Technical Program Manager, AI Delivery (Dammam)

cohere; Saudi Arabia; Hybrid; SAR 450,000 - 637,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch stipend

Health benefits

RRSP/401K/Pension

Parental Leave top-up

Paid vacation

Travel budget & offsite

Enrichment stipend

Education stipend

Job summary

Cohere is seeking an experienced Engineering Program Manager to join our customer-facing Engineering Program Management team. If you have hands-on experience coordinating enterprise AI software projects with customers, you will play a pivotal role in shaping Cohere’s operations and delivering high-impact outcomes.

We value curiosity, drive, independence and leadership as you collaborate with Strategic Customers, AML, FDE, Platform, Product and Go‑to‑Market teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as an Engineering/Technical Program Manager with at least 3 years in customer-facing technical delivery for enterprise AI software/solutions.
• Knowledge or experience with LLM training or optimization is a differentiator.
• Strong communication, organization, and leadership in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.

Responsibilities

• Communicate clearly across the tech org, Cohere teams, leadership, and strategic customers/external partners.
• Break down complex issues into actionable strategies and align engineering with product, business, and marketing.
• Create and manage program/project schedules, identify dependencies, manage risks, and drive organizational alignment.
• Ensure on-time delivery, identify development needs, and establish status checkpoints.
• Proactively identify and resolve issues, coordinate cross-functional dependencies, and prioritize schedule impacts.

Skills

Program management

Customer-facing delivery

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Risk management

Project scheduling

Problem solving

Job description

Who are we?

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're training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that.

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. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft.

We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us!

Why this role?

We're seeking an experienced Engineering Program Manager to join Cohere's customer-facing Engineering Program Management team. We need someone with curiosity, drive, independence, and leadership, who has hands‑on experience working directly with customers and managing projects for enterprise‑grade software or enterprise‑focused machine learning solutions.

In return, you'll have the unique opportunity to shape Cohere's operations, collaborate with leading minds in the LLM space, work directly with our Strategic Customers as well as Applied ML (AML) Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE), Platform , Product and Go‑to‑Market teams, and be the \"technical\" voice of Cohere for the customer. You will get a chance to create extremely high‑impact contributions to our fast‑growing company, product and culture.

Please Note: This role is open to candidates based in [Dammam]

As an Engineering Program Manager/ Technical Program Manager, you will:

• Communicate: Provide clear, timely, and objective communication across the tech organization, Cohere teams, leadership, and most importantly - our strategic customers 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 program/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.

You may be a good fit if:

• You have at least 5 years of experience as an Engineering or Technical Program Manager, with at least 3 years in customer-facing technical delivery and operations focused on enterprise-grade AI software/solutions


• Knowledge or experience with LLM training or optimization would be a key differentiator


• You are problem-focused and making customers successful really excites you


• 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 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.

Full-Time Employees at Cohere enjoy these Perks:

• A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in your local currency for lunch.


• 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, for either parent.


• 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days!)


• Budget for traveling to other offices if you are remote, plus an annual company offsite.

Annual enrichment benefits:

• Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and a workspace improvement credit.


• Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching.

How and Where We Work:

Cohere is remote-friendly, but we also have offices in Toronto, London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul with more opening soon.

For those in the office: a daily lunch program, plenty of snacks, and regular community and social events.

For those not near an office: a co-working benefit so you can work alongside others in your city.

Everyone receives a $500 home office stipend to set up your workspace properly.

If any of the above doesn't line up exactly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply.

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