Business Operations Lead

Cohere Cohere · AI Frontier · New York, NY · Business Operations

Cohere is seeking a Business Operations Lead to join their Strategy & Business Operations team. This role will focus on strategy, corporate development, and cross-functional projects, supporting C-level decision-making and driving functional priorities. Responsibilities include optimizing pricing and packaging, building financial models, contributing to fundraising and partnerships, and conducting market analysis. The ideal candidate has 3-4 years of investment banking/investing experience or 2-3 years of consulting experience, with a technical background and strong communication and problem-solving skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. Influence strategic decision-making by collaborating with and building consensus among leaders across the organization, including product, GTM, and research and engineering
  2. Optimize pricing and packaging, ensuring that the company's offerings are both attractive to customers and profitable
  3. Build financial models and analyses to evaluate new and existing opportunities
  4. Contribute to corporate development activities: fundraising, strategic partnerships, investor relations, M&A, etc.
  5. Conduct market and competitive analysis to anticipate and respond to emerging trends and to identify new opportunities for innovation and growth

Skills

Required

  • 3-4 years of top tier investment banking / investing experience, ideally with a focus on software, technology, or digital infrastructure
  • 2-3 years of top tier consulting experience, ideally with a focus on software / technology
  • Some technical background (e.g., CS, EE, Applied Math, or related undergraduate degree, software engineering internships)
  • Clear communicator with a high-ownership mentality and bias to action
  • Problem solver

Nice to have

  • Further experience in BizOps, product, or investing is also valued