Event Programs Lead, Events & Experiences

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Snapshot

We're seeking a trailblazing senior events professional to harness their strategic and creative skills and expertise to lead the events and experiences program team for one of the most innovative organisations today!

This is a great opportunity to design and deliver a program of both external events that help build trust and advocacy in our work with external audiences and internal events that enable connection, collaboration and knowledge sharing across Google DeepMind.

About Us

We're a dedicated scientific community, committed to “solving intelligence” and ensuring our technology is used for widespread public benefit. We've built a supportive and inclusive environment where collaboration is encouraged and learning is shared freely. We don't set limits based on what others think is possible or impossible. We drive ourselves and inspire each other to push boundaries and achieve ambitious goals.

We constantly iterate on our workplace experience with the goal of ensuring it encourages a balanced life. From excellent office facilities through to extensive manager support, we strive to support our people and their needs as effectively as possible.

Our list of benefits is extensive, and we're happy to discuss this further throughout the interview process!

The Role

We are looking for an experienced senior events professional to help lead and evolve our Events & Experiences programs team at an important stage of GDM's journey and the wider AI sector. Our internal events program plays a key role in enabling our work and mission and building our culture for 2500 Google DeepMinders located across multiple locations, time zones and disciplines. The program may include GDM-wide conferences, town halls and hackathons alongside team offsites, social events, celebrations and DEI events.

Our external-facing program of events are where we engage with the wider AI community of academia, research and science, as well as industry, government, press and the general public to showcase and build trust and advocacy for our work and mission.. The program may include conferences, education outreach events, exhibitions, dinners, networking events and public policy summits. We are entering uncharted territory in AI development and this is an exciting opportunity to create unique experiences that demonstrate the benefits of AI to society.

Event formats are a mix of in person, hybrid and virtual events and may take place in our Google DeepMind offices or offsite at suitable external venues.

The Events & Experiences Programs Lead will report into and partner with the Global Head of Events and Experiences and lead a team of 5 event managers/producers. They will collaborate closely with the Events & Experiences Operations Lead and with teams across Google DeepMind (and Google) including Marcomms, Research, Workplace and Education.

Key responsibilities:

Develop, design and deliver Google DeepMind's global events programs

Cultivate trusted relationships with senior internal stakeholders and external partners and provide expert partnership and thought leadership to teams across Google DeepMind

Develop creative and innovative event design proposals

Employ best practice in event project management to ensure flawless delivery

Identify opportunities to increase impact and engagement and establish success metrics

Maintain curiosity in the AI community, industry and events landscape using insights to inform our event engagement strategy

People management and development of 5 event managers/producers

Agency/Vendor sourcing and management

Budget management

On site event management including international travel as needed

Ensure events are compliant with all health and safety, regulatory, security and other governance

About You

You'll be motivated and excited by the opportunity to work for a mission driven organisation where events play an integral role.

To set you up for success we are looking for the following skills and experience:

Extensive senior level events experience including in house role (s)

Technology events background with good understanding and interest in the AI landscape

Demonstrable experience of developing events strategy and designing and leading events programs with events of varying scope, scale and audiences

Exceptional project management skills

Creative approach with track record of developing innovative complex events from concept to execution

An experienced leader of high performing teams with recent people management and team development experience

Ability to build and nurture influential relationships with senior stakeholders and partners

Confident presenter and communicator

Curiosity regarding latest event industry trends and the wider AI landscape

Agency/Vendor hiring and management experience with a network of contacts

Budget management skills

Comfortable navigating and leading through change and ambiguity in a fast paced environment

Collaborative and inclusive approach

Knowledge of health and safety, security, protocols and regulatory requirements

Flexibility to travel as needed

Competitive salary applies

Closing date: 19th April 2024