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Applied AI Transformation Manager

Cognition

San Francisco, CAFull-timePosted 1y agoStill listed 4 days ago

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Location
San Francisco, CA
Schedule
Full-time
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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree

Job overview

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.

Skills & qualifications

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Skills

Value AlignmentProgram ManagementIdentifying Strategic OpportunitiesValue CaptureValue ReportingDesigning Operating Model for Agentic AIBuilding Delivery Model for Agentic AITrusted AdvisorDesigning Value Realization TargetsDelivering Transformation ProgramsQuantify Value TargetsReport Value TargetsSeamless OperationsSeamless DeliveryMaintain Customer TrustOversee OnboardingOversee RolloutAnalytical SkillsValue TrackingBuilding Centers of ExcellenceEmpower Through Tailored Enablement ProgramsThrive in Ambiguous EnvironmentsThrive in Fast-Changing EnvironmentsMove QuicklyGrow QuicklyLearn Exceptionally FastSourcing Account GrowthManaging Account GrowthWorking in High-Intensity EnvironmentsCustomer TrustTechnical Program ManagementBuild Centers of Excellence

Qualifications

Computer Science UndergradElectrical Engineering UndergradSWE Intern ExperienceSWE Full Time Work Experience3-5 Years at Big 3 Strategy Consulting FirmStrong Background in Value Targeting and RealizationStrong Background in Technology StrategyProven Track Record Building Client Relationships2+ Years Startup Customer Facing Role ExperienceSuccessfully Been Part of Complex Enterprise TeamsWorked as a Software EngineerWorked as a Sales Engineer

Full job description

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:

  • 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

  • Ensure everyone at customer and Cog has visibility on playbook implementation, consumption metrics and value metrics

  • Maintain great relationships and customer trust via delivery

  • Oversee onboarding and rollout to thousands of engineers, ensuring successful deployment

  • Apply world class analytical and technical program management skills to support customer executives and teams, particularly with value realization and tracking

  • Build centers of excellence within accounts and empower them through tailored enablement programs

Requirements for the role:

  • Computer science or EE undergrad

  • SWE intern or full time work experience

  • 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

  • Ideally 2+ years experience at a startup in a customer facing role preferred

  • Thrive in ambiguous, fast-changing environments—you move quickly and grow quickly

  • Demonstrated ability to learn exceptionally fast

You might excel if you…

  • have successfully been a part of complex enterprise teams, especially sourcing and managing account growth

  • have worked as a software engineer, SE, technical account manager or other technical role

  • previously founded a startup or were early stage at a high growth startup

  • 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.
Hiring the most in California
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.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 8, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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