Research Strategist, Emerging Impacts Team, DeepMind

About the role

As an Emerging Impacts Manager, you will deliver tangible, grounded, and forward-looking intelligence for teams across DeepMind. Ultimately, you will advance our mission to develop Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) responsibly for the greater good of humanity.

Responsibilities

• Support the responsibility and safety council by frequently presenting project assessments and communicating with executive stakeholders.
• Develop and document best practices for DeepMind projects by working with internal experts and external organizations.
• Design and run engagement models, such as workshops and external expert consultations, to address ethics and safety issues and identify new research areas.
• Collaborate closely with DeepMind safety communities and broader teams to inform model policy, prepare for emerging AI capabilities, and refine assessment frameworks through monitoring real-world impact.
• Lead ethics and safety reviews of projects and engage early with model teams to assess downstream societal implications and navigate governance considerations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in AI ethics and safety within a governance, policy, legal, or research role.
• Experience leading end-to-end assessments of ethical and societal questions related to technology development, balancing risks and benefits across various applications.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree.
• Experience working with AI governance processes within a public or private institution.
• Experience with technical AI models and the broader ecosystem, synthesizing material into accessible formats, collaborating with interdisciplinary teams, and executive stakeholder management.
• Experience focusing on technology/AI ethics and safety, and distilling impact analysis into insights.
• Experience in product management, legal analysis, or other related fields.
• Experience communicating concepts to a range of collaborators, both in writing and executive presentations.

Pay

$295,000 - $329,000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Schedule

Full-time