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, 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.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience as an Engineering or Technical Program Manager
• Minimum 1 year in LLM training or optimization for a consumer product
• Fluency in English and Arabic
• Detail-oriented and highly self-organized
• Experience working with cross-functional teams across multiple time-zones
• Bias for action and execution focus
• Comfortable holding leaders and individual contributors accountable

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing projects for consumer software and machine learning solutions
• Ability to enable and organize teams, capture detailed notes/action items during technical meetings
• Assertive yet diplomatic follow-up for shipping within deadlines

Benefits

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

About the Company

Cohere's mission is to scale intelligence to serve humanity. The team trains and deploys frontier models for developers and enterprises building AI-powered experiences. At Cohere, you join top researchers, engineers, and designers while fostering diversity, inclusion, and building great products for global impact. The company values hard work, collaboration, and rapid innovation.