Engineering Program Manager

Cohere

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.

As An Engineering Program Manager, You Will

• 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.
  
  

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 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