Senior Counsel, Cohere
Corporate Governance and Compliance
Natural language processing AI platform
Posted today
Natural language processing AI platform
501-1000 employees
Posted today
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build machines that understand the world, and to make them safely accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- Law degree from an accredited law school and member of the bar in the relevant jurisdiction
- Minimum of 7+ years of experience in corporate law, with a focus on governance and compliance
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex legal concepts for a non-legal audience, and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams and levels of the organization
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating legal risks
- Proven ability and experience managing compliance programs
- Proven ability and experience working effectively with business and technical teams, including go-to-market, customer support, information security, and product teams
- Experience navigating corporate governance matters for global expansion and export control compliance will be considered an asset
- Experience advising on and managing contracting and compliance programs in the public sector or highly regulated industries, such as finance, healthcare, or telecommunications will be considered an asset
What the job involves
- We are seeking a skilled Senior Counsel, Corporate Governance and Compliance with experience translating legal requirements into actionable compliance workflows to join our Legal team
- The successful candidate will advise the organization on corporate governance and compliance matters, and play a pivotal role in scaling Cohere’s compliance management processes
- Provide expert advice and counsel to the VP, Legal and executive team on corporate law and governance matters, including corporate structuring and global expansion
- Oversee the implementation of corporate governance practices to ensure they are followed consistently across the organization
- Monitor compliance with company codes of conduct, responsible for reporting commitments, governance policies and conduct regular reviews, ensuring that any violations are addressed promptly and effectively
- Prepare board meeting agendas, ensuring compliance with procedural requirements, and supporting the VP, Legal as required
- Advise and collaborate closely with the Public Sector and Government Affairs and Public Policy teams to implement and manage procurement processes and related corporate governance matters associated with complex contractual arrangements in the public sector and regulated industries
- Work collaboratively with customer support and sales teams to scale and automate customer compliance and security requests, including by developing and maintaining up-to-date compliance documentation reflecting Cohere’s practices
- Partner closely with information security to manage third-party audits and certification attainment (e.g. SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA)
- Work collaboratively with Cohere’s information security, product, engineering, and AI risk management teams to design and implement robust and cross-functional regulatory compliance strategies
- Advise and provide insights on emerging legal and regulatory trends to key teams, including the Public Sector and Government Affairs and Public Policy teams
Our take
The AI industry biggest stakeholders insist that the next step in enhancing web experiences will be through natural language interactions. While this may be true, only companies with considerable resources can reasonably address the gap needed to bring NLP to the forefront of web integration. Cohere was founded to address this shortfall between NLP development, widespread usage, and the resources required.
Cohere works on building top-of-the-class NLP processing models and software which it makes available to customers through APIs and custom solutions. In a strategic move, the company has partnered with Google Cloud, giving them access to resources that will undoubtedly push the field of NLP forward. This allows Cohere to serve as middlemen by offering a wide range of customers a product built on unmatched technology.
AI is currently a worldwide talking point and so it is no surprise that Cohere has seen rapid development, and raised $270M in a 2023 funding round. The company plans to introduce a dialogue model that would resemble ChatGPT, however, in this case, its technology would be mainly accessible to developers and businesses.
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Insights
192% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2024
$500m
SERIES D
Mar 2023
$270m
SERIES C
Total funding: $940m
Company benefits
- We cover 100% of premiums across health, dental, vision & travel
- We offer RRSP, 401K, and Pension Scheme contributions
- We offer lunch and fitness studio credits and a quality time fund which can be spent on things like dog walking and laundry services
- We want everyone who contributes to our success to get a ‘piece of the pie’
- Work Remote & PTO
- We know that some people work better at home, so we are remote-first, and sure that all meetings, events, and opportunities are set up for our distributed team
- Every employee at Cohere gets 6 weeks of paid time off & US and Canadian federal holidays, and we provide unlimited sick days
- All new parents (including those who adopt or go through a surrogate journey) are eligible to receive 100% salary for 6 months in Canada, the US, and the UK
- The decision and journey to having kids is different for each person and family. Part of our commitment to diversity is being able to support the widest variety of these scenarios as we can so we offer financial support for egg freezing and IVF for those in the US, Canada and the UK
- Every employee at Cohere receives an annual $2,000 education fund to use as they please
Company HQ
Grange Park, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Aidan Gomez
(CEO)Has a PhD in Computer Science from Oxford University. Previously worked as a Researcher at Google (Brain) and FOR.ai
Ivan Zhang
(CTO)Previous experience working in research and engineering at For.ai, Cortex labs, Pressly and Ranomics.
Nick Frosst
(CTO)Previously worked as a Research Engineer at Google (Brain).
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