About the company
Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems.
We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end technical program delivery for UK public sector and defence customers.
- Serve as the primary technical program point of contact for government customers.
- Translate complex government requirements into actionable engineering plans.
- Navigate government procurement processes, RFP responses, and contractual technical obligations.
- Provide clear, timely, and objective communication across Cohere's engineering organisation and customer stakeholders.
- Translate between AI/ML technical concepts and government-appropriate language.
- Present technical roadmaps and status updates to senior government officials.
- Create and manage project schedules that account for government timelines.
- Identify and manage dependencies across government departments, security authorities, cloud service providers, and internal Cohere teams.
- Navigate risks unique to government deployments.
- Ensure on-time delivery of AI solutions that meet government-grade security, privacy, accessibility, and performance standards.
- Coordinate technical work across multiple teams.
- Establish governance checkpoints appropriate for high-stakes government deployments.
- Problem-solve complex technical challenges in air-gapped, on-premises, or highly 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.
- Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management.
- Experience working with government, defence, or heavily regulated customers.
- Proven track record managing complex, multi-stakeholder technical programs with stringent compliance requirements.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field; advanced degree or technical certs a plus.
- Strong understanding of enterprise software deployment architectures (cloud, on-premises, hybrid, air-gapped).
- Working knowledge of or experience with modern AI: LLMs, agentic systems, MCP, RAG, fine-tuning, evals, and responsible AI.
- Comfortable discussing API integrations, model inference, data pipelines, and ML operations.
- Deep understanding of how government organisations procure, evaluate, and deploy technology.
- Familiarity with UK government requirements: data sovereignty, privacy laws, accessibility standards, official languages obligations, security classifications.
- Understanding of defence and national security considerations in AI deployment.
- Experience with Algorithmic Impact Assessments or AI ethics frameworks is a strong asset.
- Eligible to obtain UK government security clearance (Top Secret preferred).
- Active UK government security clearance is nice to have.
Conditions
- Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent.
- Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health.
- RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme.
- 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months.
- Annual enrichment benefits: Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, workspace improvement credit, education & learning stipend.
- 6 weeks of paid vacation.
- Budget for traveling to other offices if remote, plus an annual company offsite.
- Cohere is remote-friendly, but also has offices in Toronto, London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul.
- $500 home office stipend.