Senior Manager, Global Public Affairs & Policy Narratives

Cohere Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Washington, DC

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• As Cohere rapidly scales its engagement with governments, regulators, and enterprise leaders globally, the need for cohesive, high-impact policy narratives has never been greater.
• We need a strategist who can translate the deepest technical realities of our AI models into compelling arguments, speeches, and events that inform and persuade policymakers.
• Sitting within the Government Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP) team, this role is the policy marketing engine for our global organization.
• You will operate at the intersection of technology, business strategy, and government relations.
• You will build the arguments, reports, visual assets, speeches, and high-impact policy events that proactively define the regulatory conversation around enterprise AI.
• You will navigate a highly fluid environment, partnering closely with our Communications, Marketing, and Go-To-Market teams while ensuring our underlying public affairs strategy is flawlessly executed and deeply rooted in technical reality.
• Deploy Policy Marketing & Speechwriting: Develop the core arguments, analyses, policy reports, and narratives that help inform regulators and support a pro-innovation policy environment.
• Execute Strategic Policy Events: Bring our policy narrative to life by conceptualizing, curating, and running high-impact policy events from start to finish.
• Translate Complex AI Technology: Serve as the crucial bridge between our technical teams and government stakeholders.
• Drive Executive Engagement & Content: Take ownership of drafting, refining, and polishing external materials.
• Partner with Communications: Act as the strategic anchor between the GAPP team and traditional PR.
• Anticipate & Mitigate Risk: Proactively assess how global AI policy proposals and regulatory frameworks impact our technology.

🎯 Requirements

• Strategic Public Affairs & Policy Marketing Experience: 7+ years of professional experience in public affairs, policy marketing, strategic communications, or government relations within a technology company or government agency.
• Speechwriting & Executive Content Expertise: A proven track record of writing compelling speeches, op-eds, policy papers, and executive presentations that synthesize complex technical and economic concepts for high-level audiences.
• Event & Convening Expertise: Hands-on experience designing and flawlessly executing policy-focused events, VIP briefings, and roundtables that drive measurable shifts in stakeholder perception.
• Deep Technical Fluency: A strong foundational understanding of enterprise AI, generative models, cloud infrastructure, and the current global regulatory environment (e.g., EU AI Act, global safety standards).
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: The ability to seamlessly partner with and influence colleagues across global affairs, legal, AI research, and sales teams.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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.

Skills & Technologies

Senior

Remote

$190k-280k

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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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