Business & Corporate Development Manager (12 month FTC)

At Google DeepMind, we value diversity of experience, knowledge, backgrounds and perspectives and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us know.

Snapshot

Google DeepMind is at the forefront of artificial intelligence research and development. Our diverse team pushes AI boundaries for positive impact, collaborating ethically and safely on real-world challenges.

The Business and Corporate Development (B&CD) team is vital to achieving DeepMind's mission. We cultivate strategic opportunities to further research priorities and maximise impact.  This highly collaborative role, with a focus on Corporate Development, leverages a deep understanding of Google DeepMind's strategies to identify opportunities and shape and execute groundbreaking projects.

About Us

Artificial Intelligence could be one of humanity’s most useful inventions. At Google DeepMind, we’re a team of scientists, engineers, machine learning experts and more, working together to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, and collaborate with others on critical challenges, ensuring safety and ethics are the highest priority.

The Role

The Business and Corporate Development team enables Google DeepMind's mission by identifying, shaping, negotiating and managing strategic opportunities to partner externally. We work in direct collaboration with our world-leading AI researchers and GDM’s leadership to develop an understanding of GDM’s research and business strategy and connect these to business and corporate development needs. 

As a Business & Corporate Development Manager, you will work closely together with GDM and Google cross functional teams  to enable and accelerate GDM’s mission through strategic opportunities, including acquisitions, investments, partnerships, and research collaborations. You will partner closely with GDM Research and Product to identify and evaluate these strategic opportunities, lead on the analysis, provide GDM’s leadership with the needed insight to drive strategic decision-making, build the business case and coordinate deal execution with GDM cross functional teams.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop a deep understanding of Google DeepMind’s research, product and business strategy and connect them to B&CD needs
• Serve as lynchpin between internal teams and external partners. Partner with team leads and internal stakeholders to proactively identify and evaluate strategic opportunities, explore options to accelerate impact, assess risks, and initiate or further engagement.
• Lead on inward-looking assessment to identify potential gaps/assets that could be filled/exploited by opportunities external to GDM and working with other GDM and xGoogle teams to identify external opportunities, key partners and emerging trends.
• Carry out in-depth assessments and gathering insights to enable strategic decision making
• Lead/shape deal negotiations and execution 
• Lead cross-functional teams on key transverse strategic initiatives, managing coordination with teams such as Research, Product, Legal, Operations, Finance, Strategy and Operations, Policy & Program Management.
• Track, analyse, and report GDMs corporate development opportunities, establishing internal & external connections and maximising impact 
• Work with colleagues across Google to pursue corporate development opportunities

About You

In order to set you up for success as a B&CD Manager at Google DeepMind we look for the following skills and experience:

• Professional experience in tech transfer, corporate development, investment banking, venture capital, or private equity in a high growth deeptech environment.
• Proven track-record of managing investment opportunities in a Research setting (Academic, Startup or Corporate)
• Excellent relationship-building, communication, and interpersonal skills, confident in engaging researchers and engineers.
• Proven negotiation skills, problem-solving and analytical skills, with excellent business judgement, thought leadership and innovation.
• Strong analytical and reasoning skills to conduct market analysis and summarise insights, structure deals and handle technical, contractual and financial issues.
• The ability to effectively influence and communicate cross-functionally with all levels of management including senior executives.
• Excited by our mission and AI / Machine Learning

In addition, the following would be an advantage: 

• Experience using a CRM (Salesforce)
• PhD in a relevant subject

Application closing date: 19th July 2024