Senior Technical Program Manager, Model Behavior, DeepMind

Responsibilities

• Lead mid and post-training programs to align Gemini's style, tone, and behavior with the model specifications and taxonomy, scaling processes for consistent evaluations.
• Dive deep into technical details, including losses and behavior evaluations, ensuring they accurately measure targeted problems.
• Drive efficiency by streamlining execution, improving tooling, and connecting horizontally with other core modeling teams.
• Integrate model behavior into launch processes to ensure consistent and accurate Gemini performance.
• Build consensus and influence outcomes across various teams and stakeholders without relying on direct authority while managing high-visibility executive reviews, providing clear program visibility and ensuring smooth execution.
• - Lead mid and post-training programs to align Gemini's style, tone, and behavior with the model specifications and taxonomy, scaling processes for consistent evaluations. - Dive deep into technical details, including losses and behavior evaluations, ensuring they accurately measure targeted problems. - Drive efficiency by streamlining execution, improving tooling, and connecting horizontally with other core modeling teams. - Integrate model behavior into launch processes to ensure consistent and accurate Gemini performance. - Build consensus and influence outcomes across various teams and stakeholders without relying on direct authority while managing high-visibility executive reviews, providing clear program visibility and ensuring smooth execution.

Minimum qualifications:

Preferred qualifications:

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience. - 10 years of experience in program management on technical cross-functional projects. - 7 years of experience in leadership roles with/without direct reports. Preferred qualifications: - 8 years of experience leading large-scale complex programs, including across multiple geographies and time zones. - Good understanding of large language models, with knowledge of multi-turn conversations or model behaviour and other alignment related topics in machine learning. - Demonstrated success in fast-moving program execution and deliveries. - Possess excellent communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts clearly to various audiences, including executive leadership. - Passionate about behavior, have a curious mindset to understand and explore how our users engage with Gemini models.