Google DeepMind · 13 hours ago
Business Finance Program Manager, Robotics
Mountain View, California, US
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$158K/yr - $235K/yrGoogle DeepMind is a leader in artificial intelligence, and they are seeking a Business Finance Program Manager to work closely with the Robotics team. This role involves managing financial health, creating annual plans, and ensuring compliance with financial controls while collaborating with researchers and engineers.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentFoundational AIMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Own the Annual Plan: Lead the creation of the bottom-up Annual Plan for the Robotics team, working directly with technical leads to resource projects accurately, and prioritize spend to fit within targets
Dynamic Re-forecasting: Manage monthly and quarterly rolling forecasts. Because this is R&D and Hardware, you will need to adjust forecasts rapidly as timelines shift and prototypes evolve
Scenario Modeling: Build financial models to support decision-making (e.g., "Build vs. Buy" decisions, R&D allocation, and resource capacity planning)
Budget vs. Actuals (BvA): Track spend granularly at the project and team level. Provide team leads with clear visibility on their remaining budget
Hardware/Capex Tracking: Specifically track hardware costs, prototype builds, and inventory. Distinguish clearly between Opex (Research) and Capex (Development/Assets) for accurate accounting
Performance Reporting: create monthly reports that tell the "story behind the numbers" for the Robotics leadership team
Risk & Compliance: Act as the main POC with the central finance team ensuring all financial activities comply with the control frameworks
Audit Readiness: Maintain rigorous documentation and approval trails (e.g. PO management, invoice reconciliation) to satisfy internal and external audit requirements
Tooling: Collaborate with finance and other relevant counterparts to identify, evolve, and deploy appropriate tooling to achieve the goals above
Qualification
Required
Significant experience as a finance manager in fast paced tech, manufacturing or hardware industries, having successfully managed multi-million $ budgets
Demonstrable, expert-level program and project management skills, with the ability to manage several complex projects concurrently and a flexible approach when working under pressure
A deep and demonstrable interest in AI, technology, and its societal and cultural impact
Excellent financial acumen with proven experience managing and reporting on complex budgets
Exceptional communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to lead and motivate multi-disciplinary teams and build excellent collaborations with a wide range of stakeholders
A proactive and solution-focused approach to problem-solving
Foster an AI-first culture by championing the strategic use of AI to enhance team and program productivity, demonstrating a collaborative mindset in leveraging technology to achieve shared goals
Preferred
Experience working in robotics
A degree or equivalent experience in finance or engineering
Experience working within a partnership-led delivery model
Benefits
Bonus
Equity
Benefits
Company
Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind aims to research and build safe artificial intelligence system to solve intelligence and advance science and humanity. It is a sub-organization of Google.
Founded in 2010
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2014-01-26Acquired
2011-02-01Series A
Leadership Team
Demis Hassabis
Co-Founder & CEO
Aaron Saunders
VP of Hardware Engineering, Robotics
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