Technical Program Manager, Product Engineering

Cohere; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly lunch stipend $75/75£

Full health and dental benefits

RRSP matching/401K

Parental Leave

Away enrichment stipend

Vacation time

Home office stipend

Job summary

Cohere is seeking a Technical Program Manager to serve as the operating backbone of an AI program. You will own cross-team coordination across Product, Design, Engineering, Finance and Revenue, and build the structure, rhythms, and visibility mechanisms for multiple workstreams.

You have 4+ years of Engineering or Technical Program Management experience at startups or high-growth firms. You’ll distill complex status into crisp updates for executives and drive prioritisation with leads across

Qualifications

• 4+ years as an Engineering or Technical Program Manager, with startup or high-growth experience.
• Experience running multiple simultaneous workstreams and managing complex programs.
• Strong executive communication; ability to present status to senior leadership clearly.
• Fluency with AI/ML product development and decisions.
• Builder’s mindset; thrives in ambiguous, low-structure environments.
• Cross-functional influence across Finance, GTM, and engineering leads.

Responsibilities

• Own cross-team program coordination across Product, Design, Engineering, Finance, and Revenue.
• Drive the executive operating cadence and surface risks early.
• Build program infrastructure: roadmaps, status reporting, milestones, and dependency maps.
• Coordinate shared resources and drive prioritisation decisions with leads.
• Support team leads in weekly cadences and standardize progress communication.
• Influence stakeholders across functions who do not report into your org.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

AI/ML product development

Executive communication

Multi-workstream management

Stakeholder influence

Technical dependencies

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 co-headquartered in Toronto and San Francisco, with key offices in London, New York City, Montreal, Seoul, Germany and Paris. Join us!

Position Overview

Our platform is expanding beyond a single product into a portfolio of new AI-powered product experiences. This is an early-stage, high-visibility program with multiple workstreams in flight. We're looking for an EPM to be the operating backbone of this program. You'll report into our Product Engineering function. This is not a delivery coordination role; it's a program architecture role. You'll build the structure, rhythms, and visibility mechanisms that let multiple product teams and their cross-functional partners execute with clarity.

As a Technical Program Manager, you will:

• Own cross-team program coordination, tracking progress, dependencies, and risks across all workstreams and their functional components (Product, Design, Engineering, Finance, Revenue) simultaneously

• Drive the executive operating cadence, synthesising status into clear signal and surfacing risks before they become blockers

• Build the program infrastructure from scratch: roadmapping templates, status reporting, milestone tracking, and cross-team dependency mapping, across a program that is nascent and evolving

• Coordinate shared resources (particularly MLE and PD capacity) across teams, identifying scheduling conflicts and driving prioritisation decisions with the relevant leads

• Support each team lead in standing up their weekly team cadence and holding the standard for how progress is communicated upward

• Operate across function and build credibility and influence with stakeholders who don't report into your org.

You may be a good fit if you:

• 4+ years as an Engineering or Technical Program Manager, with at least some of that time spent at a startup or high-growth company where you built programs rather than inherited them

• Demonstrated experience running multiple simultaneous workstreams. You can hold a complex picture in your head, spot cascading risks early, and keep several parallel programs moving without losing the thread

• Strong executive communication: you know how to distil messy, multi-team status into crisp, decision-ready updates for senior leadership, and you know when to elevate versus resolve

• Fluency with AI/ML product development

• A builder's instinct: comfortable in ambiguous, low-structure environments where you're creating the process, not following it, and pragmatic enough to ship something imperfect rather than wait for perfect

• Cross-functional influence without authority: you've worked in roles where you had to align Finance, GTM, and engineering leads who all had different priorities, and you know how to move people without a mandate

• Experience working with or alongside technical leads: you can have a credible conversation about technical dependencies and constraints without needing things translated.

Bonus experience

• Building OKR or roadmapping systems from scratch in a scaling org

• Prior work inside an AI or LLM product company.

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.

• Annual enrichment benefits:

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

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

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

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

How and Where We Work:

• Cohere is remote-friendly. We have offices in Toronto, San Francisco, New York City, London, Paris, Montreal, and more coming 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.

We 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.

We may use AI-enabled tools to screen and assess applicants against the criteria for this position. This helps our recruiters identify potentially qualified candidates, but it doesn't limit the applications our recruiters may review or consider.