Director of Product, Foundation Models

Cohere in Toronto, Palo Alto, San Francisco, London

Who are we?
We’re a small, diverse team working at the cutting edge of machine learning. At Cohere, our mission is to build machines that understand the world and to make them safely accessible to all. Language is at the crux of this, but it can be difficult and expensive to parse the syntax, semantics, and context that all work together to give words meaning. The Cohere platform provides access to Large Language Models through its APIs that read billions of web pages and learns to understand the meaning, sentiment, and intent of the words we use in a richness never seen before.

We've raised our Series B , signed a multi-year partnership with Google Cloud , and we are focused on bringing our technology to market. We will partner with customers so they can build natural language understanding and generation into their products with just a few lines of code.

We’re ambitious — we believe our technology will fundamentally transform how industries interact with natural language. And we have the technical chops to back it up - Cohere’s CEO, Aidan Gomez, is a co-author of the groundbreaking paper “Attention is all you need” , (over 53k citations) and was previously part of Google Brain. Our entire technical team is world-class.

We are focused on creating a diverse and inclusive work environment so that all of our team members can thrive. We welcome kind and brilliant people to our team, from wherever they come.

Why this role?
Product Managers have the unique opportunity and responsibility to both define product vision and drive results. On this team, you’ll get to work with one of the leading AI and NLP teams in the world and grow the product vision and company culture.

Please Note : We have offices in Toronto, Palo Alto, and London but embrace being remote-first! There are no restrictions on where you can be located for this role.


If some of the above doesn’t line up perfectly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply! If you consider yourself a thoughtful worker, a lifelong learner, and a kind and playful team member, Cohere is the place for you.

We welcome applicants of all kinds and are committed to providing both an equal opportunity process and work environment. We value and celebrate diversity and strive to create an inclusive work environment for all.

Our Perks:
🤝 An open and inclusive culture and work environment
🧑‍💻 Work closely with a team on the cutting edge of AI research
🍽 Free daily lunch
🦷 Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget to take care of your mental health
🐣 100% Parental Leave top-up for 6 months for employees based in Canada, the US, and the UK
🎨 Personal enrichment benefits towards arts and culture, fitness and well-being, quality time, and workspace improvement
🏙 Remote-flexible, offices in Toronto, Palo Alto, and London and coworking stipend
✈️ 6 weeks of vacation and shared Canada/US/UK holidays

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    • LLM research, development and capabilities are moving at a blistering pace;  shape the direction of our data and modelling efforts so that as new capabilities come online they are aligned with new product and market opportunities
    • Guide our modelling efforts based on customer and developer needs.  Ensure that we are improving in ways that solve business problems for our customers
    • Be a translator between the commercial sphere of user needs and customer opportunities and the ML team’s daily context in applied research and development, data, and evaluation
    • Work with co-founders, CPO, Engineering, and Design by championing collaboration, communication, and process improvements
    • Research the competitive landscape, industry trends, and stay up to date on the latest AI and deep learning papers from leading conferences (NeurIPS, ICLR, etc.) to find new ideas and inspire the team
    • Define vision, strategy, roadmap, and success metrics for Cohere’s generative AI modelling effort
    • Hands-on leadership for a team of PMs that you will build
    • Leverage insights from customer engagement to identify the right user problems and solve them based on business impact and modelling feasibility
    • Promote a culture of learning and provide mentorship to team members
    • Be an influential member of the Product team who markets and celebrates successes and documents learnings, internally and externally
    • 5+ years of senior leadership experience
    • A proven track record of effectively leading and executing a scaled ML product
    • Direct experience working as part of a technical team building LLMs
    • A scrappy, startup mentality to move fast, iterate quickly, learn on the go, and take initiative
    • Previous experience in all parts of the product lifecycle - from problem definition to post-launch
    • Experience building, growing, and empowering teams
    • Great communication and interpersonal skills working across different teams, personalities, and working styles
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