Technical Program Manager, AI Delivery for Public Sector & Defense, Germany

Responsibilities

• Customer Program Leadership
• Own end-to-end technical program delivery for Germany and broader European public sector and defence customers, from initial deployment through production scaling
• Serve as the primary technical program point of contact for customers, building trusted relationships with departmental CIOs, IT directors, and technical teams
• Translate complex public sector and defence requirements (security, compliance, accessibility, bilingualism, data sovereignty) into actionable engineering plans
• Navigate complex procurement processes, RFP responses, and contractual technical obligations.
• Strategic Communication
• Provide clear, timely, and objective communication across Cohere's engineering organisation, customer stakeholders, pubic sector and defence leadership
• Translate between AI/ML technical concepts and government-appropriate language for decision-makers who may not have deep technical backgrounds
• Present technical roadmaps and status updates to senior stakeholders including departmental executives
• Represent Cohere's technical capabilities in sensitive government and defence contexts.

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