Senior Operational Program Manager, AI Safety and Behavior, DeepMind

As a GenAI Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Google Cloud, you are an embedded builder who bridges the gap between frontier AI products and production-grade reality within customers. Unlike traditional advisory roles, you function as an "innovator-builder," moving beyond high-level architecture to code, debug, and jointly ship bespoke agentic solutions directly within the customer’s environment. This role is designed for high-agency engineers with a founder’s mindset. You will address blockers to production including solving the integration complexities, data readiness issues, and state-management challenges that prevent AI from reaching enterprise-grade maturity. By embedding with strategic accounts, you serve a dual purpose: providing "white glove" deployment of complex AI systems and acting as a critical feedback loop, transforming real-world field insights into Google Cloud’s future product road map. In this role, you will embed with the engineering organizations of our largest customers and take Google's developer AI - Gemini Code Assist, anti-gravity IDE, SDK, CLI and the agentic surfaces beneath them - from the first conversation to a production-grade workflow. You find what actually slows an engineering organization down, design the system that fixes it, and own it end-to-end: discovery, build, roll-out, hardening, and the long tail of making it reliable.

It's an exciting time to join Google Cloud’s Go-To-Market team, leading the AI revolution for businesses worldwide. You’ll excel by leveraging Google's brand credibility—a legacy built on inventing foundational technologies and proven at scale. We’ll provide you with the world's most advanced AI portfolio, including frontier Gemini models, and the complete Vertex AI platform, helping you to solve business problems. We’re a collaborative culture providing direct access to DeepMind's engineering and research minds, empowering you to solve customer challenges. Join us to be the catalyst for our mission, drive customer success, and define the new cloud era—the market is yours.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the annual and half-yearly business, including distilling key organization priorities and driving the goal processes.

• Develop, forecast, and manage headcount, budgets, and operational utilization while strategically allocating resources to projects based on timelines and priorities.

• Analyze resource and operational data to identify trends, perform ad hoc analyses, and implement strategies that reduce waste, friction, and bureaucracy.

• Lead high-priority, direct technical projects for the VP of Safety and Alignment and coordinate high-visibility executive reviews.

Qualifications Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 8 years of experience in program or project management.

• 8 years of experience leading programs across multiple geographies and time zones.

Preferred qualifications:

• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.

• Experience in business operations, which includes owning key business processes.

• Understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) safety.

• Ability to demonstrate success in fast-paced program execution and deliveries.

• Excellent communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts clearly to audiences, including executive leadership.