Applied AI Transformation Manager
San Francisco, CAFull-timePosted 1y agoStill listed 4 days ago
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Cognition is hiring an Applied AI Transformation Manager. Cognition seeks an Applied AI Transformation Manager to act as a technically oriented strategic advisor, ensuring value alignment for customers, designing operating and delivery models for agentic AI, and driving enterprise‑wide transformation programs across strategic accounts.
Key focus areas include Work with customer leadership to identify, quantify and report value targets for productivity gains and financial impact, Ensure seamless operations and delivery for the overall customer program in close partnership with the Cognition account team, and Maintain great relationships and customer trust via delivery.
Successful candidates bring Computer Science Undergrad, EE Undergrad, and SWE Intern Experience. Important skills include Value Alignment, Program Management, Identifying Strategic Opportunities, Value Capture, Value Reporting, and Designing Operating Model For Agentic AI. Preferred (not required): Sourcing Account Growth, Managing Account Growth, and Working In High-Intensity Environments.
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We are an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents. 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.
About the Role Applied AI Transformation Managers are technically oriented strategic advisors and operators who ensure value alignment to our customer's most strategic projects and drive program delivery across several strategic accounts. You’ll be responsible for identifying strategic opportunities for our customers to realize value from Cognition’s platform and ensuring strong value capture and reporting. You will support delivery of enterprise wide programs to implement agentic AI, specifically by designing and building the operating model and delivery model for agentic AI.
You’ll act as a trusted advisor to senior and functional leaders, designing value realization targets and delivering transformation programs. This role embeds with a select set of Cognition’s strategic accounts for upfront strategy work through in-depth program management and delivery. You will be on the frontlines of supporting customers turning productivity gains and quantifiable financial impact. You will pioneer the playbook for how the world’s largest enterprises get value from AI Agents.
In this role, you will:
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Work with customer leadership to identify, quantify and report value targets for productivity gains and financial impact
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Ensure seamless operations and delivery for the overall customer program, in close partnership with the Cognition account team
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Ensure everyone at customer and Cog has visibility on playbook implementation, consumption metrics and value metrics
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Maintain great relationships and customer trust via delivery
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Oversee onboarding and rollout to thousands of engineers, ensuring successful deployment
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Apply world class analytical and technical program management skills to support customer executives and teams, particularly with value realization and tracking
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Build centers of excellence within accounts and empower them through tailored enablement programs
Requirements for the role:
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Computer science or EE undergrad
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SWE intern or full time work experience
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3-5 years at a big 3 strategy consulting firm with a strong background in value targeting and realization and technology strategy as well as a proven track record building and expanding client relationships
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Ideally 2+ years experience at a startup in a customer facing role preferred
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Thrive in ambiguous, fast-changing environments—you move quickly and grow quickly
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Demonstrated ability to learn exceptionally fast
You might excel if you…
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have successfully been a part of complex enterprise teams, especially sourcing and managing account growth
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have worked as a software engineer, SE, technical account manager or other technical role
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previously founded a startup or were early stage at a high growth startup
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are a competitive, highly ambitious person who loves working in high-intensity environments
Equal Opportunity Cognition is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities throughout the hiring process - please let us know if you need any.
How this job compares
Set against the 439 open Transformation Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 8, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$94–294K/yr51 salary ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 52 open Transformation Manager jobs in California and 439 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- Transformation Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 5 to 8 years (433 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 324 of the 439 open Transformation Manager jobs (74%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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