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# Business Operations Lead at Cohere

- **Company:** [Cohere](https://feeny.ai/companies/cohere)
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-09-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-23
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cohere/a3a69960-3c85-4b11-b9b7-d4056d406c2e

## Job description

Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! The Strategy & Business Operations 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 are looking for a BizOps Lead to join the team, reporting to the Head of BizOps, focused on strategy, corporate development, and cross-functional projects.

In this intermediate level individual contributor role, you may:

- Influence strategic decision-making by collaborating with and building consensus among leaders across the organization, including product, GTM, and research and engineering
- Optimize pricing and packaging, ensuring that the company's offerings are both attractive to customers and profitable
- Build financial models and analyses to evaluate new and existing opportunities
- Contribute to corporate development activities: fundraising, strategic partnerships, investor relations, M&A, etc.
- Conduct market and competitive analysis to anticipate and respond to emerging trends and to identify new opportunities for innovation and growth

This role is a good match if you:

- Have 3-4 years of top tier investment banking / investing experience, ideally with a focus on software, technology, or digital infrastructure
- OR Have 2-3 years of top tier consulting experience, ideally with a focus on software / technology; further experience in BizOps, product, or investing is also valued
- Have some technical background (e.g., CS, EE, Applied Math, or related undergraduate degree, software engineering internships)
- Are a clear communicator with a high-ownership mentality and bias to action
- Are a problem solver: can operate at a level 4-5 on this [hierarchy](https://medium.com/helpful-com/how-to-be-an-effective-early-stage-employee-hint-be-helpful-e681b456a01f)

Full-Time Employees at Cohere enjoy these Perks:

- A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in your local currency for lunch.
- Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health.
- RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme.
- 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent.
- Annual enrichment benefits: Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and a workspace improvement credit. Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching.
- 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days!)
- Budget for traveling to other offices if you are remote, plus an annual company offsite.

How and Where We Work:

- Cohere is remote-friendly, but we also have offices in Toronto, London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul with more opening soon.
- For those in the office: a daily lunch program, plenty of snacks, and regular community and social events.
- For those not near an office: a co-working benefit so you can work alongside others in your city.
- Everyone receives a $500 home office stipend to set up your workspace properly.

If any of the above doesn’t line up exactly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply.

We strive to create an inclusive work environment for all; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities. Should you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please submit an[Accommodations Request Form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12a6IrLdF3kI2nonKSr4tiFuz18rLQbaeYV-JM9L4o9Q/edit), and we will work together to meet your needs.

We may use AI-enabled tools to screen and assess applicants against the criteria for this position. This helps our recruiters identify potentially qualified candidates, but it doesn't limit the applications our recruiters may review or consider.

Beware of Scams: Cohere will never ask for payment or third-party services (e.g., CV writing) as part of our hiring process. All legitimate roles are listed on the Cohere careers page and LinkedIn only, with all communications from Cohere employees coming from an @cohere.com or @cw.cohere email alias. If jobs are viewed on other sites then please verify these through our [official careers](https://cohere.com/careers) page.

## About Cohere

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cohere builds enterprise-grade AI foundation models and secure, customizable AI solutions that allow businesses to deploy generative, retrieval, and speech capabilities on their own infrastructure.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D, raised ~$1B as of 2024)
- **Headquarters**: Toronto, Canada (with offices in New York, London, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Seoul)
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Aidan Gomez (CEO), Nick Frosst, Ivan Zhang

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Enterprise AI / Artificial Intelligence
- Target customers: B2B, primarily large enterprises and public sector organizations across finance, healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications, energy, and government
- Mission statement: “Do whatever it takes to scale intelligence to serve humanity” – AI’s highest purpose is to enhance human wellbeing by empowering businesses to scale innovation, boost productivity, and drive progress.

## Products & Services
- **Command**: High-performance generative model with agentic capabilities, reasoning, tool orchestration, and multimodal intelligence – supports 49 languages.
- **Rerank**: Relevance-based search optimization that personalizes and refines results based on user needs.
- **Embed**: Semantic text representation for accurate document comparison and fast, scalable retrieval.
- **Transcribe**: High-fidelity speech-to-text engine supporting 14 languages, robust to real-world conversational environments.
- **North**: Turnkey AI workplace platform launched in 2025, offering agentic capabilities and advanced retrieval to automate tasks and surface insights securely grounded in enterprise data.
- **Cohere Labs**: Open science initiative with 4,500+ community members and 100+ published research papers.

## Competitive Advantages
- Full data sovereignty and security: Models can be deployed in a virtual private cloud (VPC), on-premises, or in a dedicated Cohere-managed Model Vault.
- Highly customizable: Clients can train on proprietary data and build unique AI solutions for specific use cases, infrastructure, and languages.
- Multi-layered protection with industry-certified security standards.
- Strong open science foundation (Cohere Labs) and research output (100+ papers).

## Strategic Focus
- Agentic AI for enterprise: Unified reasoning, tool orchestration, and multimodal intelligence in a single model.
- Sovereign AI workplace: Ensuring enterprises maintain control over their data and infrastructure.
- Expanding the North platform as a turnkey productivity solution.
- Global expansion with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Flexible, collaborative, and built on trust.” Values of Autonomy, Openness, and Momentum.
- **Remote/hybrid**: Globally dispersed company that supports remote work; employees can work from anywhere. Offices in seven cities with catered lunches, snacks, and social events. Teams have budgets for offsite gatherings.
- **Benefits**:
  - Six weeks’ paid vacation
  - Equity/stock options (all co-owners)
  - Retirement benefits
  - Six months fully paid parental leave (including adoption/surrogacy)
  - Medical, health insurance, vision, travel coverage (varies by location)
  - Mental health provider access
  - Fertility/family planning financial support
  - Monthly fitness/wellness allowance
  - $2,000 annual education benefit for conferences/courses
  - Annual arts & culture allowance
  - Monthly quality time allowance
  - One-time workplace improvement stipend for home office
  - Monthly co-working benefit for remote employees
  - Weekly meal stipend for remote workers
- **Interview process**: Clear and collaborative – application review, recruiter conversation, take-home assignment, hiring manager, final team rounds. Video conference-friendly.

## Sources
1. [cohere.com](https://cohere.com/) – Product overview, security, and industry solutions
2. [cohere.com/about](https://cohere.com/about) – Company history, founders, mission, funding, team
3. [cohere.com/careers](https://cohere.com/careers) – Benefits, culture, FAQs, remote policy
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/cohere](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cohere) – Current job openings and internships
5. [linkedin.com/company/cohere-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cohere-ai) – Company page, acquisitions, revenue reference

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- [Revenue Enablement Program Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/revenue-enablement-program-manager-cohere-united-states-fam2n0x0fahg) — United States
- [Revenue Enablement Program Manager - EMEA](https://feeny.ai/job/revenue-enablement-program-manager-emea-cohere-europe-p17kt7sc7za8) — Europe
- [Executive Producer, Executive Communications](https://feeny.ai/job/executive-producer-executive-communications-cohere-san-francisco-k1842behfy35) — San Francisco, CA
- [IT Support Specialist](https://feeny.ai/job/it-support-specialist-cohere-toronto-wk41y9an5an2) — Toronto, Canada
- [IT Support Specialist](https://feeny.ai/job/it-support-specialist-cohere-south-korea-a8brshj42nxx) — South Korea
- [Software Engineer, Security](https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-security-cohere-toronto-jjv2nsd04phj) — Toronto, Canada
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