Technical Program Manager, Product Engineering
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About the Role
Cohere is seeking a Technical Program Manager to be the operating backbone of a high-visibility program expanding their AI platform into a portfolio of new products.
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Responsibilities
- Own cross team program coordination, tracking progress, dependencies, and risks across all workstreams
- Drive the executive operating cadence, synthesising status into clear signal and surfacing risks
- Build the program infrastructure from scratch: roadmapping templates, status reporting, milestone tracking, and cross team dependency mapping
- Coordinate shared resources (particularly MLE and PD capacity) across teams
- Support each team lead in standing up their weekly team cadence and holding the standard for progress communication
- Operate across function and build credibility and influence with stakeholders
Requirements
- 4+ years as an Engineering or Technical Program Manager, with some time at a startup or high growth company
- Demonstrated experience running multiple simultaneous workstreams
- Strong executive communication skills
- Fluency with AI/ML product development
- A builder's instinct: comfortable in ambiguous, low structure environments
- Cross functional influence without authority
- Experience working with or alongside technical leads
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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, reporting into our Product Engineering function.
- This is not a delivery coordination role; it's a program architecture role.
As a Technical Program Manager, You Will
- 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, synthesising 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.
- Coordinate shared resources (particularly MLE and PD capacity) across teams, identifying scheduling conflicts and driving prioritisation 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.
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.
- Strong executive communication: you know how to distil messy, multi team status into crisp, decision ready updates for senior leadership.
- 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.
- 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.
- Experience working with or alongside technical leads: you can have a credible conversation about technical dependencies and constraints.
Bonus Experience
- Building OKR or roadmapping systems from scratch in a scaling org.
- Prior work inside an AI or LLM product company.
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