[Remote] Technical Program Manager, North Platform at Cohere

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Not SpecifiedCompensation
Mid-level (3 to 4 years), Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Machine LearningIndustries

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience as an Incident Technical/Engineering Program Manager, with technical expertise and experience, including exposure to SaaS/cloud environments
  • Strong understanding of incident management programs such as Incident.io, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Rootly, Atlassian or equivalent
  • Hands-on experience with creating incident management programs from 0-1 and leading incident management programs within enterprise-level environments
  • Detail-oriented, self-organized, and collaborative—excelling at note-taking, action tracking, and enabling teams
  • Strong communication skills (written and verbal), able to simplify complex issues for multiple stakeholders both internally and externally
  • Bias for action, balancing execution focus with diplomacy and accountability
  • Experience shipping technical products/services across cross-functional teams (including remote/global stakeholders)
  • Curiosity, drive, independence, and leadership
  • Hands-on experience managing projects for enterprise-grade software or enterprise-focused machine learning solutions
  • Based on the East Coast, or flexible to travel

Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage the end-to-end lifecycle of all major incidents within Cohere’s environment, ensuring effective communication, escalation, and resolution
  • Deliver clear, timely, and objective updates across engineering, leadership, and non-technical teams for major incidents, specifically leading all P1-P4 incidents throughout their lifecycle and ensuring management within respective SLAs
  • Break down complex challenges into actionable strategies, aligning engineering with all relevant stakeholders
  • Coordinate across all engineering teams ensuring global coverage for all of Cohere’s customers
  • Assist in developing and maintaining incident playbooks for common or anticipated incident scenarios
  • Work with engineering managers to enhance monitoring capabilities and triage process to mitigate future incidents
  • Work closely with Security, IT, and Engineering teams to ensure resolutions are prioritized and mitigated
  • Deliver post-mortem updates after an incident with clear actions
  • Proactively resolve issues, coordinate dependencies, and prioritize impacts to quality and timelines

Skills

Technical Program Management
Incident Management
Project Management
Enterprise Software
Machine Learning
LLM
Stakeholder Communication
Escalation Management
Engineering Leadership

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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