Product Manager (Safety & Security)

Join Cohere as a Product Manager (Safety & Security) and play a crucial role in bridging AI safety research and product delivery. This unique position requires a strong understanding of model behavior research and the ability to translate insights into concrete safety features and guardrails. You will own the safety product roadmap, partner with modeling teams, define evaluation frameworks, coordinate the development of guardrails, monitor the AI safety research landscape, and build processes for scaling safety review. This role offers a range of benefits, including six weeks of paid vacation, equity options, and comprehensive health coverage.

• Serve as the product bridge between Cohere's safety research teams and North, ensuring that findings from model evaluations, red-teaming, and behavioral research translate into product-level guardrails, controls, and safeguards.
• Own the safety product roadmap for Cohere and North, prioritizing features based on research findings, observed misuse patterns, evolving threat vectors, and customer requirements.
• Coordinate the development of guardrails and intervention mechanisms — working across research, engineering, and policy to determine where and how safety controls should be implemented within North's product layer.
• Strong written communicator who can translate complex model behavior findings for non-technical audiences and knows when something needs to be escalated urgently
• Technical depth sufficient to engage credibly with safety researchers: you don't need to run evals yourself, but you need to understand what they mean and ask the right questions
• Genuine interest in AI safety and model behavior, including the real-world implications of deploying LLMs in enterprise contexts
• Able to work across researchers, engineers, and product teams and keep everyone aligned without flattening the nuance of what the research is actually saying
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity — safety research surfaces unexpected findings, and this role requires good judgment about what to act on and how fast
• 5+ years of product management or research operations experience, with meaningful time working alongside research or ML teams at a technology or AI company
• Experience building zero-to-one processes in research or safety contexts
• Background in trust and safety, content policy, or a research-adjacent operational role at a technology company
• Prior exposure to agentic AI systems and the unique safety challenges introduced by tool use, multi-step reasoning, and autonomous execution
• Familiarity with AI-specific threat vectors: prompt injection, jailbreaks, RAG poisoning, or misuse patterns in agentic systems
• Hands-on experience with LLM evaluation, red-teaming, safety benchmarking, or behavioral research
• If any of the above doesn’t line up exactly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply