Marketing Chief of Staff

Overview

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.

What you'll do

• You'll report to the VP of Brand and work across the whole function: brand, editorial, design, product marketing, demand generation, and integrated marketing.
• This is not a strategy-only role, and it isn't a glorified project-management seat either.
• In any given quarter the org is shipping product launches, field events, partner campaigns, and demand programs in parallel, often across regions and time zones.
• That pace is the reason the role exists.
• Your job is to make sure the right work wins when everything feels urgent, that plans turn into shipped work, and that the VP of Brand and the leadership team spend their time leading instead of firefighting.
• Be clear-eyed about the shape of the work.
• A lot of it is operational: the planning calendar, the budget, the headcount plan, the weekly business reviews, the cross-functional handoffs that break when nobody owns them.
• You should want that part, not tolerate it.

Requirements

• You know the specific failure mode of a team that's shipping a lot and losing the thread, and you know how to pull it back without slowing everyone down.
• You understand how marketing actually works, at the level of someone who's done it rather than managed it from a distance.
• You can talk credibly about how a campaign turns into pipeline, what account-based marketing demands from both sales and marketing before it works, and where demand-gen motions usually break.
• You don't have to have run every program yourself.
• You do have to understand them well enough that the people who run them respect your judgment.
• You're fluent in the numbers.
• Pipeline math, funnel conversion, budget-to-impact.
• You can read a marketing dashboard and tell what's real from what's been dressed up, and you say so.

Skills