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Lead Cohere's policy engagement on compute infrastructure, export controls, sovereign AI, and national AI competitiveness. Monitor and analyze relevant developments, develop policy positions, engage governments and cross-functional teams, represent Cohere in public discussions, and produce policy analysis and thought leadership to inform strategic business opportunities and public-private partnerships.

Lead Cohere’s corporate development strategy across M&A, strategic partnerships, market expansion, and government relationships. Evaluate acquisitions and investments, lead due diligence and post-merger integration, develop market-entry and partnership frameworks, negotiate complex alliances, and create joint go-to-market strategies. The role partners closely with product, engineering, legal, finance, sales, marketing, policy, and government relations teams to support sovereign AI deployments, regulatory compliance, revenue growth, and international expansion.

Own the full sales cycle for State, Local, and Higher Education (SLED) customers in the Western US. Drive net-new acquisition via outbound outreach, partner/channel engagement, and executive relationships. Collaborate with SDRs, Sales Engineering, Product, and Customer Success to deliver proofs-of-concept, navigate procurement, and close deals while shaping product priorities with customer feedback.

Build and maintain integrations for North's agentic platform, own the end-to-end integration pipeline, create evals and tests to ensure reliability, tune tool descriptions, and help other engineers add and maintain integrations while using AI responsibly to improve performance and quality.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will build and ship features for an AI workspace platform, develop autonomous agents, and manage end-to-end deployments, collaborating closely with clients in various sectors.

Lead and mentor a team of Forward Deployed Engineers to deploy Cohere's North platform into private cloud and on-premises environments. Own technical delivery and customer success, collaborate with Product/Engineering/Sales, optimize K8s services (OpenSearch, databases), define GPU/CPU scaling, and build scalable processes and tooling.