People and Culture Partner, DeepMind

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 9 years of experience as an HR business partner or generalist supporting leaders at global companies.
• Experience in organizational effectiveness, including workforce planning and organizational design.

Preferred qualifications

• Understanding of the approaches needed to prepare and support individuals, teams, and organizations in making organizational change.
• Understanding of current and future processes needed to pursue continuous improvement in HR and Talent policies and practices.
• Ability to communicate across audiences, situations, and contexts.

About the job

As a People and Culture Partner for our research teams, you will partner directly with senior leaders to design and implement pragmatic, effective people strategies that drive organisational performance, innovation, and employee engagement.

In this role, you will require a unique balance of strategic foresight and execution as you will be the single point of contact for your Leads, must possess strong stakeholder management skills, a high degree of adaptability, and the capability to operate independently while simultaneously holding a deep understanding of the unit to shape the broader talent and organisational strategy.

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.

Responsibilities

• Prepare leaders and teams to embrace organizational change, shaping and executing comprehensive people plans.
• Manage communication of people strategies and implement organizational changes to achieve desired business goals.
• Translate company-wide Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) into plans tailored to the specific needs of the client organization, providing feedback to identify potential gaps.
• Identify talent gaps, organizational shortcomings, and people needs that could hinder business strategy execution, use this analysis to guide resourcing and development initiatives.
• Support the selection and development of talent, and actively drive organizational health improvements through trend monitoring analysis.

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