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Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! About the Role We are seeking a proactive, customer-focused IT Support Specialist based in Toronto to anchor our regional IT operations. In this role, you will be the primary point of contact for internal employees, delivering white-glove technical support while managing core identity, collaboration platforms, and SaaS systems. Beyond day-to-day helpdesk operations, this position bridges traditional IT support and modern systems engineering. You will leverage automation, scripting, and modern DevOps practices to streamline user lifecycles, eliminate manual toil, and ensure our workforce operates securely and efficiently. Key Responsibilities Serve as the first point of contact for internal employees, triaging incoming requests through the ticketing system and established support processes. Troubleshoot and resolve workstation, laptop, mobile, and basic network issues for on-site staff and remote employees, escalating more complex support cases to senior staff or the appropriate team. Deliver calm, clear support during high-priority incidents, keep users informed, and document work thoroughly through to resolution. Manage end-to-

About Backblaze Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands. Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $125m in revenue and is the leading specialized storage cloud, managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals. But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. We are seeking a Sr Desktop Support Analyst to join our team! What You’ll Do: Desktop & End-User Support Provide Tier 2/Tier 3 technical support for employees across macOS and Windows environments. Diagnose and resolve complex hardware, operating system, application, network connectivity, authentication, and peripheral issues. Serve as an escalation point for difficult or high-impact support incidents. Support employees through the complete technology lifecycle, including onboarding, role changes, hardware replacements, and offboarding. Configure, deploy, troubleshoot, and maintain laptops, desktops, mobile devices, peripherals, and related workplace technology. Provide remote support to employees across geographically distributed locations. Maintain a high level of professionalism and customer service while communicating technical information to both technical and non-technical users. Endpoint Management Administer and support Jamf for macOS device management, including enrollment, policies, profiles, software deployment, patching,

About the Team At OpenAI, our Trust, Safety & Risk Operations teams safeguard our products, users, and the company from abuse, fraud, scams, regulatory non-compliance, and other emerging risks. We operate at the intersection of operations, compliance, user trust, and safety working closely with Legal, Policy, Engineering, Product, Go-To-Market, and external partners to ensure our platforms are safe, compliant, and trusted by a diverse, global user base. The Global Safety Response Operations team within the org provides 24/7 coverage for user safety, risk, and regulatory escalations across OpenAI’s products, handling the highest-priority cases that require human judgment and rapid response. The team operates as the core escalations management and delivery arm of OpenAI’s safety operations, ensuring that our products remain safe and aligned with our policies while enabling timely, empathetic, and consistent user support. About the Role We’re looking for experienced Trust, Safety, and Risk Operations analysts who have subject matter expertise in one or more of the following areas: policy enforcement and content moderation, fraud and scam prevention, developer risk, or privacy and regulatory escalations. You’ll be on the front lines of safety escalation management, helping to triage and resolve urgent and sensitive cases. You’ll work across subject matter areas, systems, and processes to ensure operational excellence, develop process improvements and automations, and surface insights and trends. This role is part of a 24/7 global operation team and will be expected to work a standard 5x8 work week, which includes covering the weekend shift each week (e.g., work weeks covering Saturday - Wednesday) We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the Singapore office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. Please note: This role may involve exposure to sensitive content, including material that is sexual, violent, or otherwise disturbing. In This Role, You

About the Team At OpenAI, our Trust, Safety & Risk Operations teams safeguard our products, users, and the company from abuse, fraud, scams, regulatory non-compliance, and other emerging risks. We operate at the intersection of operations, compliance, user trust, and safety working closely with Legal, Policy, Engineering, Product, Go-To-Market, and external partners to ensure our platforms are safe, compliant, and trusted by a diverse, global user base. The Global Safety Response Operations team within the org provides 24/7 coverage for user safety, risk, and regulatory escalations across OpenAI’s products, handling the highest-priority cases that require human judgment and rapid response. The team operates as the core escalations management and delivery arm of OpenAI’s safety operations, ensuring that our products remain safe and aligned with our policies while enabling timely, empathetic, and consistent user support. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. Please note: This role may involve exposure to sensitive content, including material that is sexual, violent, or otherwise disturbing. About the Role We’re looking for experienced Trust, Safety, and Risk Operations analysts who have subject matter expertise in one or more of the following areas: policy enforcement and content moderation, fraud and scam prevention, developer risk, or privacy and regulatory escalations. You’ll be on the front lines of safety escalation management, helping to triage and resolve urgent and sensitive cases. You’ll work across subject matter areas, systems, and processes to ensure operational excellence, develop process improvements and automations, and surface insights and trends. This is a 24/7 global operation that requires flexibility to work rotating shifts, including nights, weekends, and holidays, as part of an on-call coverage model. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer r

About the Team Critical Harm Operations sits within User Safety & Risk Operations and builds enforcement systems for the most severe user-safety risks—including Frontier Risk and Material Harm—that are accurate, fast, defensible, and scalable. The Cyber vertical turns policy into reviewer standards, calibrated judgment, quality systems, escalation paths, and safe automation. About the Role We’re looking for a senior cybersecurity and cyber intelligence practitioner who is also an operations leader, strategist, and people manager. You’ll bring sound cyber judgment, strong analytical and automation instincts, and the ability to stay close to the work while setting direction, managing and developing people, aligning partners, building programs from 0→1, and translating ambiguity into durable operating systems. This role combines senior individual-contributor depth with direct people-management accountability. You’ll personally shape complex cyber judgments, operating models, SOPs, quality systems, and automation strategies while building, coaching, and holding accountable a high-performing team. You’ll also lead through influence across FTEs, BPO partners, and cross-functional teams. Baseline operational health—including quality, queue coverage, productivity, and SLA adherence—is table stakes; success is additionally measured by durable improvements to decision quality, stakeholder alignment, reviewer capability, and the systems that run the operation. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Set the strategic direction for Cyber Operations and translate high-level organizational priorities into a clear operating model, roadmaps, SOPs, escalation paths, quality goals, and safe-access strategies. Serve as the senior cybersecurity and cyber intelligence expert for complex and high-risk decisions across ChatGPT, API, Codex, agents, and

About the Team Critical Harm Operations sits within User Safety & Risk Operations and builds enforcement systems for Frontier Risk and Material Harm that are accurate, fast, defensible, and built to scale. We turn policy intent into operational readiness, review standards, quality systems, escalation paths, automation guardrails, and durable cross-functional operating models. About the Role We are looking for an exceptional Program Manager to help build durable operating systems and run some of OpenAI’s most complex safety operations. The core need is a high-agency operator who can take an ambiguous problem, create the right structure, align cross-functional partners, and drive the work through execution. This role will move across Critical Harm priorities as needs evolve. You may step into operationalizing national security or violent-activities workflows, support wellbeing and Frontier Risk initiatives, or help scale programs such as Trusted Access. Deep domain expertise is helpful but not required; the strongest candidates will learn quickly, exercise excellent judgment, and make complex programs move. In this role, you will: Lead strategic operational builds across priority workflows from problem statement to implemented operating model, including scope, owners, milestones, risks, success measures, and execution cadence. Translate policy, safety, technical, legal, and operational constraints into workflows, requirements, playbooks, escalation paths, and decision-making structures that teams can execute. Coordinate with User Ops leadership, Product Policy, Integrity, Safety Systems, i2, Legal, Product, Engineering, Support, vendors, and other partners to resolve dependencies and keep critical work moving. Move in and out of workflows as priorities shift—standing up new programs, stabilizing operations, improving handoffs, and transitioning durable ownership to the right team. Use operational data and frontline signals to identify bottlenecks, quality gaps, ca

ABOUT THE TEAM Critical Harm Operations sits within User Safety & Risk Operations and builds enforcement systems for Frontier Risk and Material Harm that are accurate, fast, defensible, and built to scale. The Cyber vertical turns policy into reviewer standards, calibrated judgment, quality systems, escalation paths, and automation guardrails. ABOUT THE ROLE We are looking for a senior cybersecurity practitioner and operations strategist to raise the quality, scalability, and technical rigor of our Cyber Operations. You will combine hands-on cyber judgment with systems-level operating design: resolve the hardest dual-use questions, evolve SOPs, uplift reviewers and vendors, and build practical tools and automations. This is a senior IC role. Success is not primarily cases closed; it is durable improvement in the operating model and the reviewers who run it. IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL: Drive the Cyber Operations operating model across domain priorities, SOPs, escalation paths, quality health, vendor capability, roadmap inputs and help inform trusted access strategies. Serve as the senior cyber expert for complex or high-risk decisions across ChatGPT, API, Codex, agents, and emerging product surfaces. Translate policy ambiguity, quality misses, appeals, and reviewer disagreement into clear decision rules, calibration examples, training, and tooling requirements. Build durable operating systems and quality loops: golden sets, holdouts, double-labeling, adjudication, error taxonomies, reviewer calibration, and automation evaluations. Raise FTE and BPO capability through onboarding, certification, coaching, recurring calibration, and vendor-performance partnership. Use quality, appeals, SLA, backlog, and disagreement signals to diagnose root causes and prioritize high-leverage fixes. Build hands-on solutions—SQL analyses, scripts, dashboards, LLM eval workflows, evidence enrichment, routing logic, and lightweight automations—that improve decision quality and reduce manua

About the Team OpenAI’s User Operations team shepherds our customers’ adoption of AI and ensures that our customers' product experience is nothing short of exceptional. We are building the very first post-AGI support team. We resolve complex issues, provide technical guidance, and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our products. We work closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering and others, to deliver the best possible experience to our customers at scale. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to established global enterprises. About the Role We are looking for an experienced, hands-on support leader to build and run the support and escalation motion for GPT-Rosalind and OpenAI’s life sciences customers. This is both a builder role and a frontline support role. You will work directly with customers, own complex cases, diagnose technical and operational issues, and coordinate cross-functional teams through resolution. You will also create the intake paths, playbooks, knowledge, tooling, and operating mechanisms needed to support life sciences workflows across ChatGPT, Codex, and the OpenAI API. You’ll partner closely with Account Directors, Product, Engineering and Forward Deployed Engineering, Security, Legal, and bioscience subject-matter experts. You will help customers receive coordinated, accurate answers while maintaining clear boundaries between technical support, scientific consultation, product feedback, and roadmap commitments. This role is an opportunity to define how OpenAI supports scientists and life sciences organizations as they adopt increasingly capable AI systems. In this role, you will: Work directly with Rosalind and life sciences customers, taking ownership of complex technical and operational support cases from intake through resolution. Serve as a critical escalation point and final line of defense for complex technical issues, partner

About the Team Critical Harm Operations sits within User Safety & Risk Operations and builds enforcement systems for Frontier Risk and Material Harm that are accurate, fast, defensible, and built to scale. The Cyber vertical turns policy into reviewer standards, calibrated judgment, quality systems, escalation paths, and automation guardrails. About the Role We are looking for a senior cybersecurity practitioner and operations strategist to raise the quality, scalability, and technical rigor of our Cyber Operations. You will combine hands-on cyber judgment with systems-level operating design: resolve the hardest dual-use questions, evolve SOPs, uplift reviewers and vendors, and build practical tools and automations. This is a senior IC role. Success is not primarily cases closed; it is durable improvement in the operating model and the reviewers who run it. This Toronto-based role is currently remote and is expected to transition to an in-office arrangement. In this role, you will: Drive the Cyber Operations operating model across domain priorities, SOPs, escalation paths, quality health, vendor capability, roadmap inputs and help inform trusted access strategies. Serve as the senior cyber expert for complex or high-risk decisions across ChatGPT, API, Codex, agents, and emerging product surfaces. Translate policy ambiguity, quality misses, appeals, and reviewer disagreement into clear decision rules, calibration examples, training, and tooling requirements. Build durable operating systems and quality loops: golden sets, holdouts, double-labeling, adjudication, error taxonomies, reviewer calibration, and automation evaluations. Raise FTE and BPO capability through onboarding, certification, coaching, recurring calibration, and vendor-performance partnership. Use quality, appeals, SLA, backlog, and disagreement signals to diagnose root causes and prioritize high-leverage fixes. Build hands-on solutions—SQL analyses, scripts, dashboards, LLM eval workflows, evidenc

About the Team The Senior Support Engineering team is responsible for ensuring that developers and enterprises can reliably build mission critical solutions using OpenAI models. We provide technical guidance, resolve complex issues and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our highly-capable models. We work closely with Technical Success, Product, Engineering and others to deliver the best possible experience to our customers at scale. We think from an automation-first mindset and leverage the latest in AI to scale our support operations. Join the Senior Support Engineering (SSE) team at OpenAI and help shape the future of Technical Support in the age of AI. About the Role We’re looking for a Support Engineering Manager to build and guide a high-performing team of experienced Senior Support Engineers with backgrounds in software engineering, site reliability engineering, and systems architecture. These engineers are trusted to operate with autonomy, tackle deeply technical challenges, and serve as the final escalation point before Engineering. In this role, you'll lead a team focused on deep problem-solving, proactive reliability work, and customer-specific troubleshooting. You’ll drive the design and operations of OpenAI’s incident management processes, including tooling, automations, and training, and ensure they are scalable and resilient. You’ll also oversee strategic customer workload monitoring, alerting, and a 24x7 rotation to ensure high-priority issues are caught early and handled with urgency. You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Technical Success, and field teams to improve the supportability of our products, reduce operational burden, and shape the future of AI-driven technical support. Your team will own incident response playbooks, build internal automations, and serve as technical stewards for our most strategic accounts. This is an opportunity to define what world-class technical support looks like in the

About the Team The Support team is central to ensuring that our customers' experience with our products is nothing short of exceptional. We resolve complex issues, provide technical guidance, and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our products. We work closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering and others to deliver the best possible experience to our customers at scale. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to established global enterprises. Given OpenAI’s breakneck shipping cadence and growth – and the expectation that it will only accelerate – our ability to architect automation systems and agentic workflows for scale is central to our ability to maintain exceptional support quality in the face of AGI. About the Role As a Support Vendor Manager, you will own the health, performance, and long-term scalability of multiple support partner and vendor relationships. This is a vendor leadership role first and foremost: you will drive commercial and operational accountability (SLAs, QBRs, escalation paths, remediation plans), while also building the operating model that enables support to scale without linear headcount growth. You’ll collaborate closely with User Operations teams (e.g., Trust & Safety, Fraud & Risk), Systems/Tooling, Data partners, and Product/PM stakeholders as we launch new workflows and launch and scale new programs. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. 1-2 weeks of travel per quarter may be required. You’ll be responsible for: End-to-end vendor leadership: Own day-to-day oversight, relationship health, and executive-level accountability for multiple support vendors/BPOs. Performance management & remediation: Define and manage SLA/KPI performance expectations, run WBRs/QBRs, identify performance gaps, and drive structu

About the Team The Ads Support Delivery team is responsible for helping successfully operate and grow on our Ads product. This includes technical guidance, troubleshooting complex delivery and monetization issues, and partnering closely with Product, Engineering, Trust & Safety and Go-To-Market teams to resolve customer-impacting problems and improve the platform over time. The team’s mission is to deliver a high-quality customer experience at scale by combining strong human support with automation, self-service, and AI-enabled workflows, while maintaining high operational rigor. About the Role: As a Support Delivery Lead for Ads, you will lead a team responsible for end-to-end support delivery across the ads ecosystem, including campaign setup, delivery, billing, measurement, and policy navigation. You will set the operational bar for quality, responsiveness, and consistency; coach and grow the team; and translate support signals into actionable improvements with Engineering, Product, and Go-To-Market partners. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Lead and support a team of Ads support engineers, ensuring they have the tools, clarity, and coaching needed to operate at a high bar in a technically complex domain. Set clear expectations and operating standards, run recurring performance reviews, and build development plans that grow both technical depth (ad tech fluency) and customer-facing excellence. Design and continuously improve support coverage for ad buyers, ensuring the team can diagnose delivery issues and monetization and integration issues with equal rigor. Act as the bridge between Support Delivery, Engineering, Product, and Go-To-Market teams. Drive alignment on priorities, escalation paths, launch readiness, tooling improvements and mechanisms to reduce repeated customer pain points. Partner with engineering teams

About the Team The User Operations team (Support) is central to ensuring that our customers' experience with our products is nothing short of exceptional. We resolve complex issues, provide technical guidance, and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our products. We work closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering and others to deliver the best possible experience to our customers at scale. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to established global enterprises. About the Role We’re seeking a Program Manager to lead support readiness and operational programs for OpenAI’s cloud and strategic partnerships. You’ll work closely with Engineering, Product, Support Delivery, and external partners to translate complex technical and business requirements into scalable customer support experiences. This role will help define how we support customers across partner ecosystems, from launch planning and issue-routing workflows to escalation management and ongoing operational improvements. In this role, you will: Lead support readiness for new and existing cloud and strategic partnerships, including launch planning, operational design, and ongoing program execution. Partner closely with Engineering, Product, go-to-market teams, and external partners to develop support models for technically complex products and integrations. Define partner-specific customer journeys, support workflows, escalation paths, ownership models, and cross-company handoffs. Identify operational and technical risks, align stakeholders on solutions, and drive improvements that strengthen the customer experience. Establish clear success metrics and operating rhythms to monitor partnership health, launch readiness, and support performance. Use AI and automation to improve partner-related support workflows and scale operations effectively. You might thrive in this role if you: Have 8+ years of experience

About the Team At OpenAI, the User Safety & Risk Operations (USRO) team helps protect our products and users from abuse, fraud, safety risks, and other forms of misuse. We operate at the front line of real-world safety and risk management, translating user and operational signals into timely decisions, effective interventions, and improvements to our systems. This role sits on a team focused on building operational capacity for new, ambiguous, and fast-moving company priorities. The team defines what needs to be built, creates the operating model to support it, and works with partner teams to make the work scalable and durable over time. About the Role We are looking for a senior program manager to build the safety, quality, and risk operations supporting a new category of consumer devices. You will translate ambiguous product risks and evolving requirements into practical operating models, workflows, escalation paths, launch-readiness plans, and cross-functional decision-making. This is a foundational role: the systems you build will shape how OpenAI launches, monitors, and improves a new category of consumer devices safely at scale. You will help establish how potential safety incidents, product-quality concerns, sensitive customer escalations, privacy-sensitive issues, and other emerging device risks are identified, investigated, resolved, and incorporated into product and operational improvements. You will turn incomplete requirements into practical workflows, decision rights, launch plans, quality controls, measurement, and durable ownership. The role centers on program building, operational judgment, and execution. We welcome candidates from product safety, quality assurance, regulatory operations, technical program management, healthcare, medical devices, aerospace, consumer technology, and other environments involving complex products or regulated risks. Direct consumer-hardware experience is helpful but not required. The strongest candidates learn unfam

About the Team At OpenAI, our Trust, Safety & Risk Operations teams safeguard our products, users, and the company from abuse, fraud, scams, regulatory non-compliance, and other emerging risks. We operate at the intersection of operations, compliance, user trust, and safety working closely with Legal, Policy, Engineering, Product, Go-To-Market, and external partners to ensure our platforms are safe, compliant, and trusted by a diverse, global user base. The Global Safety Response Operations team provides 24/7 coverage for user safety, risk, and regulatory escalations across OpenAI’s products, handling the highest-priority cases that require human judgment and rapid response. The team operates as the core escalation and delivery arm of OpenAI’s safety operations, ensuring that our products remain safe and aligned with policy while enabling timely, empathetic, and consistent user support. About the Role The Global Safety Response Operations Lead is a hands-on team lead who both manages a regional Safety Response team and personally handles high-risk safety cases. This role combines frontline safety work with people leadership, operational ownership, and cross-functional coordination. You will lead a team of Safety Response Analysts who handle OpenAI’s most sensitive and high-impact cases, while also personally contributing to casework for complex, high-risk, or high-visibility issues. You will own the execution of high severity escalations in your region and ensure proper execution and communication to cross functional stakeholders You will be accountable for ensuring your region consistently meets utilization, quality, and SLA targets while serving as the operational interface with Product, Policy, Legal, Investigations, and regional stakeholders. This is a 24/7 global operation that requires flexibility to support rotating shifts, including nights, weekends, and holidays, as part of a leadership on-call model. In This Role, You Will: Lead and coach a regional te