Talent Operations Associate (12 Month Fixed Term Contract)

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Snapshot

Our Talent Acquisition team is responsible for attracting, recruiting and onboarding exceptional talent to accelerate Google DeepMind’s mission. Within this team sits our TA Operations team, which is responsible for streamlining our processes, ensuring efficiency, and providing high quality interview coordination and candidate experience at a global scale. 

This role will sit within the TA Operations team, and will partner with Recruiters across the team to support interview coordination across senior and executive roles globally.

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

This role will be based in Mountain View, and will report into our Talent Operations Specialist based in London. This is a twelve month fixed term role.

You will collaborate closely with two other Talent Operations Coordinators and Associates, and work in an agile and flexible way to help ensure we are able to hire at pace across the organization.

Key responsibilities:

• Interview Coordination: Proactively manage high priority, senior and executive interview scheduling.  Efficiently manage a high volume of video and in-person interviews across multiple time zones, skillfully handling reschedules with speed and accuracy. 
• Candidate Experience: Foster exceptional candidate experiences through direct candidate communication, and by driving projects and process improvements focused on candidate experience. 
• Working with Vendors: Provide support, training and management of our two vendor teams (Scheduling Coordination and TA Admin). 
• Process Management: Champion our end-to-end TA workflows and processes, providing guidance and support to Recruiters where needed.
• Continuous Improvement: Proactively anticipates challenges within hiring processes and uses initiative to recommend solutions, and  identify opportunities to enhance processes and candidate experience, contributing to broader Talent Acquisition projects.
• Stakeholder Management: Partner with recruiters, and hiring managers, serving as a trusted point of contact and effectively managing expectations. Collaborate with our Onboarding & Orientation team to ensure a smooth transition for new hires. 
• ATS Management: Demonstrate proactive and exceptional ATS management, alongside competent reporting skills to draw data relevant to efficient hiring processes and positive candidate experience. 
• Documentation & Compliance: Manage all necessary documentation, including contracts and identification checks, ensuring adherence to internal policies and legal requirements.

About You

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

• You possess proven administrative skills, particularly in managing complex scheduling and handling large datasets.
• You're energized by a dynamic workplace, juggling multiple tasks with ease while maintaining high-quality outcomes.
• You thrive in evolving environments and embrace ambiguity: you are  able to collaborate in an agile way, readily adapting to new ways of working in response to business needs. 
• You're a proactive problem solver who communicates effectively, and welcomes opportunities to implement innovative solutions.
• You enjoy being part of a team and are able to build strong relationships with others. You put people at ease and create understanding, including candidates.
• You possess a keen eye for detail, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in all your work.
• You demonstrate a growth mindset and readily seek out opportunities to develop new skills.

Application Deadline: Friday 19th December

The US base salary range for this full-time position is between  $88,000 - $126,000 + bonus + benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process.