Jobs at Cohere AI

Manages and mentors the backend and full-stack engineering team responsible for Cohere inference APIs, SDKs, Dashboard, and developer experience. Oversees API capabilities, model releases, customer-facing team management, billing and configuration workflows, and open-source projects. Collaborates with modeling, model serving, UX, and other stakeholders while contributing as a hands-on technical leader. The role emphasizes engineering delivery, team growth, recruiting, communication, documentation, and scaling AI products.

Lead Cohere’s Japan government affairs and public policy strategy across national, prefectural, and municipal governments. Monitor AI policy and regulatory developments, shape advocacy responses, cultivate relationships with lawmakers, regulators, and trade bodies, support public-sector sales and procurement, manage external consultants, and ensure lobbying compliance. The role requires deep AI policy expertise, political and corporate technology experience, bilingual Japanese and English fluency, and familiarity with regulated industries or national security.

Supports the VP of EMEA by managing calendars, meetings, travel, expenses, priorities, and cross-functional initiatives. Leads the global Revenue Executive Assistant team, including performance management, career development, team operations, and process optimization. Coordinates special projects and team events while communicating with internal and external stakeholders and maintaining confidentiality.

Lead Cohere’s Data Foundation pillar, managing a team responsible for the full data lifecycle. Own the roadmap, BigQuery warehouse, Airflow and Cloud Run orchestration, dbt modeling, Looker and API serving, Terraform infrastructure, governance, access controls, reliability, incident response, and data freshness SLAs. Lead development of an agentic analytics platform and evaluation framework, establish company-wide analytics standards, and partner with product, engineering, security, legal, and business teams.

Develops and executes partner go-to-market strategies across Germany and the DACH region for enterprise and public-sector AI markets. Recruits and enables system integrators, cloud providers, resellers, consultancies, and technology partners; drives co-selling, joint pipeline generation, business planning, and ARR growth. Builds relationships with government stakeholders, advises on public-sector compliance and responsible AI, represents partner feedback internally, and promotes Cohere’s solutions through events and thought leadership.

Leads public-sector sales strategy, revenue growth, market expansion, and go-to-market execution across North America. Manages and coaches the public-sector sales team, builds relationships with government decision-makers, agencies, prime contractors, and partners, and closes high-value consultative deals. Collaborates with Marketing, Product, Engineering, and global teams on customer implementations and best practices. Represents the company at industry events and coordinates sales efforts in a matrixed environment.

Design and scale Cohere’s Model Vault backend and inference platform. Lead architecture for authentication, deployments, billing, metering, customer lifecycle, and cloud control-plane services. Build reliable distributed systems with strong guarantees for security, privacy, consistency, isolation, observability, and failure recovery. Drive technically complex initiatives from threat modeling and architecture through implementation, production rollout, operations, and iteration at enterprise scale.

Build and maintain Cohere’s user-facing Dashboard across browser and server environments. Responsibilities include developing resilient, mission-critical systems, crafting intuitive product experiences, collaborating with engineers and stakeholders, removing technical roadblocks, documenting designs, and adopting technologies that improve performance and reliability.

Chief of Staff supporting the Chief AI Officer by managing organizational planning, operating rhythms, budgets, headcount, business reviews, cross-functional dependencies, and strategic initiatives. The role coordinates research, modeling, product, delivery, security, finance, and other teams to ensure priorities are aligned and programs ship effectively. It also leads special projects, facilitates executive communication, resolves ownership and trade-off issues, and represents the AI organization in high-stakes discussions.

The Applied AI Engineer will design, build, and deploy enterprise-grade AI agents using LLMs, collaborate with customers, and mentor teams to enhance engineering quality.

Lead product and technology communications for Cohere by partnering with product, engineering, research, and GTM teams. Develop messaging, launch materials, thought leadership, and crisis communications; translate complex AI/technical concepts for technical and non-technical audiences; use insights to refine messaging and drive cross-functional alignment.

Own and evolve Cohere’s Waypoint design system across Figma and production code. Responsibilities include maintaining component libraries, design tokens, documentation, sync tooling, and component packages; partnering with designers and engineers; making architecture and versioning decisions; and exploring how AI models can consume design systems. The role also supports accessibility, multi-platform systems, and design-to-code workflows.

Own the full sales cycle for net-new enterprise technology accounts, from prospecting and relationship building through proof-of-concept, contract close, deployment, and expansion. Develop consultative value propositions for AI and NLP solutions, collaborate with channel partners and internal product, engineering, marketing, sales development, and customer success teams, and exceed quota through strategic multi-year enterprise deals.

Own the full sales cycle for German public sector (defense, federal, local) customers: prospecting, solutioning, POC, procurement, and closing. Build strategic relationships with government decision-makers, partners, and system integrators, collaborate cross-functionally to shape product roadmap, and drive territory growth while meeting quota and travel requirements.

Lead end-to-end technical programs for ML infrastructure (inference, serving, efficiency, endpoints). Coordinate cross-functional teams, prioritize overlapping projects, manage timelines, budgets and scope, drive incident management and continuous improvement, and communicate status to engineering and leadership.

Owns the full enterprise sales cycle across the UK and Benelux, from outbound prospecting and pipeline generation through closing transformational deals. Builds executive relationships, sells complex AI and private deployment solutions, navigates data sovereignty and regulatory requirements, coordinates partners and systems integrators, and collaborates with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales Development teams. The role requires territory ownership, strategic account development, rigorous MEDDPICC qualification, and frequent engagement with senior enterprise stakeholders.

Lead and stand up executive communications for Cohere: refine strategy, manage a small team, drive executive content (speaking, op-eds, social), enable rapid response and crisis readiness, oversee speaking engagements and storytelling, partner cross-functionally to amplify executive thought leadership for regulated enterprise and government audiences.

Owns revenue enablement programs for EMEA field teams from design through rollout, measurement, and iteration. Responsibilities include creating sales resources, implementing MEDDPICC, building certifications, managing enablement platforms, coaching sellers, partnering with GTM teams, using analytics and AI workflows, and reporting program impact through metrics such as ramp time, win rates, pipeline generation, and deal velocity.

Own and evolve Cohere’s global narrative through executive thought leadership, policy storytelling, and corporate communications. Partner with senior executives and marketing to develop video, podcast, and other content; establish scalable production workflows; build AI-enabled content pipelines; capture event content; and create playbooks for launches, regulatory milestones, customer wins, and other key moments. The role also audits executive communications, develops flagship storytelling, and scales successful content surfaces based on performance and capacity.

Provides internal IT support across APAC, troubleshooting devices, networks, productivity tools, identity systems, and meeting-room technology. Manages employee onboarding and offboarding, account provisioning, hardware inventory, repairs, documentation, and knowledge-base procedures. Supports Okta, Google Workspace, MDM platforms, MFA, SSO, Slack, and Microsoft Office 365 while delivering customer-focused incident response. The role also uses scripting, automation, and DevOps practices to improve IT workflows and reduce manual effort.