Technical Program Manager, AI Delivery (Dammam)

Location: Hybrid role open to candidates based in Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Salary: SAR 365K–SAR 525K plus equity

Company

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

What you will do

• Communicate clearly and objectively across engineering, leadership, Cohere teams, strategic customers, and external partners.
• Break down complex issues into strategies and align engineering with product, business, and marketing.
• Create and manage program schedules, identify dependencies and risks, and drive organizational alignment.
• Ensure on-time delivery through checkpoints, status updates, and development planning.
• Identify and resolve issues, coordinate cross-functional dependencies, and prioritize impacts on schedules and product quality.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience as an Engineering or Technical Program Manager, including at least 3 years in customer-facing technical delivery and operations for enterprise-grade AI software or solutions.
• Experience working directly with customers and managing projects for enterprise software or enterprise-focused machine learning solutions.
• Experience shipping technical products, services, or solutions to internal or external customers through cross-functional collaboration.
• Ability to independently own tracking and reporting across multiple workstreams with owners in different time zones.
• Strong problem-solving, organizational, note-taking, action-item tracking, and follow-up skills.
• Ability to hold leaders and individual contributors accountable while remaining assertive and diplomatic.
• Strong execution focus, independence, curiosity, drive, and leadership.

Nice to have

• Knowledge or experience with LLM training or optimization.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid and remote-friendly work environment with offices and coworking support.
• Full health and dental benefits, mental-health budget, and retirement or pension contributions.
• Six weeks of paid vacation, parental leave top-up for up to six months, and annual enrichment benefits.
• Lunch stipend, education and learning stipend, workspace improvement credit, and $500 home-office stipend.
• Travel budget for other offices and an annual company offsite.

Hiring process

• Applicants may be screened and assessed using AI-enabled tools against the position criteria.
• Accommodation requests can be submitted through the provided accommodations form.
• Legitimate roles and recruitment communications are available only through Cohere careers, LinkedIn, and official Cohere email domains.