Technical Program Manager (AI)

Location: Remote, based in Germany; German citizenship and fluency in German are required.

Company

Cohere is a security-first enterprise AI company building foundation models and end-to-end AI products for real-world business and government use cases.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end technical program delivery for German and broader European public sector and defence customers, from initial deployment through production scaling.
• Serve as the primary technical program contact for customers and build relationships with CIOs, IT directors, technical teams, and senior stakeholders.
• Translate security, compliance, accessibility, bilingualism, and data sovereignty requirements into actionable engineering plans.
• Manage procurement processes, RFP responses, contractual technical obligations, schedules, dependencies, risks, and governance checkpoints.
• Coordinate model customisation, security hardening, government-system integrations, bilingual support, and delivery across AML Engineering, FDE, Platform, Product, and Go-to-Market teams.
• Deliver AI solutions in cloud, on-premises, hybrid, air-gapped, and highly regulated environments while meeting security, privacy, accessibility, and performance standards.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience as a customer-facing Technical or Engineering Program Manager in AI/ML consulting, technology transformation, or enterprise software delivery.
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working with government, defence, or heavily regulated customers.
• Proven experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder technical programs with stringent compliance requirements.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• Strong understanding of enterprise software deployment architectures, including cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and air-gapped environments.
• Ability to discuss API integrations, model inference, data pipelines, and ML operations with technical stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of government and defence procurement, evaluation, and technology deployment.
• Familiarity with European government requirements, including data sovereignty, privacy laws, accessibility standards, official-language obligations, and security classifications.
• Understanding of defence and national security considerations in AI deployment.
• German citizenship, eligibility for German government security clearance, residence in Germany, and fluency in German.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree or technical certifications.
• Working knowledge of or experience with LLMs, agentic systems, MCP, RAG, fine-tuning, evaluations, and responsible AI.
• Experience with Algorithmic Impact Assessments or AI ethics frameworks.
• Active German security clearance.
• Bilingual English/German proficiency.
• Background in or strong familiarity with European defence, intelligence, or critical infrastructure sectors.
• Experience with GC Cloud services such as Azure or AWS GovCloud, or Protected B/C environments.
• PMP, PgMP, or government-specific methodology certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-friendly work with coworking support for employees away from an office and a home office stipend.
• Health and dental benefits, including a separate mental health budget.
• Six weeks of paid vacation, parental leave top-up, and pension or retirement matching schemes.
• Weekly lunch stipend, annual enrichment benefits, and education and learning stipend.
• Budget for travel to other offices and an annual company offsite.
• Offices are available in Toronto, London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin, and Seoul.