Events Manager- GenAI 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

About Deepmind

Artificial Intelligence could be one of humanity’s most useful inventions. At Google DeepMind, we’re a team of scientists, engineers, product and 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.

Job Summary

We’re looking for a talented Events Manager to join our Events and Experiences team supporting the GenAI Unit, at an exciting time in our history. This is a rare opportunity to plan and deliver internal events that help drive connection, collaboration and knowledge sharing across multiple locations, time zones and disciplines. Our internal events play a key role in helping to shape and amplify Google DeepMind’s culture, enabling collaboration and celebrating key moments for the organisation at an important stage of our journey.

The Role

This is a 12 month fixed term contract role in the Google DeepMind Events and Experiences team reporting to the Global Event Programs Lead. You will be embedded in the GenAI Unit and will focus on events and experiences for this groundbreaking team whose mission is to accelerate intelligent experiences across Google’s platforms and products. You will partner with teams across Google DeepMind and Google to deliver a variety of events across the globe including Town Halls, Summits, hackathons, offsites and celebrations to drive collaboration, knowledge sharing and connection at scale. There may also be some external facing and/or wider Google events where you will support GenAI’s presence.

Key Responsibilities

• Event Management & Logistics: Partner closely with the GenAI Senior Events Manager to develop program plans and event proposals aligned with the unit’s mission and priorities.
• Respond quickly to briefs from stakeholders to create event experiences in support of specific objectives, often within a short lead time.
• Plan and deliver some assigned events end to end and on larger more complex events be responsible for the planning and execution of specific workstreams or tasks.
• Oversee onsite execution of events involving some domestic and international travel.

Project & Budget Management

• Create detailed project plans and timelines, tracking milestones, deliverables and flagging and mitigating risks.
• Build budgets for assigned events, tracking spend and processing contracts and purchase orders.

Partnership

• Consult and partner with teams within the GenAI unit and across Google DeepMind (Events & Experiences, Enterprise Engineering, Workplace, Comms, Marketing etc) coordinating cross functional working groups to deliver seamless experiences that meet the agreed objectives.
• Brief and collaborate with external agencies and internal Google vendor partners on venue, technical production and logistics requirements.

Data Management

• Track and analyze agreed event metrics.