Director of Product, North
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About the Role
Cohere is seeking a Director of Product for North, its agentic AI platform, to own the product vision, strategy, and execution. This senior leadership role involves setting the direction for the platform, building and leading a team of product managers, and driving business outcomes for enterprise customers.
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Responsibilities
- Own the product vision, strategy, and execution for North, Cohere's agentic AI platform.
- Set the 6 18 month strategy and bets that build durable advantage.
- Build and lead a high performing product management team across North's surfaces.
- Hold a world class bar on quality, security, and time to value for an enterprise platform deployed inside customer infrastructure.
- Own North's strategy and roadmap, making clear tradeoffs across agent capabilities, enterprise readiness, surfaces, and growth.
- Own the metric tree and the experimentation programs that moves activation, retention, and expansion.
- Drive cross functional alignment across engineering, design, research, sales, customers and partners.
- Engage enterprise customers directly to discover direction with qualitative and quantitative evidence.
- Partner with research and engineering to turn model capabilities into differentiated product.
- Build, coach, and lead the North product team and its operating cadence, in partnership with Engineering and Design.
- Lead the North technical documentation product and team.
Requirements
- 10+ years of product management, including 5+ managing other PMs.
- Track record of owning a product or platform end to end with measurable impact on adoption, retention, and revenue, ideally in enterprise SaaS.
- Product strategy chops: a clear point of view, and the ability to bring an organization along.
- Proven experience of high craft high product sense.
- Experience working directly with high stakes customers and ecosystem partners.
- Analytical by default: define metrics, instrument the product, run and interpret experiments.
- Experience with AI first product management.
- Experience with a least a few domains of: Agentic AI, LLMs, Automation, Productivity, Enterprise security and compliance.
Full Job Posting
Who are we?
- Cohere is the leading security first enterprise AI company. We build cutting edge foundation AI models and end to end products that are designed to solve real world business problems.
- We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems.
- We are a global technology company co headquartered in Toronto and San Francisco, with key offices in London, New York City, Montreal, Seoul, Germany and Paris.
About Cohere And North
- Cohere is revolutionizing enterprise AI with North, an agentic AI platform designed to securely deploy AI agents and automations within organizations' infrastructure.
- North empowers employees to streamline workflows, automate repetitive tasks, and unlock actionable insights while ensuring data privacy and compliance.
Role Overview
- We are seeking a Director of Product for North, to own the product vision, strategy, and execution for North across its entire surface area.
- This is a senior leadership role: you will set the direction for the platform, build and lead a team of product managers, and be accountable for the business outcomes North delivers to some of the world's largest enterprises.
Overview
- Own the product vision, strategy, and execution for North, Cohere's agentic AI platform.
- Set the 6 18 month strategy and bets that build durable advantage.
- Build and lead a high performing product management team across North's surfaces.
- Hold a world class bar on quality, security, and time to value for an enterprise platform deployed inside customer infrastructure.
Outcomes
- North's core product metrics: activation, adoption, retention, and net expansion.
- Clear, aligned strategy and roadmap that leadership, customers, and the team trust.
- Deep partnership with key Enterprise customers and ecosystem partners.
- High performing PM team of customer centric builders.
Responsibilities
- Own North's strategy and roadmap, making clear tradeoffs across agent capabilities, enterprise readiness, surfaces, and growth.
- Own the metric tree and the experimentation programs that moves activation, retention, and expansion.
- Drive cross functional alignment across engineering, design, research, sales, customers and partners.
- Engage enterprise customers directly to discover direction with qualitative and quantitative evidence.
- Partner with research and engineering to turn model capabilities into differentiated product.
- Build, coach, and lead the North product team and its operating cadence, in partnership with Engineering and Design.
- Lead the North technical documentation product and team.
Requirements
- 10+ years of product management, including 5+ managing other PMs.
- Track record of owning a product or platform end to end with measurable impact on adoption, retention, and revenue, ideally in enterprise SaaS.
- Product strategy chops: a clear point of view, and the ability to bring an organization along.
- Proven experience of high craft high product sense.
- Experience working directly with high stakes customers and ecosystem partners.
- Analytical by default: define metrics, instrument the product, run and interpret experiments.
- Experience with AI first product management.
- Experience with a least a few domains of: Agentic AI, LLMs, Automation, Productivity, Enterprise security and compliance.
Full Time Employees At Cohere Enjoy These Perks
- A weekly lunch stipend of CAD 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.
- For those in the office: a daily lunch program, plenty of snacks, and regular community and social events.
- For those not near an office: a co working benefit so you can work alongside others in your city.
- Everyone receives a CAD 500 home office stipend to set up your workspace properly.
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