Robot Operations Vendor Manager

• Define and manage vendor performance metrics and outcomes through agreements and processes, collaborating with operations and partnerships colleagues.
• Ensure vendor service quality against SLAs and KPIs via audits and reviews, sharing insights and collaborating with GDM Robotics on effective tools.
• Manage permissions and ACLs for vendor service providers to enable necessary tasks while minimizing risk.
• Partner with Business Operations to enforce extended workforce policies and build trusted relationships with vendor management to ensure delivery against agreements.
• Advance vendor portfolio management strategy—including sizing, cost efficiency, and geographic distribution—aligning with GDM Robotics goals and communicating with leadership.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.

Preferred qualifications:

• 3 years of experience in extended workforce vendor management in a hardware or operations environment.
• Ability to collaborate and communicate with all relevant stakeholders across multiple job families which include operations, hardware, software, and research.
• Ability to analyze, synthesize, and define higher level strategy for vendor allocation and deployment, in close collaboration with cross-functional leadership.

Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.

Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

At DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global issues 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.

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.

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.