Technical Program Manager, AI Delivery

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the complete technical program delivery for public sector and defence clients in Germany and across Europe, starting from initial deployment to production scaling.

• Act as the main technical program liaison for customers, fostering trusted relationships with departmental CIOs, IT directors, and their technical teams.

• Convert public sector and defence needs into actionable engineering strategies.

• Navigate intricate procurement processes, including RFP responses and contractual technical obligations.

• Ensure clear, timely, and objective communication among engineering, customer, public sector, and defence stakeholders.

• Adapt AI/ML technical concepts into language suitable for government decision-makers.

• Deliver technical roadmaps and status updates to senior stakeholders and departmental executives.

• Represent Cohere’s technical capabilities in sensitive government and defence environments.

• Develop and oversee project schedules that consider government and defence timelines, security evaluations, and approval processes.

• Identify and manage dependencies across government departments, security authorities, cloud service providers, and internal teams.

• Navigate risks related to privacy, security, politics, regulations, technology, and infrastructure.

• Align product development priorities with customer needs.

• Ensure timely delivery of AI solutions that comply with security, privacy, accessibility, and performance standards.

• Coordinate technical efforts across model customization, security enhancement, government system integration, and bilingual support.

• Establish governance checkpoints for high-stakes government and defence deployments.

• Tackle complex technical challenges in air-gapped, on-premises, or highly regulated settings.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must be a German citizen residing in Germany.

• Fluent in German.

• Over 6 years of experience as a customer-facing Technical or Engineering Program Manager in AI/ML consulting, technology transformation, or enterprise software delivery.

• Exceptional executive communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Experience collaborating with government, defence, or heavily regulated clients.

• Proven track record in managing complex technical programs with multiple stakeholders and stringent compliance requirements.

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.

• Strong knowledge of enterprise software deployment architectures including cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and air-gapped solutions.

• Familiarity with modern AI concepts, such as LLMs, agentic systems, MCP, RAG, fine-tuning, evaluations, and responsible AI practices.

• Comfortable discussing API integrations, model inference, data pipelines, and ML operations with technical stakeholders.

• Deep understanding of government and defence technology procurement, evaluation, and deployment processes.

• Knowledge of European government regulations, including data sovereignty, privacy laws, accessibility standards, official language requirements, and security classifications.

• Awareness of defence and national security issues related to AI deployment.

• Eligible to obtain a German security clearance.

• An active German security clearance is desirable.

• Bilingual proficiency in English and German is a plus.

• Background or strong familiarity with European defence, intelligence, or critical infrastructure sectors is advantageous.

• Experience with GC Cloud services like Azure and AWS GovCloud or Protected B/C environments is a plus.

• Project management certification such as PMP or PgMP, or familiarity with government-specific methodologies, is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or its equivalent in your local currency for meals.

• Comprehensive health and dental coverage, including a separate budget for mental health support.

• RRSP matching, 401K, and Pension Scheme.

• 100% parental leave top-up for up to 6 months, applicable to either parent.

• Annual enrichment benefits for arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and workspace improvements.

• Education and learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching opportunities.

• 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days).

• Budget for travel to other offices for remote employees, along with an annual company offsite.

• Co-working benefits for employees located far from an office.

• $500 stipend for home office setup.

• For office-based employees: daily lunch program, snacks, and regular community and social events.