Internal Communications, Unit Manager for Science and Frontier-AI Units

Snapshot

As the Internal Communications Manager for the Science and Frontier-AI Units, you’ll need expertise in Science Communications, to be able to translate our exciting science and frontier work into concise, engaging information that resonates with the mission of GDMers. Your role will be to ensure GDMers within Science and Foundational Research Units, and beyond, hear the important updates coming from within these units, GDM strategy whilst also ensuring the profile of this important work beyond these units. You’ll be a thought partner to leads and stakeholders to leads within these units to communicate their vision, roadmap, achievements and initiatives, whilst also ensuring this plan links to the wider GDM story and mission.

About Us

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

The Role

As Internal Communications Manager for Science and Frontier-AI, you’ll need to have strong science communications experience, enabling you to work with scientists at the leading edge of the work of GDM, translating their developments into meaningful messages that resonate within the Units and the wider GDM teams. You’ll also lead on analytics and audience analysis, and help find innovative ways to engage people working within the Units, ensuring that strategic messages from GDM team contribute to building team momentum and engagement. Positioning of key leaders and their exec voices both within the unit and beyond will be essential for success in this role, as well as the ability to help the units navigate through change both internally and externally and support the units and relevant P&C Partners in organisational development.

Key responsibilities:

Scope and Impact

• Drive internal comms work and strategy for Science and Foundational Research Units within a clear structure and with regular guidance from the manager.
• Understand the key areas of focus within Science and Foundational Research Units and be able to fit them to the wider GDM Internal Communications approach
• Effectively communicate about issues related to the broad range of work being delivered by these units as well as updates from P&C, and connecting the dots with broader considerations and any necessary change management within the units
• Shape the narrative and internal delivery of any outputs and deliverables from these units, ensuring GDM wide awareness of launches and their relevance to achieving our mission and highlighting the benefit to society
• Collect and use data led insights to tailor communications, including writing style and channels, including exec voices. Openly seek feedback to improve work and impact on the team.
• Use an AI First approach to all unit activity
• Collaboration with the Internal Comms strategy team on any areas of crisis communications
• Identify gaps in communications (in own area or beyond), provide recommended solutions, and step up to implement them, where appropriate.
• Shape storytelling on success within the units, teasing out key messages, developing
• narratives, and making written and verbal comms more engaging and effective for key audiences
• Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability in the face of challenging or ambiguous comms projects.
• Develop a network of strong and trusted relationships across functions internally, to help
• navigate work more effectively. Influence beyond direct lines of authority to effectively manage relationships with senior leaders or internal clients, and cross-functional partners.
• Partner with leaders and managers at all levels to advise on their approach to Internal Communications
• Help guide the integration of multiple adjacent comms activities.
• Act as a subject matter specialist with comprehensive knowledge on Science and Foundational Research work, being the "go-to" internal comms expert, proactively share knowledge and help others across the team.
• Originate and create exciting and attention grabbing content with little-to-no editing from manager, including responsibility for Town Halls and all other IC needs within the units.
• Deliver high-quality work Consistentl