Marketing Chief of Staff

Cohere is seeking a Marketing Chief of Staff to enhance the efficiency of its marketing organization. This role involves operational management, cross-functional collaboration, and strategic execution within a fast-paced B2B environment. 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 co-headquartered in Toronto and San Francisco, with key offices in London, New York City, Montreal, Seoul, Germany and Paris. Join us!

• •Run the marketing org's planning cadence: annual and quarterly planning, goal-setting, and the weekly and monthly business reviews. Hold the calendar.
• •Drive budget and headcount planning against the slate, working from Marketing Ops' tracking and reporting, and keep both honest as priorities shift mid-quarter. You own the trade-off conversations; Marketing Ops owns the numbers underneath them.
• •Make the reviews worth holding. Drive the prep, the follow-through, and the decisions that should come out of them.

• •Turn the VP of Brand's priorities into plans the team can execute, then hold the line on those priorities when new fires start.
• •Keep major programs from colliding or stalling across brand, editorial, design, product marketing, demand gen, and integrated marketing. A lot of this is seeing the crash coming and preventing it.
• •Be the person teams come to when it isn't clear who owns a decision.

• •Represent marketing in cross-functional planning with sales, product, and finance, so the org's commitments are realistic and its dependencies are visible. When marketing promises something to another team, you make sure the promise was sane and gets kept.
• •The systems plumbing behind that (lead routing, scoring, pipeline data) sits with Marketing Ops and RevOps. Your job is the planning and accountability layer on top of it. You'll also chase procurement and legal when purchases and projects stall.

• •Build the materials leadership relies on: board updates, all-hands content, exec readouts. Make them clear and honest, not decorative.
• •Give the VP of Brand back time and attention by carrying the work that doesn't need to land on their desk.

• •Lead the things that don't fit neatly on any one team's plate: a reorg, a new agency relationship, a flagship event, an org-wide planning week. Own them end to end.

• •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.

• •10+ years of operating experience, with real time inside a marketing org in a Chief of Staff, business operations, or senior program-operations seat.
• •A practitioner's understanding of demand generation and account-based marketing in a B2B context. You can talk pipeline, not just plans.
• •Comfort with marketing and pipeline metrics and with running a budget. You can build the model and read the dashboard.
• •A track record of bringing order to a fast, complex org without grinding it to a halt.
• •Clear writing, straight talk, and the presence to hold a room of senior people to a plan.