Chief of Staff
Toronto-founded enterprise AI company building foundation models, agentic AI, enterprise search, and private deployment products.
About Cohere
Cohere provides enterprise-focused AI models and end-to-end products, including North for agentic workplace AI, Compass for enterprise search, and models for generation and retrieval. It supports private, VPC, and on-premises deployment options.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will support the Chief AI Officer by leading the organization’s operating rhythm, including planning, goal-setting, business reviews, budgets, headcount, and communications. You will resolve cross-functional dependencies, guide priorities and decisions, and lead special projects such as reorganizations, partnerships, events, and planning weeks.
Requirements
- 12+ years of operating experience in an AI/ML organization
- Experience in a Chief of Staff, business operations, or senior program-operations role
- Knowledge of AI model development, data requirements, research, engineering, and delivery
- Understanding of model performance metrics, data-pipeline throughput, and budget-to-impact
- Strategic planning and execution skills
- Clear writing, communication, influence, and executive presence
Responsibilities
- Lead annual and quarterly planning, goal-setting, and business reviews
- Drive budget and headcount planning as priorities change
- Resolve cross-functional program dependencies and decision ownership
- Coordinate planning with product, engineering, security, and finance
- Lead special projects end to end
- Manage meetings, priorities, plans, and resulting decisions
Benefits
- Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or local equivalent
- Health and dental benefits, including a mental-health budget
- RRSP matching, 401K, and Pension Scheme
- 100% parental-leave top-up for up to 6 months
- Arts and culture, fitness/wellness, quality-time, and workspace-improvement benefits
- Education and learning stipend
- 6 weeks of paid vacation
- Travel budget for other offices and annual company offsite
- Co-working benefit
- $500 home-office stipend
- Daily lunch, snacks, and community events for office-based employees