Director, Business Development - Security

Cohesity, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 269,000 - 337,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness benefits

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

Cohesity, Inc. is seeking a Security Sales Specialist to scale partner-driven growth across markets lacking dedicated coverage. You will lead pipeline campaigns, drive cross-functional programs, and build executive relationships with security leadership to co-sell Cohesity’s data security solutions.

The role emphasizes enablement, programs, and a cohesive operating model for a fast-growing, globally distributed specialist team. Travel is required as needed.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in cybersecurity business development.
• Experience scaling partner-driven growth globally.
• Experience driving demand-generation and joint pipeline with partners.
• Strong data-driven program-management skills.
• Excellent written and visual communication for leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own quota and pipeline for markets without dedicated coverage.
• Manage joint go-to-market programs with technology and channel partners.
• Build executive relationships with customer security leadership.
• Coordinate cross-functionally with Marketing, Sales Ops, Product, and Delivery.
• Own enablement assets and scalable sales plays and programs.
• Design and run internal incentives and territory data hygiene reports.
• Lead leadership cadence and hiring coordination with recruiting.

Skills

Cybersecurity experience

Business development

Channel partnerships

Demand generation

Cross-functional coordination

AI tools

English proficiency

Willing to travel

Tools

CRM systems

Marketing automation

Sales enablement tools

Job description

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.

The Security specialist organization is a founding team: a lean group of Security Sales Specialists and Solutions Architects covering the highest-priority markets first, with more markets earning dedicated coverage over time.

A team this size can't put a dedicated person in every territory on day one, and it can't afford every rep independently rebuilding enablement or waiting on operational support that doesn't exist yet.

This role is both things a lean specialist team needs and doesn't yet have: the scale mechanism that generates coverage in markets without a dedicated rep, and the connective tissue that keeps a fast-growing, globally distributed team operating as one function instead of independent pods.

You have two jobs that reinforce each other. First, you own go-to-market motion and pipeline generation for every market without a dedicated Security Sales Specialist or Security Solutions Architect — through targeted campaigns, partner-sourced pipeline, and programs that reach accounts the core team can't cover directly. Second, you are the operational hub for the specialist organization itself — enablement, reporting, cross-functional coordination, and the infrastructure that lets the VP, the Solutions Architecture leader, and the field spend their time selling and coaching instead of building decks and chasing status updates.

At the center of this role is one standing responsibility: helping structure and maintain a cohesive, impactful operating model for the Security specialist organization as it scales. In practice, that means:

HOW YOU’LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE:

• Own an assigned quota for markets without dedicated coverage — build and run targeted campaigns, plays, and programs that generate and convert pipeline.
• Own the data model that signals when a market is ready for dedicated coverage, and manage joint go-to-market programs with technology and channel partners.
• Build direct executive relationships between Cohesity and customer security leadership — briefing programs, roundtables, and a consistent point of view.
• Be the cross-functional connective tissue for the specialist organization — the single point of coordination with Marketing, Sales/Revenue Operations, Product, and the broader delivery ecosystem.
• Own and maintain the team's enablement and positioning library, and scale what works into repeatable sales plays, programs, and campaigns.
• Design and run internal sales incentives, and own territory data hygiene and the reporting infrastructure that gives leadership a single source of truth.
• Build and maintain the recurring leadership narrative, run the team's operating cadence, and partner with recruiting on hiring pipeline and ramp logistics.

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

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry, with a focus on business development and strategic partnerships.
• Demonstrated success building and scaling partner-driven growth initiatives in a global environment.
• Demonstrable experience driving scale in a global environment.
• Experience building demand-generation or scale-coverage programs, and managing partner/channel go-to-market programs — co-marketing, deal registration, joint pipeline.
• Strong cross-functional operating skills — comfortable being the connective tissue among Sales, Marketing, Product, and Operations without formal authority.
• Data fluency and program-management discipline — able to run multiple concurrent workstreams without dropping any of them.
• Strong written and visual communication skills, and experience designing sales incentive programs that turn a one-off win into a repeatable play.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support decision making.
• Professional English language proficiency for customer and internal communication.
• The ability to travel as required for the role.

WE ARE EXTRA EXCITED IF YOU HAVE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:

• Experience supporting a newly formed or fast-scaling specialist / overlay sales organization, with background in cybersecurity, data protection, or cyber-resilience markets.
• Experience with territory or trigger-based coverage models, and building recruiting pipeline or onboarding programs with a hiring manager or Talent team.

HOW YOU WILL BE MEASURED:

• Attainment of your assigned quota, and accuracy / adoption of the coverage data model.
• Partner-sourced pipeline and joint program results, and adoption / impact of the enablement, plays, and incentives you own.
• Reliability of the team's reporting, and time given back to the VP and Solutions Architecture leader.
• Ramp time and hiring velocity for new team members you help coordinate.

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.

Pay Range :

$269,280.00-$336,600.00

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

Current pay transparency shows the OTE (On-Target Earnings) for commission-based roles.

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In-Office Expectations

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