Job Overview
Location
Toronto
Job Type
Full-time
Category
HR & Recruiting
Date Posted
May 12, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • The Director, Total Rewards will build and scale the global total rewards program at Cohere, establishing a competitive compensation and benefits framework aligned with company values and growth objectives.
- • Day to day responsibilities include designing global compensation strategies, managing benefits packages, conducting market research, ensuring compliance, collaborating with stakeholders, communicating programs to employees, and using data to drive improvements.
- • Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more who are passionate about scaling intelligence to serve humanity through frontier AI models for developers and enterprises.
- • In this role, the person can learn to lead total rewards strategy at a fast-growing AI company, deepen expertise in global compensation and benefits, and shape equitable, scalable rewards programs that support a diverse, distributed workforce.
🎯 Requirements
- • 10+ years in a total rewards role with experience building and scaling functions at fast-growing tech companies
- • Experience designing and managing total rewards programs for a global, distributed workforce across multiple regions
- • Strong analytical skills, proficiency in HRIS systems, and familiarity with industry-leading compensation benchmarking tools
- • Deep understanding of compensation philosophies, benefits regulations, and best practices in the tech industry
- • Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business, or a related field; Master’s degree or relevant certifications preferred
Skills & Technologies
About Cohere Inc.
Cohere provides large language models and retrieval-augmented generation APIs for enterprise developers to embed conversational AI, search, summarization, and content generation into applications. Founded in 2021 by former Google Brain researchers, the company offers cloud and on-premise deployment, fine-tuning tools, and multilingual support to help organizations automate workflows, improve customer support, and analyze unstructured data while maintaining data privacy and security controls.
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