Technical Program Management Lead, AI Studio, DeepMind

About the role

The role of the Technical Program Management Team is to organize and enable our research teams to be the best at what they do and to make fast-paced progress towards our mission. We continually pursue scalable and sustainable ways to optimize research, striving to ensure we cultivate an environment where people can be both highly collaborative and deeply creative, making responsible and pioneering research progress at pace. We build strong relationships with teams, bringing clarity to ambiguity and providing stability during change.

Responsibilities

• Build and grow a high-performing team of Technical Program Managers (TPMs), aligning their professional growth and development with 2026 strategic priorities.
• Collaborate closely with researchers and engineers to translate complex, open-ended research questions into structured milestones and execution plans.
• Oversee objective-setting processes and proactively track, manage, and report on critical project dependencies to avoid downstream delays.
• Build strong, trust-based relationships with stakeholders and coordinate communication to ensure alignment across multiple executive leaders.
• Own and lead key program operations, including weekly AI Studio Key Results (KR) reviews, to maintain high accountability and focus.