# Technical Program Manager, Product Engineering

**Company:** [Cohere](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cohere)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** AI/ML, Linear, GitHub, Okrs, Release Management, Cross-Functional Coordination, Roadmapping, Technical Dependencies
**Posted:** 2026-05-14

> Leads program architecture for AI platform releases, managing release trains, dependencies, risks, and cross-team execution for multiple product teams. Requires 4+ years TPM experience in high-growth environments with AI/ML fluency and strong stakeholder influence.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Own end-to-end release coordination for North, including managing release trains, defining cadences, and ensuring smooth execution across engineering and product teams
- Drive cherry pick and hotfix approval workflows, triaging urgency, aligning stakeholders, and shepherding changes through to deployment with appropriate guardrails
- Author and manage customer-facing release communications, translating technical changes into clear, accurate updates for enterprise customers and internal stakeholders
- Establish and scale release processes that allow North's teams to ship faster and with greater confidence as our platform grows
- Map cross-team dependencies and risks across the release pipeline, surfacing blockers early and coordinating resolution across engineering, product, and customer success
- Partner directly with North Leadership and Members of Technical Staff on efforts to improve release quality, velocity, and operational rigor
- Manage project tracking tools (**Linear**, **GitHub** workflows) and facilitate release planning sessions across cross-functional teams
- Respond quickly to program-level changes: clarifying scope, adjusting timelines, and marshalling the right resources when customer or market priorities shift

## Requirements

- 4+ years as an Engineering or Technical Program Manager, with at least some of that time spent at a startup or high-growth company where you built programs rather than inherited them
- Demonstrated experience running multiple simultaneous workstreams. You can hold a complex picture in your head, spot cascading risks early, and keep several parallel programs moving without losing the thread
- Strong executive communication: you know how to distil messy, multi-team status into crisp, decision-ready updates for senior leadership, and you know when to escalate versus resolve
- Fluency with **AI/ML** product development
- A builder's instinct: comfortable in ambiguous, low-structure environments where you're creating the process, not following it, and pragmatic enough to ship something imperfect rather than wait for perfect
- Cross-functional influence without authority: you've worked in roles where you had to align Finance, GTM, and engineering leads who all had different priorities, and you know how to move people without a mandate
- Experience working with or alongside technical leads: you can have a credible conversation about technical dependencies and constraints without needing things translated

## Nice-to-Haves

- Building **OKR** or roadmapping systems from scratch in a scaling org
- Prior work inside an **AI** or **LLM** product company

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