Special Projects and Development Lead, Cohere
Natural language processing AI platform
Open for applications
Natural language processing AI platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build machines that understand the world, and to make them safely accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- If you thrive in fast-paced environments, are passionate about making an impact in your work, are deeply curious and eager to learn, and are a high performer this role is for you
- 5-8 years of work experience
- Experience in management consulting and at a fast growing startup is preferred
- A proven capacity to thrive in ambiguous environments, with a willingness to roll up your sleeves and get things done
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, as you will be engaging directly with executive leadership and external stakeholders while working closely with the CEO and Chief of Staff
- The skillset and desire to operate at a Level 4 and 5, as described in this post
- A natural excitement for problems without an obvious or immediate solution
- Ability to produce extremely high quality and accurate work outputs
What the job involves
- The Special Projects and Development Lead role is a unique opportunity to work directly with the CEO and Chief of Staff/Head of Development at Cohere and to drive high-impact initiatives that shape the company’s future
- It is the rare role that truly sits at the intersection of strategy and execution and will provide for a high degree of independence and autonomy
- You’ll work on complex and ambiguous problems critical to the company and no two months will look the same
- Lead and execute special projects prioritized by the CEO and Chief of Staff/Head of Development
- This will include setting the scope, conducting research, engaging with internal and external stakeholders, and problem solving directly with the CEO
- When the CEO has a question of “should we consider X?”, you will be the go to person to answer that question
- Work on hard problems – and find creative ways to solve them
- Collaborate closely with the Chief of Staff/Head of Development on strategic partnerships, investor relations, and financing
- Get smart on new topics quickly – this role will touch a wide range of domains. You won’t be an expert on all of them at the outset, but you will quickly get deep as projects pop up
- Work across functions and domains and with a cross-functional set of colleagues, informed by the highest-impact projects at any given point in time
- Roll up your sleeves. This role will be a platform for answering some of the most interesting/important questions for Cohere. At the same time, you will be a do-er, responsible for finding a way to get the job done
- Be part of a team – providing and receiving help/support to and from others. The Office of the CEO is a small and tight knit team
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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