Strategic Partner Program Manager, Gemini API and AI Studio, Deepmind

Google Google · Big Tech · Mountain View, CA +1

This role is a Strategic Partner Program Manager for the Gemini API and AI Studio team at Google DeepMind. The role focuses on driving internal processes, headcount planning, and organizational rhythm to ensure velocity and operational excellence. It involves managing operational systems, representing leadership in forums, tracking key indicators like developer adoption and API performance, and leading operational execution for major industry milestones. The role requires significant experience in strategy, operations, and scaling within a technology company, with a preference for experience in AI/ML platforms.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive internal processes, headcount planning, and organizational rhythm to ensure velocity. Drive initiatives that strengthen the team's culture of "Human-Centric AI," ensuring the organization remains user-obsessed as it scales to manage hundreds of trillions of tokens.
  2. Manage the organization’s operational operating system. Oversee planning cycles, product reviews, leadership forums, resource management, and key feedback loops to ensure organizational alignment and execution excellence.
  3. Represent the Head of AI Studio in high-stakes technical and business forums across DeepMind and Google Cloud. Empowered to make high-judgment decisions to unblock teams and maintain momentum.
  4. Oversee the tracking of critical success indicators, including developer adoption, API performance, and customer satisfaction, providing leadership with the insights needed for rapid decision-making.
  5. Lead the operational execution for major industry milestones, ensuring the product narrative and technical infrastructure are ready for global stage moments.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 11 years of experience in a chief of staff, strategy, or operations role within a technology company
  • Experience scaling operations and building repeatable processes
  • Experience leading cross-functional projects and alignment across product, engineering, and business teams

Nice to have

  • Experience working with AI, machine learning, or developer-focused platforms and ecosystems
  • Experience managing the operational rhythm for major product launches or industry events (e.g., Google I/O)
  • Demonstrated ability to translate high-level strategy into tactical execution plans and operational infrastructure
  • A strong "builder" mentality with the ability to navigate ambiguity, solve undefined problems, and test assumptions
  • Passion for developer communities and making frontier technology accessible and useful to a global audience

What the JD emphasized

  • scaling operations
  • building repeatable processes
  • leading cross-functional projects
  • alignment across product, engineering, and business teams
  • AI, machine learning, or developer-focused platforms and ecosystems
  • managing the operational rhythm for major product launches or industry events
  • translate high-level strategy into tactical execution plans and operational infrastructure
  • builder mentality
  • navigate ambiguity
  • solve undefined problems
  • test assumptions