Technical Program Manager, Product Engineering

Position Overview

Our platform is expanding beyond a single product into a portfolio of new AI-powered product experiences. This is an early-stage, high-visibility program with multiple workstreams in flight. We're looking for an EPM to be the operating backbone of this program. You'll report into our Product Engineering function. This is not a delivery coordination role; it's a program architecture role. You'll build the structure, rhythms, and visibility mechanisms that let multiple product teams and their cross-functional partners execute with clarity.

Responsibilities

• Own cross-team program coordination, tracking progress, dependencies, and risks across all workstreams and their functional components (Product, Design, Engineering, Finance, Revenue) simultaneously
• Drive the executive operating cadence, synthesizing status into clear signal and surfacing risks before they become blockers
• Build the program infrastructure from scratch: roadmapping templates, status reporting, milestone tracking, and cross-team dependency mapping, across a program that is nascent and evolving
• Cover shared resources (particularly MLE and PD capacity) across teams, identifying scheduling conflicts and driving prioritization decisions with the relevant leads
• Support each team lead in standing up their weekly team cadence and holding the standard for how progress is communicated upward
• Operate across function and build credibility and influence with stakeholders who don't report into your org

Requirements

You May Be a Good Fit If You:

• 4+ years as an Engineering or Technical Program Manager, with at least some of that time spent at a startup or high-growth company where you built programs rather than inherited them
• Demonstrated experience running multiple simultaneous workstreams. You can hold a complex picture in your head, spot cascading risks early, and keep several parallel programs moving without losing the thread
• Strong executive communication: you know how to distil messy, multi-team status into crisp, decision-ready updates for senior leadership, and you know when to escalate versus resolve
• Fluency with AI/ML product development
• A builder's instinct: comfortable in ambiguous, low-structure environments where you're creating the process, not following it, and pragmatic enough to ship something imperfect rather than wait for perfect
• Cross-functional influence without authority: you've worked in roles where you had to align Finance, GTM, and engineering leads who all had different priorities, and you know how to move people without a mandate
• Experience working with or alongside technical leads: you can have a credible conversation about technical dependencies and constraints without needing things translated
• Prior experience building OKR or roadmapping systems from scratch in a scaling org
• Experience working inside an AI or LLM product company

Full-Time Employees At Cohere Enjoy These Perks

• A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in your local currency for lunch
• Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health
• RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme
• 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent
• Annual enrichment benefits: Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and a workspace improvement credit
• Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching
• 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days!)
• Budget for traveling to other offices if you are remote, plus an annual company offsite

How And Where We Work

• Cohere is remote-friendly. We have offices in Toronto, San Francisco, New York City, London, Paris, Montreal, and more coming soon
• If you are in the office: a daily lunch program, plenty of snacks, and regular community and social events
• If you are remote: a co-working benefit so you can work alongside others in your city
• Everyone receives a $500 home office stipend to set up your workspace properly