Technical Program Manager, AI Delivery

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🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔧 Technical Program Manager

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Cohere

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11 - 50 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise • SaaS

Cohere is a leading enterprise AI platform optimized for generative AI, search and discovery, and advanced retrieval. The company offers AI-powered applications designed to augment and elevate the global workforce, helping businesses thrive in the AI era. Cohere provides solutions such as embedding and reranking models, allowing enterprises to efficiently retrieve information and build powerful applications. The company offers flexible deployment options for enterprise-grade AI, on any cloud or on-premises, and provides extensive developer resources and support. Cohere is committed to scaling intelligence to serve humanity, making intelligence abundant, affordable, and accessible.

📋 Description

• Own end-to-end technical program delivery for Germany and broader European public sector and defence customers, from initial deployment through production scaling • Serve as the primary technical program point of contact for customers, building trusted relationships with departmental CIOs, IT directors, and technical teams • Translate public sector and defence requirements into actionable engineering plans • Navigate complex procurement processes, RFP responses, and contractual technical obligations • Provide clear, timely, and objective communication across engineering, customer, public sector, and defence stakeholders • Translate AI/ML technical concepts into government-appropriate language for decision-makers • Present technical roadmaps and status updates to senior stakeholders and departmental executives • Represent Cohere’s technical capabilities in sensitive government and defence contexts • Create and manage project schedules accounting for government and defence timelines, security reviews, and approval cycles • Identify and manage dependencies across government departments, security authorities, cloud service providers, and internal teams • Navigate privacy, security, political, regulatory, technology, and infrastructure risks • Drive alignment between product development priorities and customer requirements • Ensure on-time delivery of AI solutions meeting security, privacy, accessibility, and performance standards • Coordinate technical work across model customisation, security hardening, government-system integration, and bilingual support • Establish governance checkpoints for high-stakes government and defence deployments • Solve complex technical challenges in air-gapped, on-premises, or highly regulated environments

🎯 Requirements

• Must be a German citizen living in Germany • Fluent in German • 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 • Experience working with government, defence, or heavily regulated customers • Proven track record managing complex, multi-stakeholder technical programs with stringent compliance requirements • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field • Strong understanding of enterprise software deployment architectures: cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and air-gapped • Working knowledge of modern AI, including LLMs, agentic systems, MCP, RAG, fine-tuning, evals, and responsible AI • Comfortable discussing API integrations, model inference, data pipelines, and ML operations with technical stakeholders • Deep understanding of government and defence technology procurement, evaluation, and 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 • Eligible to obtain a German security clearance • Active German security clearance is a nice-to-have • Bilingual English/German proficiency is a nice-to-have • Background in or strong familiarity with European defence, intelligence, or critical infrastructure sectors is a nice-to-have • Experience with GC Cloud services such as Azure and AWS GovCloud or Protected B/C environments is a nice-to-have • Project management certification such as PMP or PgMP, or government-specific methodologies, is a nice-to-have

🏖️ Benefits

• A weekly lunch stipend of $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 • Co-working benefit for employees not near an office • $500 home office stipend • For office-based employees: daily lunch program, snacks, and regular community and social events