Cohere
AI
TechnicalProgramManager,ProductEngineering
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“Technical Program Manager, Product Engineering at Cohere. Skills: Technical Program Management, AI/ML product development, Release Management, Cross-functional Collaboration, Process Building. Own end-to-end release coordination. Manage release trains, defining cadences, and ensuring smooth execution”
What You'll Achieve.
Scale intelligence to serve humanity; Increase the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers; Build the structure, rhythms, and visibility mechanisms that let multiple product teams and their cross-functional partners execute with clarity; Establish and scale release processes that allow North's teams to ship faster and with greater confidence as our platform grows; Improve release quality, velocity, and operational rigor
Industry & Context.
Spot cascading risks early; Surfacing blockers early and coordinating resolution; Respond quickly to program-level changes: clarifying scope, adjusting timelines, and marshalling the right resources when customer or market priorities shift
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
4+ years as an Engineering or Technical Program Manager, Fluency with AI/ML product development, A builder's instinct: comfortable in ambiguous, low-structure environments where you're creating the process, not following it, and pragmatic enough to ship something imperfect rather than wait for perfect, Cross-functional influence without authority: you've worked in roles where you had to align Finance, GTM, and engineering leads who all had different priorities, and you know how to move people without a mandate, Experience working with or alongside technical leads: you can have a credible conversation about technical dependencies and constraints without needing things translated
Nice to Have
At least some of that time spent at a startup or high-growth company where you built programs rather than inherited them, Demonstrated experience running multiple simultaneous workstreams. You can hold a complex picture in your head, spot cascading risks early, and keep several parallel programs moving without losing the thread, executive communication: you know how to distil messy, multi-team status into crisp, decision-ready updates for senior leadership, and you know when to escalate versus resolve, Building OKR or roadmapping systems from scratch in a scaling org, Prior work inside an AI or LLM product company
What You'll Do.
Own end-to-end release coordination
Manage release trains
and ensuring smooth execution
Drive cherry pick and hotfix approval workflows
Author and manage customer-facing release communications
Establish and scale release processes
Map cross-team dependencies and risks
Partner directly with North Leadership and Members of Technical Staff on efforts to improve release quality
and operational rigor
Manage project tracking tools and facilitate release planning sessions
Respond quickly to program-level changes: clarifying scope
and marshalling the right resources
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Build the structure, rhythms, and visibility mechanisms that let multiple product teams and their cross-functional partners execute with clarity; Partner directly with North Leadership and Members of Technical Staff; Facilitate release planning sessions across cross-functional teams; Align Finance, GTM, and engineering leads; Work with or alongside technical leads
Communication Scope
Author and manage customer-facing release communications; Translating technical changes into clear, accurate updates for enterprise customers and internal stakeholders; Executive communication: distill messy, multi-team status into crisp, decision-ready updates for senior leadership
Process & Methodology
Technical Program Management, Release coordination, Release trains, Release cadences, Project tracking, Release planning, Scope clarification, Timeline adjustment, Resource marshalling, Building programs, Running multiple simultaneous workstreams, Building OKR or roadmapping systems
Full Job Description
Who are we? Our mission is to scale intelligence to serve humanity. We’re training and deploying frontier models for developers and enterprises who are building AI systems to power magical experiences like content generation, semantic search, RAG, and agents. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. We like to work hard and move fast to do what’s best for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are passionate about their craft. Each person is one of the best in the world at what they do. We believe that a diverse range of perspectives is a requirement for building great products. Join us on our mission and shape the future! Position Overview Our platform is expanding beyond a single product into a portfolio of new AI-powered product experiences. This is an early-stage, high-visibility program with multiple workstreams in flight.We're looking for an EPM to be the operating backbone of this program. You'll report into our Product Engineering function. This is not a delivery coordination role; it's a program architecture role. You'll build the structure, rhythms, and visibility mechanisms that let multiple product teams and their cross-functional partners execute with clarity. As a Technical Program Manager, you will: - Own end-to-end release coordination for North, including managing release trains, defining cadences, and ensuring smooth execution across engineering and product teams - Drive cherry pick and hotfix approval workflows, triaging urgency, aligning stakeholders, and shepherding changes through to deployment with appropriate guardrails - Author and manage customer-facing release communications, translating technical changes into clear, accurate updates for enterprise customers and internal stakeholders - Establish and
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