Technical Program Manager AI Delivery
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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About the Role
You will manage customer-facing engineering programs for enterprise AI solutions. You will communicate with technical teams, leadership, customers, and external partners; create schedules; manage dependencies and risks; drive alignment; resolve delivery issues; and track progress across cross-functional workstreams.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience as an Engineering or Technical Program Manager
- At least 3 years of customer-facing technical delivery and operations experience for enterprise-grade AI software or solutions
- Experience working with cross-functional teams to ship technical products, services, or solutions
- Ability to independently track and report across multiple workstreams
- Experience with LLM training or optimization is a differentiator
Responsibilities
- Provide clear and timely communication across technical teams, leadership, customers, and external partners
- Break down complex issues into strategies and drive engineering alignment
- Create and manage program and project schedules
- Identify dependencies and manage risks
- Ensure on-time delivery and establish status-update checkpoints
- Proactively identify and resolve issues
- Coordinate cross-functional dependencies and prioritize impacts to schedule and product quality
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 six months
- Arts, culture, fitness, wellness, quality-time, and workspace-improvement benefits
- Education and learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching
- Six weeks of paid vacation
- Travel budget for other offices and an annual company offsite for remote employees
- Daily lunch, snacks, and community events for office-based employees
- Co-working benefit for employees not near an office
- $500 home office stipend