Product Manager, Platform Experience & Developer Product

Cohere; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Open and inclusive culture

Weekly lunch stipend

Full health and dental benefits

100% parental leave top-up

6 weeks of vacation

Job summary

Cohere is looking for a Platform Experience and Developer PM to enhance their model platform. This role requires over 5 years of product management experience, particularly with developer tools and APIs. Responsibilities include driving the roadmap, engaging with customers to solve integration challenges, and defining metrics for success. The role offers a hybrid work environment with competitive compensation, equity options, health benefits, and substantial vacation leave, ensuring a positive work-life balance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience, especially with developer-facing products.
• Strong technical fluency in API design and SDK development.
• Experience building developer tooling surfaces like dashboards and analytics.
• Strong collaborator across diverse teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive the roadmap for services, APIs, and developer tooling.
• Engage with customers to understand integration challenges.
• Define success metrics for platform health and developer experience.

Skills

Product management

API design

SDK development

Technical infrastructure

Developer experience

Collaboration

Analytics

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 building AI systems to power content generation, semantic search, RAG, and agents. We believe our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI.

Role Overview

Platform Experience and Developer PM responsible for how developers and enterprise technical teams build on, integrate with, and operate Cohere's model platform. This high-leverage role sits at the intersection of managed services, APIs/SDKs, and developer tooling.

Responsibilities

• Drive the roadmap across managed services, APIs, SDKs, and developer tooling, balancing near‑term customer needs with long‑term platform investment.
• Translate model and infrastructure capabilities into well‑designed product surfaces that developers and enterprise operators can rely on.
• Engage directly with customers and developers to understand integration challenges, validate priorities, and surface unmet needs.
• Define success metrics for platform health and developer experience, and lead initiatives to move them.
• Partner with engineering, research, technical writing, and developer relations to ship and document platform improvements.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product management experience, with meaningful time owning developer‑facing or platform‑layer products such as APIs, SDKs, developer tools, or technical infrastructure.
• Strong technical fluency with API design and SDK development, including versioning, backward compatibility, and creating a polished developer experience.
• Track record of thinking about infrastructure as a product, translating system‑level capabilities into differentiated, customer‑facing features.
• Experience building or owning developer tooling surfaces such as consoles, dashboards, usage analytics, or observability and debugging tools.
• Analytical by default: define success metrics before building, instrument thoughtfully, and use data alongside qualitative feedback to make decisions.
• Strong collaborator who works well across engineering, design, infrastructure, and GTM teams, and can communicate technical tradeoffs clearly to a range of stakeholders.
• Highly execution‑oriented with a bias toward shipping and iterating quickly.
• Demonstrated ownership across the full product lifecycle — from problem definition and scoping through launch, iteration, and eventual deprecation or migration.

Nice‑to‑Haves

• Experience owning a model serving or inference platform, including deployment models such as multi‑tenant and dedicated infrastructure.
• Exposure to data residency, sovereignty, or regional compliance requirements as they apply to AI or cloud infrastructure products.
• Familiarity with asynchronous and high‑throughput workload patterns and the product considerations they introduce around job management, status visibility, and cost attribution.
• Familiarity with the AI developer ecosystem and open standards, including orchestration frameworks such as LangChain and LlamaIndex, model serving frameworks such as vLLM, and awareness of de‑facto interoperability standards and how they shape developer adoption and integration patterns.

Why Join Cohere?

• Impact: shape the developer surface of one of the world’s leading enterprise AI platforms, used by developers and enterprises building production AI systems at scale.
• Innovation: work alongside leading researchers and engineers solving complex ML challenges at the frontier of AI.
• Growth: competitive compensation, equity options, and opportunities for professional development.
• Flexibility: hybrid work model with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Toronto.

Location

Remote or hybrid (San Francisco, New York, Toronto).

Benefits

• 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 care for mental health.
• 100% parental leave top‑up for up to 6 months.
• Personal enrichment benefits toward arts, culture, fitness, well‑being, quality time, and workspace improvement.
• Remote‑flexible offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco, London, and Paris, plus a co‑working stipend.
• 6 weeks of vacation (30 working days).

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. If you require accommodations during the recruitment process, please submit an accommodations request form and we will work together to meet your needs.