Engineering Program Manager, Enterprise AI (Middle East)

Stryker Corporation; Dubai; Remote; AED 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI company is seeking an experienced Engineering Program Manager based in the Middle East. The role involves optimizing project management processes for machine learning solutions, collaborating with diverse teams, and ensuring on-time delivery. Ideal candidates will have 5+ years in program management and fluency in English and Arabic. The position offers a diverse work environment and competitive perks.

Benefits

Inclusive work culture

Weekly lunch stipend

Health and dental benefits

Parental Leave top-up

6 weeks of vacation

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience as Engineering or Technical Program Manager.
• 1+ year in LLM training or optimization for consumer product.
• Detail-oriented and self-organized.

Responsibilities

• Provide clear communication across the organization.
• Optimize complex issues into aligned strategies.
• Manage project schedules and risks.

Skills

Project management

Communication

Optimizing engineering processes

Problem solving

Bilingual (English and Arabic)

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!

Why this role?

We're seeking an Engineering Program Manager to join Cohere. We need someone with curiosity, drive, independence, and leadership, who has hands-on experience managing projects for consumer software and machine learning solutions and building large-scale processes to improve engineering operations. In return, you'll have the unique opportunity to shape Cohere's operations, collaborate with leading minds in the LLM space, working with Platform, Product, and Marketing teams, and contribute to our fast-growing product and culture.

Please Note: This role is only available to candidates based in the Middle East.

Responsibilities

• Communicate: Provide clear, timely, and objective communication across the tech organization, Cohere teams, leadership, and external partners.
• Optimize: Break down complex issues into strategies, driving engineering alignment with product, business, and marketing while fostering collaboration.
• Plan: Create and manage project schedules, identify dependencies, manage risks, and drive organizational alignment.
• Execute: Ensure on-time delivery, identify development needs, and establish checkpoints for status updates.
• Problem solve: Proactively identify and resolve issues, coordinate cross-functional dependencies, and prioritize impacts to schedule and product quality.

Requirements

• You have at least 5 years of experience as an Engineering or Technical Program Manager, with at least 1 year in LLM training or optimization for a consumer product.
• You are fluent in both English and Arabic.
• You are detail-oriented and extremely self-organized. You love enabling people and teams around you, and are excellent at capturing detailed notes/action items during highly technical meetings and tracking progress.
• You have a Bias for Action - you are very execution focused and you like getting things done.
• You have experience working with cross-functional teams (more than one team) to get technical products, services or solutions shipped to an internal or an external customer and can independently own tracking and reporting across multiple work-streams, with owners in different time-zones.
• You are comfortable holding leaders and individual contributors accountable. You can be assertive while remaining diplomatic. You are not afraid to follow up with people to ensure shipping within committed deadlines.

We value and celebrate diversity and strive to create an inclusive work environment for all. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities. Should you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please submit an Accommodations Request Form, and we will work together to meet your needs.

Perks

• An open and inclusive culture and work environment
• Work closely with a team on the cutting edge of AI research
• Weekly lunch stipend, in-office lunches & snacks
• Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget to take care of your mental health
• 100% Parental Leave top-up for 6 months for employees based in Canada, the US, and the UK
• Personal enrichment benefits towards arts and culture, fitness and well-being, quality time, and workspace improvement
• Remote-flexible, offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco, London and Paris, as well as a co-working stipend
• 6 weeks of vacation