Senior Director, Talent and Growth

Interested candidates based outside of the designated areas are welcome to apply, provided they have the indefinite right to work in the job location.

Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data — across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale.

We’ve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design.

Join us on our mission to shape the future of our industry.

You will lead Cohesity's end-to-end talent and capability strategy — connecting leadership expectations, performance, development, and workforce transformation into a single, integrated system. You will define how we build leaders, measure performance, develop talent, and enable internal mobility, ensuring our talent strategy is AI-native, skills-based, and directly aligned to business outcomes. You lead a team across talent management, L&D, and organizational development, and serve as a strategic partner to executive leadership — moving fluently from strategy to execution and raising the bar on execution discipline, measurement, and talent outcomes.

 

HOW YOU'LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE:

Define Cohesity's Leadership Operating Model: You will establish the leadership behaviors that define what great looks like at Cohesity, embed across the talent lifecycle and drive consistency and accountability in how leadership is assessed and rewarded.

Modernize Performance: You will redesign the performance system to be AI-native, continuous, data-driven and insight-led.

• Integrate leadership behaviors throughout the performance system:

• Performance assessments

• Scorecards

• DPs and promotion decisions

• Launch and scale AI-assisted goal creation, performance feedback and review

• Equip and train managers and People Partners 

Lead Talent Reviews, Succession, and Promotions: You will own and enable the enterprise talent review, succession planning, and promotion processes with rigor and consistency.

• Design the enterprise talent review processes and deliver in partnership with People Partners and business stakeholders 

• Ensure clear standards, strong calibration, and data-driven decisions

Build a Skills-Based Talent System & Internal Mobility Strategy: You will define and implement the skills-based talent architecture and the frameworks that move talent across the company.

• Build a skills-based talent architecture

• Design and scale internal mobility frameworks

• Align skills, roles, and career pathways to evolving business needs

• Enable leaders to make better talent decisions through skills and data

Activate Leadership, Learning & Org Development: You will lead a team that owns leadership development, learning and organizational development experiences that build capability across Cohesity — from manager effectiveness and cohort programs to team effectiveness, learning platforms, and AI enablement.

• Partner with senior leaders and People Partners as the Leadership and Talent thought partners— diagnosing needs and developing, delivering, and facilitating learning and capability building aligned to business needs, priorities and succession pipelines 

• Run capability-building cohorts across the manager and leadership pipeline from aspiring leaders, new managers, manager forums and executive development 

• Lead a portfolio of high-impact career and high-potential development experiences (i.e., mentoring, coaching, external development opportunities) 

• Design and deliver company-wide learning campaigns and steward the learning technology ecosystem to deliver modern, scalable learning to a distributed global workforce

• Lead the learning side of AI enablement — building the capability frameworks, learning journeys, and adoption campaigns that move employees to confident, productive use of AI tools

WE'D LOVE TO TALK TO YOU IF YOU HAVE MANY OF THE FOLLOWING:

Core Skills 

• Enterprise talent leadership — a proven leader across talent management, performance, L&D and org development at enterprise scale, with a track record of leading and elevating a multi-disciplinary talent function

• Strategy-to-execution operator — a strong operator who can move fluently from talent strategy to execution, bringing rigor, execution discipline, and structure to complex, high-stakes bodies of work

• Performance and talent systems modernization —experience modernizing performance and talent systems, making them continuous, insight-led, and tightly connected to development and promotion decisions

• AI-native design — able to embed AI across talent and performance — from AI-assisted goal creation to insight-driven assessment — to make the talent system faster, more consistent, and more useful to leaders

• Executive influence and credibility — highly credible with senior leaders and comfortable influencing at the executive level, partnering across the People Leadership Team, People Partners, and business stakeholders to drive alignment and outcomes

• Partnership and co-creation — builds solutions with People Partners, business leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders rather than delivering top-down mandates, creating shared ownership and durable adoption of talent and performance initiatives

• Capability translation — demonstrated ability to convert strategic business priorities into targeted talent interventions across learning, organizational development, and team effectiveness

• Measurement and business impact — ability to define program success metrics and build dashboards and analytics that show efficiency, cycle time, adoption, quality, and employee experience so leaders can make clear decisions

Enabling Skills

• Skills-based and workforce transformation — a track record of driving skills-based talent architecture and workforce transformation initiatives, designing systems that align skills, roles, and career pathways to evolving business needs

• Internal mobility and career architecture — experience designing and scaling internal mobility frameworks and career pathways tied to a skills-based talent system

Bonus Skills 

• Development program design — experience leading a portfolio of high-impact development experiences aligned to capability gaps and succession pipelines

• Exposure to high-growth technology environments scaling talent systems through rapid change

Rather than years-of-service requirements, here is what readiness looks like for this role:

• Has led talent management, performance, L&D and organizational development at enterprise scale within a HR function — setting direction, developing a team, and raising the bar on execution and impact

• Has navigated a matrixed, fast-moving tech environment and built credibility with executive stakeholders

• Has defined and embedded a leadership operating model or set of leadership behaviors across hiring, performance, promotions and development 

Note: We value demonstrated capability over credentials. A degree is not required.

We operate in a fast-moving industry where technology, tools, and priorities can shift quickly. The responsibilities listed here reflect where we are today — but this role will evolve. We're looking for someone who sees that as an opportunity, not an obstacle. Adaptability, curiosity, and a willingness to grow alongside the business are just as important as any specific skill listed above.

How We Work

• We operate as a lean, senior team which means high ownership, direct access to the partnerships that matter, and real accountability for outcomes

• We expect you to bring a point of view and set direction, as well as execute; the best ideas here come from practitioners who are close to the work

• We use AI tools actively and practically across the team not as a novelty, but as a genuine part of how we design, research, and deliver

• We hold ourselves to a high-quality bar and believe that measurable business impact and positive employee experience are key indicators of success in this function

• We collaborate across the People team and with business stakeholders constantly; this is not a role for someone who prefers to work in isolation

 

Disclosure Pursuant to Applicable State Equal Pay Transparency Laws - This position has a starting pay range as listed below. Actual salary depends upon many factors, including a candidate’s skills, qualifications and experience, location, and salary expectations, and therefore a starting salary at the low end, high end, or even above the stated range may be offered. This position may also be eligible for bonus compensation, commission (if in a sales function), and/or equity grants. Additionally, full-time employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits framework, including health and wellness benefits, vacation, paid holidays and refresh days, 401(k) retirement plan, life and disability insurance coverages, and other benefits the Company may offer from time to time.

$189,760.00-$237,200.00

The compensation noted above is based on an annualized hourly rate assuming normal full-time employment.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Employer (EEOE)

Cohesity is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status or any other category protected by law.

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In-Office Expectations

Cohesity employees who are within a reasonable commute (e.g. within a forty-five (45) minute average travel time) work out of our core offices 2-3 days a week of their choosing.

Interested candidates based outside of the designated areas are welcome to apply, provided they have the right to work in the job location.