Strategy and Business Operations Associate, Cohere
Natural language processing AI platform
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Natural language processing AI platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build machines that understand the world, and to make them safely accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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)
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
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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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