Senior HR Business Partner, Cohere
$130-240k
Enterprise-grade AI solutions for real-world business problems
Posted today
Enterprise-grade AI solutions for real-world business problems
501-1000 employees
Posted today
$130-240k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower businesses to scale innovation, boost productivity, and drive progress that reaches everyone.
Role
Who you are
- We’re likely to be a strong fit if you:
- Operate at senior scope — Director-equivalent BP experience, Head of People experience at a smaller company, or similar IC7+ scope
- Know technical environments — experience partnering with Sales, Marketing or similar organizations
- Understand hypergrowth — experience operating in startup, scale-up, or rapidly scaling environments
- Have global exposure — supported distributed organizations across multiple countries or regions
- Communicate exceptionally well — especially in written, asynchronous environments
- Build trust effectively — influence through credibility, judgment, and strong relationships over time
- You’ll thrive here if you:
- Operate with ownership — strong judgment, accountability, and low ego
- Balance standards + empathy — supportive while maintaining high expectations
- Enjoy ambiguity — energized by fast-moving, evolving environments
- Love solving problems — especially complex organizational and leadership challenges
- Move fluidly — between strategy and hands-on execution
- Influence effectively — through strong communication and credibility
- Enjoy developing others — including mentoring and coaching PBPs
- If some of the above doesn’t line up perfectly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply!
What the job involves
- We’re hiring a Senior People Business Partner to help scale Cohere through a major phase of growth
- This is a strategic People leadership role partnering closely with our GTM organization and senior leaders inside one of the world’s leading AI companies
- At Cohere, Senior PBPs operate as trusted advisors to leadership teams and influential partners to the broader People organization
- You’ll support leaders across organizational design, leadership effectiveness, talent strategy, succession planning, and organizational health in a fast-scaling, globally distributed environment
- We’re still evolving parts of our People infrastructure and operating model, so this is a strong fit for someone energized by ambiguity, building, and improving ways of working in real time
- Areas you’ll typically support:
- Org design — scaling teams and organizational structures
- Leadership coaching — supporting senior technical leaders
- Talent strategy — performance, retention, and succession planning
- Team effectiveness — organizational health and leadership capability
- Employee experience — onboarding, retention, and engagement
- People team scale — helping evolve the broader People function
Our take
Many businesses are now faced with the challenge of adopting advanced AI safely and securely. While AI tools like ChatGPT are making headlines, companies (especially those in regulated industries such as banking, telecoms, or government services) worry about privacy, compliance, and control over their sensitive data. Cohere addresses these concerns by offering AI solutions that can be trained on a company's internal data and, importantly, run on their own infrastructure rather than relying on external cloud providers. And in a world where data breaches and regulatory scrutiny are constant threats, this focus on trust and security is key.
In a competitive landscape dominated by giants like OpenAI, Google, and Elon Musk's xAI, Cohere is setting itself apart by targeting businesses exclusively. Its approach has earned it contracts with some big names, like Royal Bank of Canada, Fujitsu, LG, Oracle, and Dell. By focusing on reliability and enterprise adoption rather than viral consumer appeal, Cohere has carved out a strong niche for itself.
This isn't going unnoticed either, as the company recently raised $500M, boosting its valuation to $6.8B, and brought on board top talent from Meta and Uber to strengthen its leadership team. Alongside this, it's doubled its annual recurring revenue to $100M in 2025 and is aiming to hit $200M by year-end. With its North platform for AI agents and a lean cost structure compared with larger rivals, Cohere is very much ready for more growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
192% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Apr 2026
$600m
SERIES E
Sep 2025
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $2.1bn
Company benefits
- Six weeks’ paid vacation
- Equity / stock options
- RRSP, 401(k), and Pension Scheme contributions
- Coverage for 100% of your insurance premiums across health, dental, vision, and travel
- Additional coverage for accessing mental health providers/services
- Six months of fully paid parental leave, including adoption and surrogacy
- Financial support for egg freezing and IVF in Canada and the UK
- A monthly fitness and wellness allowance
- Globally dispersed company that supports a remote work culture
- A $2,000 annual education benefit for professional development
- A weekly stipend for meals when working remotely and catered lunch when working from one of our global offices
- A monthly arts and culture allowance
- A monthly quality time allowance
Company HQ
Grange Park, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Aidan Gomez
(Co-Founder & CEO)Aidan received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Oxford in 2024 and has served as Cohere's CEO since co-founding the company in 2019.
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