GenAI Strategic Planning Manager, DeepMind

Google LLC; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 236,000; Full time

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Equity

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Benefits

Job summary

Google DeepMind is seeking a GenAI Strategic Planning Manager in Mountain View to lead cross-functional planning and execution of strategic GenAI initiatives. You will design agentic workflows, collaborate with Finance, and drive OpEx planning while partnering with leadership to accelerate AI research and product innovation.

You will manage headcount planning, build data-driven dashboards, and develop scalable processes to support researchers and leadership across the GenAI strategy domain.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from planning to execution and lifecycle management.
• Develop requirements with internal customers and communicate risks to stakeholders.
• Build production-ready tools and dashboards to support researchers and leadership.

Skills

Program management

Stakeholder management

Systems thinking

Data analysis

Forecasting

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

SQL

Python

Go

Java

Job description

GenAI Strategic Planning Manager, DeepMind

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DeepMind Mountain View, CA, USA

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.

Preferred qualifications:

• 4 years of experience in business operations, financial planning and analysis, or program management with a track record managing headcount and budgets.
• Passion for AI productivity and agentic frameworks, with AI-assisted programming skills (readability of SQL, Python, Go, or Java).
• Proven systems-thinking and stakeholder management skills to design low-friction processes and lead cross-functional initiatives collaboratively.
• Exceptional investigative fluency using spreadsheets, forecasting models, and data tools (SQL, etc) to drive insights.

About the job

Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.
Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

As a Strategic Planning Manager within GenAI Strategy and Operations, your mission is to make building AGI fun and frictionless. Leading our transition into the "Agentic Era," you will shift us from manual operations to autonomous, AI-driven workflows.
You will redefine how we manage human capital and OpEx by designing and deploying AI agents that automate core processes and accelerate research. Partnering with leadership and Finance, you will build production-ready agentic tools that provide concierge-level support, empowering DeepMind researchers to focus exclusively on advancing AI.

Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional 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.

About the job

Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.
Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

As a Strategic Planning Manager within GenAI Strategy and Operations, your mission is to make building AGI fun and frictionless. Leading our transition into the "Agentic Era," you will shift us from manual operations to autonomous, AI-driven workflows.
You will redefine how we manage human capital and OpEx by designing and deploying AI agents that automate core processes and accelerate research. Partnering with leadership and Finance, you will build production-ready agentic tools that provide concierge-level support, empowering DeepMind researchers to focus exclusively on advancing AI.

Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional 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. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $163000 - $236000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

• Partner with Finance and GenAI leads to drive disciplined OpEx planning, forecasting, and spend approvals aligned with research priorities.
• Design, deploy, and refine AI-driven agents to automate headcount workflows, capital approvals, and core operations for researchers and leadership.
• Develop and present quarterly business resource dashboards, migrating static reporting into real-time visualization frameworks and automated insights for executives.
• Build production-ready tools that accelerate program execution while providing concierge-like operational support to research talent.
• Manage the end-to-end headcount planning and operational processes maintaining a real-time ledger to actively unblock critical hiring.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire .

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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