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Snapshot
DeepMind has a remarkable track record of scientific breakthroughs. Such extraordinary work is a direct result of the brilliant and diverse groups of group of people we bring together. Our Operations team work together to maintain, optimise, and nurture our culture to create the best environment in the world for advancing AI research. A place where everyone’s expertise is recognised and where everyone is continually learning and supported to be the best leaders, managers, and collaborators they can be.
About Us
We’re a dedicated scientific community, committed to “solving intelligence” and ensuring our technology is used for widespread public benefit. We’ve built a supportive and inclusive environment where collaboration is encouraged and learning is shared freely. We don’t set limits based on what others think is possible or impossible. We drive ourselves and inspire each other to push boundaries and achieve ambitious goals.
We constantly iterate on our workplace experience with the goal of ensuring it encourages a balanced life. From excellent office facilities through to extensive manager support, we strive to support our people and their needs as effectively as possible.
Our list of benefits is extensive, and we’re happy to discuss this further throughout the interview process!
The Role
To support our mission, we need to design, develop and embed organisational infrastructures and mechanisms that best support the health and evolution of DeepMind.
We are seeking an OD Lead to join our team on a 12 month fixed-term basis. Embedded within the Organisational Development (OD) team in DeepMind’s People and Culture team, the OD Lead is responsible for a team who provide thought partnership and project leadership across a range of P&C related topics.
You will partner closely with teams and leaders across DeepMind to create the optimum environment for performance towards achieving our mission. You will advise and act as a thought-partner on a variety of organisational strategy, organisational structure and P&C topics, collaborating with and taking direction from other members of the team to drive delivery of assigned projects.
Managing a team of 3 Organisational Development Partners, and 3 Talent and Leadership Development Partners you will provide:
- Mentoring and oversight of their projects, ensuring our culture represents the values of the organisation.
- Development of their individual and collective performance.
- Prioritisation of their workload in line with organisational goals.
Key Responsibilities for you and your team:
- Strengthening the People Management capability across our organisation.
- Leading cultural change programmes, such as hybrid working and inclusive team environments.
- Developing our talent philosophy, improving our ability to identify, incentivise, develop and retain our critical talent.
- Leading our annual performance evaluation and promotion cycles.
- Growing our Org Dev consultancy portfolio, partnering with P&C Partners, Managers and Org Leaders on Org Dev solutions at both org or team levels.
- Partnering with senior leaders on strategic growth opportunities through M&A activity, new geographical location set up, or spin off company set ups.
About You
- You are an established HR or OD professional, with extensive experience creating and implementing people related change programmes.
- Organisational development and design experience, you are able to lead teams from diagnostic through to a roadmap for delivery.
- Extensive people management experience, you support the development of pioneering professionals.
- You have proven experience of collaborating as part of a wider project team on a shared topic, using your knowledge to help design, plan and implement solutions.
- You have experience aligning people practices to fulfil business strategy, and where necessary building innovative HR practices and frameworks yourself.
- You have knowledge of HR topics and practices, and ideally you will also have some understanding of organisational psychology.
- As an advisor and coach, you have the courage to challenge decisions that pursue short-term goals at the expense of the overall health of the company.
- You are an excellent communicator, bringing others along with you.
- You have strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- You are open and curious, listening to feedback from others and adjusting your plans based on challenges that arise along the way.
- You are organised, and comfortable working dynamically, balancing many different tasks at varying levels of detail.
- You act with confidence and instil trust in everyone you interact with, delivering well thought through solutions - if you don’t know the answer you are tenacious in finding out.
- Create a culture where your team can operate independently, whilst seeking out opportunities to collaborate. You role model the sharing of information and demonstrate that succeed or fail, we do so as a team.
- You exemplify DeepMind’s values of pioneering responsibly and collaborating with kindness towards the mission.
Competitive salary applies