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Own the full sales cycle for state, local, and higher education customers across the SLED market. Responsibilities include territory planning, outbound business development, executive relationship building, consultative selling, partner management, proof-of-concept execution, procurement, and deal closure. The role requires collaboration with SDR, Marketing, Customer Success, Sales Engineering, Product, and Engineering teams to expand public-sector adoption of Cohere’s AI platform.

Lead sales operations to optimize revenue growth by defining strategy, streamlining processes, managing CRM and pipeline, delivering performance analytics, coordinating cross-functional GTM efforts, and mentoring teams while aligning sales execution with company objectives and stakeholders.

Lead strategic sourcing and procurement for professional services categories, including consulting, marketing, legal, communications, and other external services. Manage end-to-end procurement, RFPs, vendor negotiations, category strategies, contracts, supplier performance, compliance, savings initiatives, and purchase-to-pay processes. Collaborate with FP&A, Accounting, Legal, and business stakeholders while maintaining documentation, controls, and performance reporting.

Owns revenue enablement programs for North American field teams from design through rollout, measurement, and iteration. Partners with Product, Marketing, Sales Leadership, and RevOps to align go-to-market priorities. Develops playbooks, certifications, training, and competitive resources; operationalizes MEDDPICC; tracks enablement KPIs; improves content platforms and AI workflows; coaches sellers; and translates field insights into updated enablement materials.

Build and scale ML-optimized HPC infrastructure, manage Kubernetes-based GPU/TPU superclusters, optimize for AI/ML training, and mentor teams while innovating in ML infrastructure.

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.

The role involves managing Cohere's platform for developers and enterprises, overseeing APIs, SDKs, and tooling for improved integration and user experience.

Manage the full contract lifecycle and contract operations: triage requests, draft and maintain standard agreements and templates, manage document systems and approvals, monitor compliance and key dates, analyze contract data, and collaborate with Sales, Product, and Finance to streamline contract workflows and reporting.

Build and ship features for Cohere’s North AI workspace platform, develop autonomous agents that interact with sensitive enterprise data, and deploy highly performant, secure applications in low-resource environments. Collaborate with researchers to productionize advanced AI models and techniques while contributing across the full stack using Python and React.