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Program Manager - Field CTOs - US

Cognition · San Francisco · On-site

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About Cognition

Cognition operates Devin, the first autonomous software engineer. Devin plans, writes, tests, and ships production code inside your existing workflows. Backed by General Catalyst, Khosla and Pear VC.

About the role

Build executive engagement plans. Understand each leader’s priorities, expertise, existing relationships and capacity, then maintain a proactive plan for their participation. Partner with Sales on priorities. Build trust with sales leaders and account teams. Understand which senior relationships matter, the customer’s priorities and why a particular executive or program would be valuable. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Experience managing executive programs, executive briefings, customer advisory boards or similar programs in an enterprise environment
  • A demonstrated ability to partner with sales, understand account priorities and translate requests into well-defined executive engagements
  • Strong prioritization skills. You can distinguish an urgent request from a strategically important one, assess competing needs and explain your recommendations
  • Confidence asking sales leaders and account teams for context, challenging assumptions and pushing back constructively
  • Experience working with senior executives and their assistants, with sound judgment about how to use limited executive time
  • Clear, concise writing and experience preparing executive briefing materials
More about this role

We're the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer.

Our team is extremely talent-dense. Among our founding team, we have world-class competitive programmers, former founders, and leaders from companies at the cutting edge of AI including Scale AI, Palantir, Cursor, Waymo, Tesla, Lunchclub, Modal, Google DeepMind, and Nuro.

Building Devin is just the first step—our hardest challenges still lie ahead. If you’re excited to solve some of the world’s biggest problems and build AI that can reason on real-world tasks, apply to join us.

Cognition is the company behind Devin, the AI software engineer. We’re hiring an Executive Engagement Program Manager to coordinate how our executives, Field CTOs and Managing Directors participate in our global executive programs.

You’ll start with a plan for each leader: their expertise, priority audiences and relationships, key forums and available time. You’ll turn those plans into a coordinated calendar across summits, customer advisory boards, executive sponsorship, briefings, dinners and major industry gatherings.

A strong working partnership with Sales is essential. You’ll need to understand account priorities, ask the right questions about...

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