Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cohere is a company focused on scaling intelligence to serve humanity by training and deploying frontier models for AI systems. As a Senior Operations Manager, you will be responsible for advising leadership on security risks, executing the vision for the Security team, and ensuring the security of cloud infrastructure and data.
Responsibilities
- Serve as trusted advisor to team’s leadership and partner teams by clearly articulating business risks associated with security issues
- Execute the long-term vision for the Security team in alignment with Cohere’s product and business goals
- Collaborate closely with leadership to prioritize high-impact initiatives and strategic customer engagements
- Secure cloud infrastructure, platform, and data through architecture reviews, automation, and continuous monitoring to mitigate cloud-specific risks (Cloud Security)
- Own identify and access management across Cohere systems and data ensuring robust identity governance, authentication and authorization mechanisms to applications and infrastructure (IAM)
- Detect, analyze, and respond to security threats in real time while maintaining visibility across the enterprise
- Minimize business impact from security incidents through rapid containment, eradication, and recovery (D&R)
- Lead and grow a high-performing team of Security engineers through hiring, coaching, and mentorship
- Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous learning
- Establish and evolve team processes to maximize productivity and execution speed
Skills
- 8+ years of previous experience in Security Operations / Detection and Response Engineering with a strong focus on cloud security & identity and access management
- A deep understanding of various security domains such as network security, identity governance, infrastructure security, external attack surface management and are well versed with industry best practices across security domains
- Comfortable with ambiguity and able to make informed decisions with little data
- Employ a flexible and constructive approach when solving problems
- Able to make trade-offs between build vs. buy decisions—help build solutions and be able to review what tools are available
- Understand secure engineering best practices, can articulate problem statements, and propose solutions to both technically savvy and non-technical audiences
- A deep technical understanding of common security vulnerabilities and risks, as well as countermeasures and compensating controls
Benefits
- An open and inclusive culture and work environment
- Work closely with a team on the cutting edge of AI research
- Weekly lunch stipend, in-office lunches & snacks
- Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget to take care of your mental health
- 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months
- Personal enrichment benefits towards arts and culture, fitness and well-being, quality time, and workspace improvement
- Remote-flexible, offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco, London and Paris, as well as a co-working stipend
- 6 weeks of vacation (30 working days!)
Company Overview
Cohere develops enterprise artificial intelligence software and provides language models, retrieval tools, and workplace platforms. It was founded in 2019, and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, CAN, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://cohere.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Cohere has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 11 in 2025, 14 in 2024, 13 in 2023, 5 in 2022, 2 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.