Associate, Strategy and Business Operations

Who are we?

Our mission is to scale intelligence to serve humanity. We’re training and deploying frontier models for developers and enterprises who are building AI systems to power magical experiences like content generation, semantic search, RAG, and agents. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI.

We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. We like to work hard and move fast to do what’s best for our customers.

Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are passionate about their craft. Each person is one of the best in the world at what they do. We believe that a diverse range of perspectives is a requirement for building great products.

Join us on our mission and shape the future!

The Strategy and Business Development team’s mission is to support decision making on critical C-level topics and act as a force-multiplier for functional priorities across the organization. We partner with leaders in a strategic and operational capacity, and our work spans office-of-the-President central decision support to embedded functional projects both internally and externally.

You will enjoy this role if you:

• Thrive in fast-paced environments requiring balancing across multiple competing priorities

• Are curious and consider yourself a life-long learner

• Are an excellent communicator, and can collaborate effectively and transparently

• Can think in both long- and short-term timescales

• Comfortable operating in-the-weeds (eg pulling insights from data, topic deep dives, engaging with key prospects) and at the big-picture level to develop and communicate recommendations to leadership

In this role you will:

• Influence strategic decision-making by collaborating with and building consensus among leaders across the organization, including Product, GTM, Research and Engineering

• Support external commercial efforts with emerging corporate priorities (i.e. Sovereign AI, new global geographical priorities)

• Analyze the company's unit economics to identify areas of improvement, key trends and opportunities for growth by exploring new markets, launching new products, or implementing new strategies

• Build financial and investment valuation models to evaluate new and existing opportunities

• Conduct market and competitive analysis to anticipate and respond to emerging trends

• Identify new business development opportunities for innovation and growth

• Optimize product tiering and pricing, ensuring that the company's offerings are both attractive to customers and profitable

• Surface relevant data and insights to arm leadership with necessary information for decision-making (reporting, dashboarding)

This is an excellent career opportunity for you if you have:

• Masters degree in a relevant field

• International work experience highly desired along with multilingual skills (ie. Arabic)

• Work experience at a strategy consulting firm & experience at a technology company

• Experience in management consulting, investment banking, or an investing role

• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills

• Clear communication, high-ownership mentality and bias to action

• Work experience in a high-growth startup or previous knowledge/interest in the AI space is a strong plus

If some of the above doesn’t line up perfectly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply! If you want to work really hard on a glorious mission with teammates that want the same thing, Cohere is the place for you.

We value and celebrate diversity and strive to create an inclusive work environment for all. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities. Should you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please submit an Accommodations Request Form, and we will work together to meet your needs.

Full-Time Employees at Cohere enjoy these Perks:

🤝 An open and inclusive culture and work environment

🧑‍💻 Work closely with a team on the cutting edge of AI research

🍽 Weekly lunch stipend, in-office lunches & snacks

🦷 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, New York, San Francisco and London and co-working stipend

✈️ 6 weeks of vacation

Note: This post is co-authored by both Cohere humans and Cohere technology.