Government Affairs Lead Middle East
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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will develop and execute government-affairs and stakeholder-engagement strategy across the UAE and Saudi Arabia. You will monitor policy developments, prepare advocacy materials, build government relationships, support commercial opportunities, represent the organization at forums, and ensure legal compliance.
Requirements
- 7+ years of government affairs, public policy, diplomacy, regulatory affairs, public-sector consulting, or industry association experience
- UAE or Saudi Arabian policymaking and regulatory landscape knowledge
- Government stakeholder relationship management
- AI policy
- Digital transformation
- Cloud technology
- Public procurement
- Technology regulation
- English communication
- Policy analysis
- Stakeholder management
- Project execution
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute government-affairs and stakeholder-engagement strategy
- Build relationships with government and public-sector stakeholders
- Monitor legislative, regulatory, and public-policy developments
- Develop consultation responses, policy submissions, briefing materials, and talking points
- Support business-development opportunities with commercial and public-sector sales teams
- Collaborate on responsible-AI and technology-policy messaging
- Represent the organization at associations, partnerships, conferences, and policy forums
- Manage external government-affairs consultants, advisors, and trade associations
- Ensure lobbying and political activities comply with applicable laws and policies
- Support regional government-affairs initiatives across the GCC
Benefits
- Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or local equivalent
- Health and dental benefits
- Mental health budget
- RRSP matching
- 401K
- Pension Scheme
- Parental leave top-up for up to six months
- Arts and culture benefit
- Fitness and wellness benefit
- Workspace improvement credit
- Education and learning stipend
- Six weeks of paid vacation
- Remote-office travel budget
- Annual company offsite
- Co-working benefit
- $500 home office stipend