Business Operations Lead

Who are we?

Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems.

We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that.

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. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft.

We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us!

The Strategy & Business Operations 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 are looking for a BizOps Lead to join the team, reporting to the Head of BizOps, focused on strategy, corporate development, and cross-functional projects.

In this intermediate level individual contributor role, you may:

• Influence strategic decision-making by collaborating with and building consensus among leaders across the organization, including product, GTM, and research and engineering
• Optimize pricing and packaging, ensuring that the company's offerings are both attractive to customers and profitable
• Build financial models and analyses to evaluate new and existing opportunities
• Contribute to corporate development activities: fundraising, strategic partnerships, investor relations, M&A, etc.
• Conduct market and competitive analysis to anticipate and respond to emerging trends and to identify new opportunities for innovation and growth

This role is a good match if you:

• Have 3-4 years of top tier investment banking / investing experience, ideally with a focus on software, technology, or digital infrastructure
• OR Have 2-3 years of top tier consulting experience, ideally with a focus on software / technology; further experience in BizOps, product, or investing is also valued
• Have some technical background (e.g., CS, EE, Applied Math, or related undergraduate degree, software engineering internships)
• Are a clear communicator with a high-ownership mentality and bias to action
• Are a problem solver: can operate at a level 4-5 on this hierarchy