Google

Technical Program Manager, Sustainability, DeepMind

Google • $217K — $236K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.
  • 5 years of program management experience in an AI-related environment.
  • Proven ability to lead cross-team projects and achieve alignment.
  • Experience with AI systems using geospatial data in sustainability sectors.
  • Track record of managing external technology launches end-to-end.

Responsibilities

  • Drive project workflows by defining technical requirements and timelines.
  • Align diverse teams on shared objectives and key decisions.
  • Identify risks and define metrics to assess project success.
  • Build external partnerships with stakeholders in government and industry.
  • Remain informed about AI and sustainability to inform strategic decisions.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a mission-driven team focused on sustainability.
  • Collaborative environment with teams across multiple global locations.
  • Engagement in pioneering AI research and real-world applications.
  • Potential to influence strategic decisions and projects in environmental sustainability.
Full Job Description
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X Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; London, UK.

Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience in program management in an AI related field, on a technical research or product team.
  • Experience leading projects with cross-team stakeholders and drive alignment across organizational boundaries.
  • Experience with AI systems that leverage geospatial data for applications in weather, energy, biodiversity, agriculture, or related sustainability domains.
  • Experience managing launches of technologies (e.g., open source releases, enterprise products, research demos and research papers, etc.) externally end-to-end.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Experience working with AI modeling research teams, including understanding large-scale model training and evaluation needs.
  • Experience using various methodologies (e.g., agile, waterfall) and tools (e.g., project plans, agile boards, retrospectives) to manage complex project timelines.
  • Skillful at leveraging AI tools/workflows to accelerate team or product operations.


About the job

About DeepMind's Sustainability team: Our program's mission is to revolutionize environmental sustainability with AI. We have an active portfolio of projects where we are applying AI towards challenging problems in grid operations, renewable energy, weather modeling, biodiversity, and agriculture. We work on both real-world applications as well as root-node research problems, aiming to achieve fundamental breakthroughs using AI to benefit science and society. You will work across disciplines and within a highly-global team that welcomes collaborators across our US, UK, India, and European locations.

We are looking for a Technical Program Manager to manage internal research team operations and external launches (of papers, code, products, etc.) for one or more applied AI projects in our Sustainability research program.

In this role, you will be ensuring research outputs are well-organized, aligned with our organizational priorities, time-managed, and ambitious in nature. You will have opportunities to both operate at highly strategic levels helping architect and manage research and launch roadmaps, partnerships, and stakeholder groups as well as technical and operational levels building dashboards to track analytics, standing up launch processes, and developing novel methods for communicating and tracking timelines across teams.

US: $217000 - $236000 (USD) 15% bonus target equity benefits

Responsibilities
  • Drive workflows from start to finish by setting technical requirements, clear timelines, and progress metrics using agile, waterfall, and standard project tools to ensure dependencies and risks are tracked across projects and launches.
  • Align teams across Google on shared goals and critical decisions.
  • Identify potential issues and risks. Support metric definitions to measure success and code/design simple dashboards or tools to track and communicate progress.
  • Cultivate external alliances with government, non-profit, and industry bodies while refining operational tools and AI workflows.
  • Stay current in AI and sustainability domains (e.g., energy grids, renewables, weather, biodiversity, and agriculture) to advise on team strategy and partnerships.


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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