Senior Product Manager, Frontier Model Protection

DeepMind Technologies Limited; New York (NY); On-site; USD 300,000 - 333,000; Full time

Job summary

Google DeepMind is seeking a Product Manager to lead the Frontier Model Protection program. You will guide cross-functional teams to connect technical breakthroughs with product strategy, balancing safety, security, and commercial goals.

You will own governance, measurement, and collaboration with researchers to translate AI research into robust, production-ready defenses that scale globally.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in product management or a related technical role.
• 5 years of experience taking technical products from conception to launch (e.g., ideation to execution, end-to-end, 0 to 1, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Define the multi-year product goal and strategic roadmap for frontier model protection and anti-distillation defenses across Google DeepMind.
• Establish policies and runtime guardrails to balance rigorous IP defense against developer friction, model utility, and commercial growth objectives.
• Develop quantitative evaluation frameworks and telemetry to measure defense efficacy and continuously validate complex trade‑off decisions.
• Partner with researchers and engineers to translate breakthroughs in watermarking and query analysis into globally scalable, production-grade defenses.
• Secure executive alignment and lead technical engagement with peer labs and AI Safety Institutes to establish shared evaluation benchmarks.

Skills

Product management

End-to-end product development

Stakeholder alignment

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree, MBA, or PhD in CS/ML/Cybersecurity/Business

Job description

Google DeepMind is seeking a Product Manager to lead the Frontier Model Protection program. You will guide cross-functional teams to connect technical breakthroughs with product strategy, balancing safety, security, and commercial goals.

You will own governance, measurement, and collaboration with researchers to translate AI research into robust, production-ready defenses that scale globally.