Technical Program Manager, Technical Compliance

Snapshot

The role of the Program Management Team is to shape and accelerate the delivery of GDMs highest priority programs to make fast-paced progress towards our mission. We continually pursue scalable and sustainable ways to optimise our work striving to ensure we cultivate an environment where people can be both highly collaborative and deeply creative making progress at pace. We build positive relationships with teams bringing clarity to ambiguity and providing stability during change. We are active curious and thoughtful about deepening our understanding of people and driving successful outcomes on programs.. We continually deepen our domain knowledge to ensure all our work is advancing towards our mission.

About Us

Artificial Intelligence could be one of humanitys most useful inventions. At Google DeepMind were 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

This role is part of the GDM CORE Programs team supporting the newly formed GDM Technical Compliance team situated within the GDM Privacy & Security organization. The teams mission is to enable GDM to innovate responsibly by establishing and overseeing an effective scalable and robust technical compliance framework. The team provides critical oversight validation and guidance on compliance matters across GDM and its applications to ensure alignment with internal standards and the rapidly evolving global regulatory landscape.

In this role you will lead and coordinate high-priority GDM-wide cross-functional technical compliance programs such as regulatory readiness efforts risk management and assurance responding to regulatory requests for information and establishing effective data governance and policy adherence frameworks. You will be key in ensuring that GDM addresses with the appropriate level of precision and nuance the breadth and depth of the regulatory scrutiny it faces today and in the future.

This role requires an experienced TPgM who can build structure amidst complex and rapidly evolving requirements and needs craft innovative solutions to simplify and scale technical compliance and develop strong partnerships with an array of senior stakeholders across GDM Legal Engineering RCI Regulatory Affairs and other critical functions to anticipate and manage risk while enabling the development of world-class AI. Strong communication skills - translating needs across functions influencing in cross-functional spades and gaining trust as an advocate for compliance matters across a range of stakeholders - are essential to the successful candidate.

Key Responsibilities:

• Program Delivery & Stakeholder Management
• Manage large-scale high-priority cross-functional technical compliance programs including readiness initiatives for critical regulations.
• Oversee the intake scoping and coordination of responses to regulatory requests for information in partnership with senior xGoogle stakeholders.
• Partner effectively with senior stakeholders across GDM Legal Engineering RCI and Regulatory Affairs.
• Develop and leverage a deep technical understanding of GDMs models products and systems to drive effective progress on technical compliance initiatives.
• Translate complex regulatory and policy requirements into actionable guidance for GDM teams.

• Risk Management & Reporting
• Own the tracking reporting and validation in partnership with the GDM Compliance Lead of technical remediation for findings relevant to GDM.
• Drive the development and operationalization of a GDM-specific risk management program ensuring timely and accurate reporting of risks to leadership.
• Create and maintain a comprehensive portfolio view of all technical compliance programs ensuring we have a comprehensive set of controls dynamically tracking their status resource allocations and surfacing risks whenever necessary to ensure timely progress and execution.

• Operational Excellence & Strategy
• Collaborate with cross-functional senior leadership to translate compliance requirements and obligations into actionable roadmaps with clear objectives proactively managing risks and anticipating issues.
• Partner effectively with the GDM Compliance Lead and the engineering team to design scalable infrastructure and unified monitoring tools needed to continually increase the efficiency of our compliance efforts.
• Develop an effective strategy to strengthen knowledge management and institutional memory across compliance and regulation throughout GDM including leveraging GenAI tools where beneficial.

About you

In order to set you up for success as a Technical Program Manager at Google DeepMind we look for the following skills and experience:

• Extensive experience in managing sizable technical compliance programs in a fast-paced and evolving environment with proven skill to navigate through ambiguity and adjust and adapt program strategies as conditions change.
• Experience of operational improvement programs including process policy systems and operating model change.
• Proven ability to manage complex cross-organizational programs and drive meaningful organizational change particularly in response to regulation and standards.
• A background that intersects with both legal/policy and technical domain allowing you to translate between legal requirements and engineering realities.
• Significant experience partnering with and influencing senior stakeholders across legal policy compliance and engineering organizations to navigate conflicting priorities and drive aligned interpretations and outcomes.
• Proven experience managing responses to regulatory requests for information including the coordination scoping and right-sizing of such requests.
• An understanding of the technologies that underpin large-scale AI model development and product deployment.
• Strong communicator with an ability to quickly develop meaningful relationships with key partners and use them to influence action.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $156000 - $229000 bonus equity benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process.

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