Business and Corporate Development Manager, Partnerships, DeepMind
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MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience negotiating research and product partnerships in a research and development (R&D) setting within academic, corporate, or creative technology environments.
- Experience supporting or commercializing AI technologies for creative product pipelines.
- Experience working with datasets or machine learning.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- PhD degree in science, medicine, engineering or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience managing complex, end-to-end partnerships.
- Experience working autonomously in a dynamic, ever-changing, and collaborative environment.
- Deep understanding of machine learning applied to Science and Engineering.
- Strong investigative and reasoning skills to structure agreements and manage technical, contractual and financial issues.
- Strong cross-functional communication and relationship-building skills across all management levels, including executives. Confident in collaborating with both researchers and engineers.
ABOUT THE JOB:
As a Business and Corporate Development manager, you will be a part of the team that enables DeepMind's mission by identifying, supporting, shaping, negotiating and managing strategic opportunities to partner externally. You will work in direct collaboration with our world-leading AI researchers, engineers and GDM’s leadership to develop an understanding of GDM’s research and business strategy and connect these to business needs.
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In this role, you will be driving research, product and data partnerships, acting as the primary thought partner for both internal teams and external organizations, shaping research and product partnerships or licensing opportunities from initial concept through negotiation to final execution. You will be collaborating with researchers, engineers, technical program managers, product managers and DeepMind Foundation teams towards shaping partnerships that accelerate DeepMind's research.
Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, 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.
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RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Build a deep understanding of DeepMind’s research, product and business strategy across key areas, connecting them to business needs.
- Lead the end-to-end agreement process with strategic partners, including structuring and negotiating complex, first-of-their-kind agreements for joint research, technology/data licensing, and other strategic collaborations with partners across industry, government and academia coordinating with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Partner with GDM teams to proactively spot new opportunities, monitor emerging trends and inform our strategic partnerships agenda.
- Serve as the single point of contact and relationship owner for key external partners, driving long-term partner success and maximizing the impact of each collaboration.
- Collaborate with colleagues across Google to pursue impactful partnership opportunities.
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