Technical Program Manager AI Delivery for Public Sector and Defense Germany
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 lead end-to-end technical programs for public-sector and defense customers, from deployment through production scaling. You will translate customer requirements into engineering plans, manage schedules, dependencies, risks, and governance, and coordinate delivery across technical and customer stakeholders in regulated environments.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience as a customer-facing Technical or Engineering Program Manager in AI/ML consulting, technology transformation, or enterprise software delivery
- Executive communication and stakeholder management
- Experience with government, defense, or heavily regulated customers
- Experience managing complex technical programs with compliance requirements
- Understanding of cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and air-gapped deployment architectures
- Working knowledge of AI, LLMs, agentic systems, MCP, RAG, fine-tuning, evals, and responsible AI
- Ability to discuss API integrations, model inference, data pipelines, and ML operations
- German citizenship, residence in Germany, and German fluency
- Eligibility for German government security clearance
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end technical program delivery from deployment through production scaling
- Serve as the primary technical program contact for customers
- Translate security, compliance, accessibility, bilingualism, and data-sovereignty requirements into engineering plans
- Navigate procurement processes, RFP responses, and contractual technical obligations
- Communicate technical roadmaps and status updates to senior stakeholders
- Manage schedules, dependencies, risks, and approval cycles
- Align product priorities with customer requirements
- Coordinate security hardening, integrations, model customization, and bilingual support
- Establish governance checkpoints for high-stakes deployments
- Resolve technical challenges in air-gapped, on-premises, and regulated environments
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
- Parental leave top-up for up to 6 months
- Annual enrichment benefits and workspace improvement credit
- Education and learning stipend
- 6 weeks of paid vacation
- Remote-office travel budget and annual company offsite
- Co-working benefit
- $500 home-office stipend