At Cohere, our mission is to scale intelligence to serve humanity. We are training and deploying frontier models for developers and enterprises building AI systems, including content generation, semantic search, and agents. Our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI, and we take pride in what we build. Each team member plays a crucial role in enhancing our models and delivering value to our customers.
We are seeking an Engineering Program Manager to join our team. This role requires someone with curiosity, drive, independence, and leadership skills, along with hands-on experience in managing projects for consumer software and machine learning solutions. You will play a vital role in shaping Cohere’s operations, collaborating with leading experts in the LLM space, and contributing to our fast-growing product and culture.
Key Responsibilities:
- Communicate: Provide clear, timely communication across the tech organization, Cohere teams, leadership, and external partners.
- Optimize: Break down complex issues into strategies, aligning engineering with product, business, and marketing while fostering collaboration.
- Plan: Create and manage project schedules, identify dependencies, manage risks, and drive organizational alignment.
- Execute: Ensure on-time delivery, identify development needs, and establish checkpoints for status updates.
- Problem Solve: Proactively identify and resolve issues, coordinate cross-functional dependencies, and prioritize impacts to schedule and product quality.
Requirements:
- At least 5 years of experience as an Engineering or Technical Program Manager, with a minimum of 1 year in LLM training or optimization for a consumer product.
- Fluency in English and Arabic.
- Detail-oriented and extremely self-organized.
- Strong ability to enable teams and capture detailed notes during technical meetings.
- Execution-focused with a strong bias for action.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams to deliver technical products to internal or external customers.
- Comfortable holding leaders accountable while remaining diplomatic.
Work Conditions:
- Full-time remote work capability.
- An open and inclusive culture.
- A growing team at the cutting edge of AI research.
- Work-life balance with six weeks of vacation.
- Health and dental benefits, including mental health support.
- Weekly lunch stipend and in-office lunches/snacks.
- Parental leave top-up for employees based in Canada, the US, and the UK.
- Personal enrichment benefits for arts, culture, fitness, and workspace improvement.
At Cohere, we value diversity and strive to create an inclusive work environment for all. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and commit to providing equal opportunities. If you require accommodations during the recruitment process, please inform us, and we will work together to meet your needs.
