Engineering Program Manager, Enterprise AI (Middle East)

Responsibilities

• Communicate: Provide clear, timely, and objective communication across the tech organization, Cohere teams, leadership, and external partners.
• Optimize: Break down complex issues into strategies, aligning engineering 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.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience as an Engineering or Technical Program Manager, with minimum 1 year in LLM training or optimization for a consumer product.
• Fluency in both English and Arabic.
• Detail-oriented and extremely self-organized, with strong skills in capturing notes/action items during technical meetings and tracking progress.
• Strong execution focus and results-driven mindset.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams to deliver technical products or solutions, with ability to independently track and report across multiple work-streams and time zones.
• Comfortable holding both leaders and individual contributors accountable while maintaining professionalism and diplomacy.
• Authorized to work in the Middle East.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in consumer software or machine learning solution projects.
• Strong coordination skills with diverse teams (Product, Platform, Marketing).
• Demonstrated bias for action and proactive problem-solving abilities.

Benefits

• An 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 mental health budget
• 100% Parental Leave top-up for 6 months (for Canada, US, and UK employees)
• Personal enrichment benefits towards arts, fitness, well-being, quality time, and workspace
• Remote-flexible arrangement, offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco and London, and co-working stipend
• 6 weeks of vacation

About the Company

Cohere's mission is to scale intelligence to serve humanity. The company trains and deploys frontier models for developers and enterprises building AI systems for applications such as content generation, semantic search, and agents. Cohere's diverse team is dedicated to increasing AI capabilities and delivering value to customers. Cohere values inclusivity and encourages applicants from all backgrounds to apply.

Note: This post is co-authored by both Cohere humans and Cohere technology.