Strategic Planning Manager, GenAI, DeepMind (Fixed-Term Contract)

Strategic Planning Manager, GenAI, Deep Mind (Fixed-Term Contract)

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XNote: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; London, UK.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of experience in business operations or program management, with experience with headcount and budget management.

Preferred qualifications:

• Excellent cross-functional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

• Exceptional analytical skills; highly proficient with spreadsheets, forecasting models, and data tools (SQL, PLX, Looker).

• Passion for AI productivity tools and agentic frameworks and basic programming skills (e.g., SQL, Python).

About the job

Within the GenAI (Generative AI) Strategy and Operations (Strat Ops) team, you will be at the forefront of the "Agentic Era." This role focuses on re-engineering core operational processes specifically headcount planning and Op Ex management into self-supporting, AI-driven workflows. By developing advanced automation tools, you will optimize resource allocation, eradicate manual inefficiencies, and propel the organization toward its goal objectives.

As a Strategic Planning Manager in GenAI, you will be responsible for the strategic planning, allocation, and optimization of financial (Op Ex) and human capital (headcount) resources across Deep Mind’s GenAI unit.

Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google Deep Mind, 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.

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.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $163000 - $237000 (USD) + 15% bonus target

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Run day-to-day headcount planning, forecasting, and operational processes for the GenAI unit. Maintain a real-time source of truth for headcount grants, asks, and allocations.

• Design and refine headcount agents (using frameworks like Jetski) to automate transaction workflows. Improve location, skills, and organizational strategy through deep analysis and hypothesis-based problem-solving.

• Partner with finance and area leads on disciplined opex planning and forecasting. Evaluate team spend requests against primary research priorities.

• Codevelop auto-responder agents to resolve common opex and headcount questions.

• Present quarterly business resource dashboards and migrate static reporting into automated, agentic pings. Streamline workflows and build reusable workloads in monthly "Strat Ops Fix It" sessions.

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