy.
• Discretion and Judgement: You operate with the highest level of integrity and confidentiality, understanding how to manage sensitive information within the CEO's office while maintaining impartiality.
• Collaborative Influence: You are an expert at building high-trust relationships, allowing you to steward standards and drive accountability through influence rather than mandate.
• Analytical Rigour: You are a strategic translator who can cut through noise to provide the precise data and insights needed to influence the organization.
• Leadership Alignment: You have the ability to understand and align with leadership styles, priorities, and decision-making approaches, allowing you to act with minimal friction.
• No task is too big or too small, you can adapt to the changing needs of OCEO and company

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

• Program Management: Experience managing complex programs with the ability to navigate ambiguity and adapt strategies.
• Stakeholder Management: Ability to partner with senior stakeholders, navigate conflicting priorities, and influence outcomes through strong relationships.
• Mindset: Naturally curious, proactive about learning, and passionate about the Google DeepMind mission
• AI Fluency: Ability and curiosity to use AI tools practically and effectively in your work, with a recognition and awareness of AI’s responsible use, risks, and limitations.

Application deadline: 5pm GMT, Friday 20th March 2026 

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