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# Program Manager - Field CTOs - EMEA at Cognition

- **Company:** [Cognition](https://feeny.ai/companies/cognition)
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-11-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cognition/6146f09d-285d-4538-be40-e1f3ffcdecd2

## Job description

We are an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents. We're the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer. Our team is extremely talent-dense. Among our founding team, we have world-class competitive programmers, former founders, and leaders from companies at the cutting edge of AI including Scale AI, Palantir, Cursor, Waymo, Tesla, Lunchclub, Modal, Google DeepMind, and Nuro. Building Devin is just the first step—our hardest challenges still lie ahead. If you’re excited to solve some of the world’s biggest problems and build AI that can reason on real-world tasks, apply to join us. Cognition is the company behind Devin, the AI software engineer. We’re hiring an Executive Engagement Program Manager to coordinate how our executives, Field CTOs and Managing Directors participate in our global executive programs. You’ll start with a plan for each leader: their expertise, priority audiences and relationships, key forums and available time. You’ll turn those plans into a coordinated calendar across summits, customer advisory boards, executive sponsorship, briefings, dinners and major industry gatherings. A strong working partnership with Sales is essential. You’ll need to understand account priorities, ask the right questions about requests and make sound recommendations about where executive involvement will be most valuable. You’ll balance those needs with our program goals and executive capacity, communicating tradeoffs clearly and pushing back constructively when needed. This role sits within Executive Engagement and works closely with program owners, executive assistants, regional marketing, Events and Communications. You’ll bring structure and continuity to the portfolio so our leaders spend their time thoughtfully and each customer interaction builds on the last.

## What you’ll do

- Build executive engagement plans. Understand each leader’s priorities, expertise, existing relationships and capacity, then maintain a proactive plan for their participation.
- Partner with Sales on priorities. Build trust with sales leaders and account teams. Understand which senior relationships matter, the customer’s priorities and why a particular executive or program would be valuable.
- Manage and prioritize requests. Establish a clear intake process that captures the audience, purpose, relationship context, timing and expected value of each request. Assess requests against agreed priorities, executive fit and capacity.
- Exercise judgment and communicate tradeoffs. Recommend what to accept, defer, redirect or decline. Offer alternatives where appropriate and route assignment decisions and escalations to the right owner.
- Coordinate the global calendar. Align executive hosts, audiences, preparation deadlines and commitments across programs. Identify conflicts and gaps early.
- Maintain continuity. Keep a shared record of participation, feedback and commitments. Ensure follow-up has a named owner and carries through between programs.
- Keep the team aligned. Run planning meetings, surface decisions and report on participation, capacity and program feedback.

## What you bring

- Experience managing executive programs, executive briefings, customer advisory boards or similar programs in an enterprise environment.
- A demonstrated ability to partner with sales, understand account priorities and translate requests into well-defined executive engagements.
- Strong prioritization skills. You can distinguish an urgent request from a strategically important one, assess competing needs and explain your recommendations.
- Confidence asking sales leaders and account teams for context, challenging assumptions and pushing back constructively.
- Experience working with senior executives and their assistants, with sound judgment about how to use limited executive time.
- Clear, concise writing and experience preparing executive briefing materials.
- Strong organizational skills, discretion and attention to detail.
- The ability to build practical processes and personally manage the details required to make them work.

Our Commitment Equal Opportunity. Cognition is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic under applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities throughout the hiring process - please let us know if you need any. Cognition also considers applicants with criminal histories consistent with the SF Fair Chance Ordinance and similar local laws. Data Privacy and Arbitration: By submitting your application, you agree to our [Global Applicant and Job Candidate Privacy Notice](https://cognition.com/documents/Cognition-Global-Applicant-and-Job-Candidate-Privacy-Notice.pdf). For US applicants, by submitting your application, you agree to the [Applicant Arbitration Agreement](https://cognition.com/documents/Cognition-Applicant-Arbitration-Agreement.pdf).

## About Cognition

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cognition is an applied AI lab that operates Devin, the first autonomous AI software engineer capable of planning, writing, testing, and shipping production code.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D – latest funding round closed ~June 2026)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (550 Third Street)
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed in available sources; the founding team includes multiple IOI gold medalists and builders from Google DeepMind, Scale AI, Cursor, and Waymo.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Artificial Intelligence / Software Engineering
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily large enterprises and government institutions (“some of the largest and most complex institutions in the world”)
- **Mission**: “To expand human capacity — not by replacing meaningful work but by working alongside people as an exponential collaborator, helping them think deeper and move faster.”

## Products & Services
- **[Devin](https://cognition.ai/)**: An autonomous AI software engineer that plans, writes, tests, and ships production code. It integrates with existing codebases and toolchains. Available as a cloud platform and via Devin Desktop. Deployed at major enterprises and government agencies.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $1.596B (implied by latest Series D round, ~June 2026) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/cognition-ai)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $1.596B (Series D) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/cognition-ai) *(Note: The company’s own website previously stated “over $400M” raised; CB Insights reports a higher total as of mid-2026.)*
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Founders Fund, Lux Capital, 8VC, Bain Capital Ventures, Avenir, Elad Gil, and 42+ others [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/cognition-ai)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Rapid global expansion with offices in San Francisco, New York, Austin, Washington D.C., London, Singapore, Tokyo, and more.
  - Launched “Cognition for Government” (Feb 2026) and an “AI Productivity Guarantee” (June 2026).
  - Named a Highflier in the AI 100 (2024) by CB Insights.
  - Active hiring across Sales, Customer Engineering, R&D, Marketing, and GTM roles in multiple regions.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in autonomous AI software engineering** – Devin is widely recognized as the first AI agent that can independently complete end-to-end software tasks.
- **Elite founding team** – 10 IOI gold medals; alumni from DeepMind, Scale AI, Cursor, Waymo, Nuro, etc. Of the initial 35 team members, 21 had previously founded a company.
- **Massive capital backing** – Over $1.5B raised enables aggressive R&D and go-to-market expansion.
- **Enterprise traction** – Deployed at “some of the largest and most complex institutions in the world,” including government agencies.

## Strategic Focus
- **Deepening autonomous reasoning** – Continuously improving Devin’s ability to handle complex, multi-step engineering tasks (e.g., FrontierCode benchmark).
- **Global scale** – Building out sales and deployment teams in APAC, Europe, LATAM, and the Middle East.
- **Government & regulated sectors** – Dedicated federal team and FedRAMP-oriented offerings (e.g., “Cognition for Government”).
- **Product ecosystem** – Expanding from cloud to desktop and offering productivity guarantees to reduce customer risk.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Talent-dense,” interdisciplinary, low-ego, and urgency-driven. The team works on “the hardest problems in AI” and values shipping real impact.
- **Work model**: Hybrid/office-first with major hubs in San Francisco, New York, Austin, London, Singapore, Tokyo, and others. Many roles list specific locations, suggesting in-office presence is expected.
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision insurance; unlimited PTO; meals in primary offices; wellness stipend; commuter benefits; 401(k); HSA/FSA; fertility and family building support.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong emphasis on applied AI, customer proximity (“we work alongside our customers”), and building infrastructure that redefines software engineering.

## Sources
1. [cognition.ai](https://cognition.ai/) – Company homepage and product overview
2. [cognition.ai/careers](https://cognition.ai/careers) – Careers page with benefits and open roles
3. [cognition.ai/about](https://cognition.ai/about) – About page with team background and principles
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/cognition-ai) – Funding, valuation, and competitor data

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