Product Manager, Agent Harness & Modelling

The role

This person will own the execution layer for North agents to make them reliable and production-ready. They will manage the agent loop, context engineering, and the feedback loop between the harness and the Modeling team.

What you will do

• Define and own the roadmap for North's agent harness
• Serve as the primary interface between North engineering and Cohere's Modeling team
• Own North's agentic evaluation framework
• Engage enterprise customers to translate findings into product and model requirements
• Partner with the agentic expert modeling team to define goals and prioritize capabilities
• Stay current with the open-source and commercial agent ecosystem

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience as a research PM, in agentic AI systems, or applied ML products
• Deep understanding of agentic harnesses, including the latest paid and open source offerings
• Deep understanding of modern LLM agent architectures, including multi-agent systems, tool-augmented reasoning, memory and retrieval, programmatic orchestration, RAG, and long-horizon execution
• Strong grasp of agentic evaluation design
• Technically deep enough to contribute to architecture decisions at the implementation level
• Ability to flex between ML research conversations and engineering architecture discussions
• Track record of shipping platform-layer products

Nice to have

• Direct experience in developing and shipping leading agentic harnesses
• An active practitioner of agent frameworks
• Hands-on experience with enterprise agentic deployments
• Familiarity with infrastructure constraints relevant to enterprise deployments
• Prior work at the intersection of research and product
• Background working within or closely alongside an ML research or post-training team

Benefits

• Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent
• 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
• 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
• Budget for traveling to other offices if you are remote
• Annual company offsite
• Daily lunch program, snacks, and regular community and social events for those in office
• Co-working benefit for those not near an office
• $500 home office stipend

About the company

Cohere is a leading security-first enterprise AI company that builds foundation AI models and end-to-end products. They are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto.