Strategy and Special Projects, Office of the CEO - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Snapshot

This strategic role within the tight, lean Office of the CEO (OCEO) drives complex, cross-functional early stage strategic programs within the CEO's portfolio, with a direct impact on Google DeepMind’s mission. The position requires significant influence, credibility, and agility to partner with senior leaders across Google DeepMind, Google, and Alphabet to strategically plan, prioritize, and execute critical initiatives.

About us

Artificial intelligence will be one humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind (GDM), we are a pioneering AI lab with world-class 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.

The role

This role will partner with leaders and teams across GDM on a range of projects within the CEO’s portfolio, specifically focusing on developing early-stage ideas into full-fledged strategies and aligning them with the CEO's vision. You will partner closely with executive leads, research and development teams, program managers, and teams across multiple functions to strategically plan, prioritise, and execute critical initiatives.

This role will require influence and credibility, driving strategic programs in partnership with the organisation that are large and complex, span multiple functions, and have a direct impact on Google DeepMind’s mission. Agility and nimbleness is critical; this role will evolve alongside the CEO’s role as we progress towards our mission. 

The Office of the CEO (OCEO) team works as a tight and lean unit and successful execution requires a high degree of communication, trust, and organisation.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with leaders, program managers and other teams to deliver critical programs and maximise the success of the CEO’s engagement with key initiatives across the business.


• Develop early-stage ideas into full-fledged strategies, aligning them with the CEO's vision.


• Create strong partnerships with key stakeholders across Google DeepMind; instilling high levels of trust across the organisation and providing recommendations on important decisions. You will share insights and analytical depth, as well as the 'bigger picture', integrating internal and external factors and cross-functional knowledge. 


• Prepare, present and gain agreement among senior executives on business cases, and then lead and influence teams to execute


• Leverage specialist internal expertise to make recommendations, with influence and credibility, on pivotal decisions


• Build trusted relationships across Google and Alphabet, to enable the progress of critical programs and help facilitate implementation

About you

In order to set you up for success in this role at Google DeepMind, we look for skills and experience that may include a background in high-caliber strategy consulting, entrepreneurship or venture capital, such as the following:

• You have a track record of managing and leading fast-moving and ambitious ventures, ideally involving Artificial Intelligence, from start to finish


• You have worked closely and consistently with senior executives, ideally in direct partnership (for instance, as a Chief of Staff, Operating Partner or strategic advisor)


• Extensive experience collaborating and influencing senior leaders and executive to define, develop and prioritise programs, forming high trust relationships across an organisation


• Skilled at written and verbal communications, including emails, memos and presentations, across audiences of all sizes and backgrounds


• A strong problem solver, you possess exceptional analytical skills, with a proven ability to bring structure to ambiguity and a bias to action


• Experience in contributing to functionally, geographically and culturally diverse teams


• Possessing high degrees of resilience, you seek out feedback and strive for continuous improvement. With confidence, you ask questions, make suggestions, and kindly challenge when needed


• Awareness and a firm comprehension of the Google DeepMind organisation, understanding how to get things done and an ability to proactively connect dots to further enable progress


• No task is too big or too small, you can adapt to the changing needs of OCEO and company


• Trustworthy, discreet and impartial, with a high level of integrity and excellent sense of judgement


• You role model a positive team environment and culture that promotes learning and high performance


• Excited about AI technologies and making a long-term contribution to Google DeepMind


• Proven ability to take nascent, complex ideas and transform them into clear, operational strategies and business cases.

Application deadline: 5pm GMT, Friday 20th March 2026 

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