Contracts Associate, Google DeepMind
12 month contract
AI systems to solve problems and advance scientific discovery
Job no longer available
AI systems to solve problems and advance scientific discovery
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build AI responsibly to benefit humanity.
Role
Who you are
- Excellent contract management skills with ideally 3+ years experience in contract operations, business affairs or in roles with significant work with legal contracts
- Proven track record of senior level communication, multiple cross-functional stakeholders. You’re flexible and highly responsive to the needs of the project, team and wider group
- Experience establishing effective relationships, influence, driving consensus and collaborating internally and externally at all organisational levels demonstrating an effective collaborative working style
- Highly collaborative and organised, with the ability to handle multiple priorities
- You enjoy variety and have a hands-on mentality, you see what needs to be done and make it happen - no task is too big or too small
What the job involves
- 12-month contract in our Community & Partnerships Group, DeepMind in London/remote EMEA
- We are looking for an individual to support our contract operations efforts across the Community & Partnerships group (CAPS). This is a wide-ranging opportunity to work with a dynamic and fast-paced team within an exciting environment
- Onboard and work closely with a range of suppliers, ensuring they are registered on our systems, and have an excellent experience of working with us
- Partner directly with the CAPS team on the contract lifecycle drafting contracts and partnering with cross-functional teams (legal, finance, compliance, strategic partnerships) throughout the process
- Process sponsorship requests, issuing sponsorship letters and supporting documentation for gifts and donations
- Partner with legal to develop/improve legal templates and processes to reduce contracting turnaround time
- Liaise with each supplier, and the internal payments team, to ensure accurate submission of invoices
- Execute the process for payment requests, securing approval, ensuring timely payments and confirming receipt
- Create new processes & documentation to improve the process
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Google DeepMind combines the talents of two leading AI labs, Google Brain and DeepMind. Over the past decade, they have made major breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, which have helped shape the AI industry today.
DeepMind first gained attention with its deep reinforcement learning techniques, especially with the program DQN, which learned to play 49 Atari games just by watching the screen. Its landmark achievement came with AlphaGo, the first AI to beat a world champion in the complex game of Go. Following this success, it tackled even tougher challenges, such as creating AlphaStar, which defeated professional players in StarCraft II, and AlphaFold, which predicts protein structures to advance medical research.
Now operating as Google DeepMind, the organisation uses its computing resources to solve important scientific and engineering problems. Focused on developing AI responsibly, ensuring that its groundbreaking products benefit everyone, With ongoing innovations in areas like generative models and robotics, Google DeepMind is set to lead the next wave of AI advancements while addressing the ethical challenges that come with these technologies.
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Insights
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jan 2012
$5m
ANGEL
Total funding: $5m
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Demis Hassabis
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Computer Science at Cambridge University before doing a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL. They began their career as a Lead Programmer at Bullfrog Productions and then Lionhead Studios before founding Elixir Studios, where they spent 7 years as the CEO.
Shane Legg
(Co-Founder & Chief Scientist)Completed a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics after working as a Software Engineer.
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