Cohere

Cohere

Technical Program Manager, Product Engineering

United States · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 69 days ago
Machine LearningLLMsRoadmappingCadenceLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company.
  • Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft.
  • You'll report into our Product Engineering function.

Responsibilities

  • We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems.
  • We're training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems.
  • We obsess over what we build.
  • You'll build the structure, rhythms, and visibility mechanisms that let multiple product teams and their cross-functional partners execute with clarity.
  • Own cross-team program coordination, tracking progress, dependencies, and risks across all workstreams and their functional components (Product, Design, Engineering, Finance, Revenue) simultaneously
  • Drive the executive operating cadence, synthesising status into clear signal and surfacing risks before they become blockers
  • Coordinate shared resources (particularly MLE and PD capacity) across teams, identifying scheduling conflicts and driving prioritisation decisions with the relevant leads
  • Support each team lead in standing up their weekly team cadence and holding the standard for how progress is communicated upward
  • Operate across function and build credibility and influence with stakeholders who don't report into your org.
  • We strive to create an inclusive work environment for all; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities.

Compensation

  • Annual enrichment

Benefits

  • 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days!)
  • A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in your local currency for lunch.
  • Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health.
  • RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme.
  • 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent.
  • Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and a workspace improvement credit.
  • Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching.
  • For those not near an office: a co-working benefit so you can work alongside others in your city.
  • Everyone receives a $500 home office stipend to set up your workspace properly.

Company info

  • 4+ years as an Engineering or Technical Program Manager, with at least some of that time spent at a startup or high-growth company where you built programs rather than inherited them
  • Demonstrated experience running multiple simultaneous workstreams. You can hold a complex picture in your head, spot cascading risks early, and keep several parallel programs moving without losing the thread
  • We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that.
  • Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers.
  • We are a global technology company co-headquartered in Toronto and San Francisco, with key offices in London, New York City, Montreal, Seoul, Germany and Paris.
  • Our platform is expanding beyond a single product into a portfolio of new AI-powered product experiences.
  • This is an early-stage, high-visibility program with multiple workstreams in flight.We're looking for an EPM to be the operating backbone of this program.

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