Tech Strategy Senior Director, Compute, Google DeepMind

DeepMind•Mountain View, CA

About The Position

This is a critical and high impact strategic role that will drive AI strategy, infrastructure investments and AI product portfolio optimization across Google. The role sits within Google DeepMind’s Technology Strategy (TechStrat) function and is a leadership role within Techstrat’s Compute team. Since compute has become the key ingredient for AI model leadership, AI serving success and next generation AI research, this leader will drive high impact decisions that will define the success of Google, with implications on the future of AI for the world. 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 As one of the key senior leaders of the compute Tech Strategy team, this role will own the success of our AI strategy by driving the maximal product impact for Google and AI impact for humanity. This leader will have the responsibility of framing key strategic decisions for our SVP+ leadership group based on deep analysis of the situation including value at stake from AI investments, investment optimization options, Industry understanding, financial modeling, product strategy analysis and understanding. They will be constantly looking for opportunities to push the envelope of impact from our investments in AI and inspire the team to do the same. This leader will also drive the synthesis of the situation into SVP+ consumable frameworks and crisp grounded and data backed options. They will then ensure the strategy is executed flawlessly partnering with a multitude of cross functional teams and stakeholders. About you Are you a PM who thrives as both a central hub orchestrating complex and long running investigations AND a rapid iteration IC who can quickly create something out of nothing and move on to the next thing? This is the job for you. In both cases, you must be able to concisely communicate the merits & risks of multiple scenarios in documents that will get circulated broadly and to some of the most senior folks at the company. If you have high energy, a positive attitude, strong tech judgment, excellent interpersonal skills, and are excited to handle complex pan-Google topics and SVP audiences, this job will offer an opportunity to have a massive company-wide impact.

Requirements

BA/BS degree in Computer Science/ EE or equivalent practical experience in a technical and/or business area
15+ years of product management experience for a technology-driven company, at scale, including a proven track record in driving 0->1 product capabilities and founding or incubating new, high-impact technical initiatives.
Exceptional organizational talent running high velocity, high impact, strategic programs
Stellar verbal and written communication; past experience with SVP/VP+ level audiences
Extensive experience in product operations and business strategy
Strong analytics, strategy, and data fluency experience
Experience in a role that deals with machine learning and/or compute
Innovative problem solver that can turn ambiguous problem spaces into clear solutions
Ability to influence without direct authority, you adeptly work on and with technical and cross-functional or highly matrixed teams in a way that leads to aligned decision making

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with the role of compute and data in building LLMs and the capabilities of these models
Strong product vision and sensibility, ideally with prior and proven experience embedding applied AI capabilities into products and a track record of leveraging AI productivity tools
5+ years of product strategy work experience in managing highly-complex, technically-challenging projects spanning a wide set of stakeholders
A quantitative and analytical mentality to understand Google PA and external user needs
Experience navigating sensitive organizational dynamics
Collaborating within data-driven or quantitative-focused teams
A consistent record of creative problem solving and a bias towards action
Outstanding business judgment
Outstanding organizational, prioritization, and multitasking skills.
Excellent communication skills
A proven track record of building positive relationships with senior stakeholders and influencing strong personalities within a complex business environment
Experience in corporate planning
Ability to manage multiple concurrent complex interactions with geographically disparate teams
Past people management experience; Experience in hiring and leading teams, including distributed teams

Responsibilities

Investigate and drive clarity on some of Google’s hardest long range strategic questions in AI
Create new and partner with existing virtual teams across Google to create comprehensive product and policy plans that stand the test of time
Model scenarios and various tradeoffs to create opinionated strategies for maximizing AI value and optimizing AI investments across Google
Create SVP+ forum content (presentations, communications, mandates)
Help develop a per-mandate monitoring view to keep programs accountable
Collaborate with operational teams and forums in AI to ensure that company-wide SVP+mandates are set up for success -- well organized, staffed and delivering on desired goals.
Stay connected across Google to maintain a living catalog of ongoing experiments & proposed innovations that may become worthy of discussion at NRC
Identify gaps in our processes and information and propose/implement solutions.

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