GenAI Strategic Planning Manager, DeepMind

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.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

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Responsibilities

• 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.

Minimum qualifications:

• 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.