Technical Program Manager (Agents Innovation, AI)

TL;DR

Technical Program Manager (Agents Innovation): Creating a powerful innovation flywheel that accelerates next-generation AI agents development, delivering model improvements to Gemini and enabling agentic deployment across Google products with an accent on de-risking research bets and technical execution. Focus on orchestrating innovation lifecycle from research to production, leading complex engineering workstreams, driving eval benchmarks, and cross-functional integration.

London, UK

Company

Team of scientists, engineers, machine learning experts advancing the state of the art in artificial intelligence for public benefit and scientific discovery, prioritizing safety and ethics.

What you will do

• Orchestrate the innovation flywheel: manage lifecycle of agentic innovations from early research bets to incubation and upstreaming into Gemini recipe.
• Lead complex engineering workstreams focused on core agentic capabilities.
• Drive development and adoption of eval benchmarks like SWE-bench and GDPVal to validate model improvements.
• Build pathways between DeepMind technical experts and partner product teams for multi-way wins across Google surfaces.

Requirements

• 8+ years leading complex, organizational-level technical programs in software development or R&D.
• Deep understanding of AI model development lifecycle, including pre-training, post-training, infrastructure, especially agentic development.
• Ability to manage engineering backlogs, navigate technical ambiguity, drive high-priority research execution.
• Exceptional stakeholder management to build consensus in matrixed enterprise.
• Thrive in fast-paced, high-velocity environment, quick to pivot.
• Strong communicator, data-driven, precise.

Culture & Benefits

• Value diversity of experience, knowledge, backgrounds, perspectives for extraordinary impact.
• Committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of protected characteristics.
• Accommodations available for disabilities or additional needs.