Senior Product, Designer, Usability & Adoption at Cohere

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Artificial Intelligence, TechnologyIndustries

Requirements

  • Product Design Experience: 4+ years designing digital products with a strong portfolio that demonstrates your process, systems thinking, and measurable impact on user outcomes
  • Cross-Functional Partnership: A collaborative approach to product development—working closely with Product Managers to identify opportunities, with Engineers to navigate technical constraints and review implementations, and with stakeholders across the organization to align on solutions
  • User-Centered Approach: A deep commitment to understanding user needs through research and direct engagement. You drive research initiatives, translate findings into design decisions, and stay informed on industry trends and AI developments that shape the product landscape
  • Craft Excellence: Meticulous attention to craft and detail. You're proficient in Figma, build scalable component systems, and consistently elevate the quality of everything you touch. Bonus points for strong visual design skills in typography, layout, color, and composition
  • Communication Skills: Clear, proactive communication

Responsibilities

  • Own the design process end-to-end for Usability and Adoption initiatives
  • Identify opportunities to improve platform learnability, feature discoverability, and user engagement through data analysis and qualitative research
  • Design and ship rapid experiments to test hypotheses about user behaviour, iterating quickly based on results while maintaining a high quality bar for user experience
  • Leverage and extend existing design systems to move fast without sacrificing consistency, knowing when to use established patterns and when to introduce new ones
  • Balance technical complexity and constraints with intuitive user experience, collaborating closely with engineers to find pragmatic solutions that ship quickly and deliver measurable impact
  • Conduct lightweight user research to uncover insights and validate design directions quickly. Develop deep empathy for users at every stage of their journey, understanding their needs, motivations, and pain points through research and direct engagement
  • Partner closely with product managers and engineers throughout the entire product development process, building strong collaborative relationships that enable rapid iteration and continuous improvement
  • Define and track success metrics for adoption initiatives, using quantitative and qualitative data to inform design decisions and demonstrate impact

Skills

Product Design
Usability Testing
User Research
Design Systems
Experimentation
Data Analysis
Qualitative Research
User Experience
Prototyping
A/B Testing
Figma
User Journey Mapping

Cohere

Provides NLP tools and LLMs via API

About Cohere

Cohere provides advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools and Large Language Models (LLMs) through a user-friendly API. Their services cater to a wide range of clients, including businesses that want to improve their content generation, summarization, and search functions. Cohere's business model focuses on offering scalable and affordable generative AI tools, generating revenue by granting API access to pre-trained models that can handle tasks like text classification, sentiment analysis, and semantic search in multiple languages. The platform is customizable, enabling businesses to create smarter and faster solutions. With multilingual support, Cohere effectively addresses language barriers, making it suitable for international use.

Toronto, CanadaHeadquarters
2019Year Founded
$914.4MTotal Funding
SERIES_DCompany Stage
AI & Machine LearningIndustries
501-1,000Employees

Risks

Competitors like Google and Microsoft may overshadow Cohere with seamless enterprise system integration.
Reliance on Nvidia chips poses risks if supply chain issues arise or strategic focus shifts.
High cost of AI data center could strain financial resources if government funding is delayed.

Differentiation

Cohere's North platform outperforms Microsoft Copilot and Google Vertex AI in enterprise functions.
Rerank 3.5 model processes queries in over 100 languages, enhancing multilingual search capabilities.
Command R7B model excels in RAG, math, and coding, outperforming competitors like Google's Gemma.

Upsides

Cohere's AI data center project positions it as a key player in Canadian AI.
North platform offers secure AI deployment for regulated industries, enhancing privacy-focused enterprise solutions.
Cohere's multilingual support breaks language barriers, expanding its global market reach.

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