Senior Technical Program Manager

Cohesity; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness benefits

Vacation and holidays

401(k) retirement plan

Life and disability insurance

Job summary

Cohesity, Inc. is seeking an experienced Release Operations leader to align product strategy with engineering execution and GTM readiness.

You will own end-to-end release readiness, drive program health, and coordinate across product, sales, marketing, and support to ensure successful GA launches. You will build AI-augmented tracking and reporting workflows, set quality gates for requirements, and lead partnerships/OEM program integration from contract to launch.

Qualifications

• Degree in CS/CE/IT with 10+ years PM experience.
• Experience governing AI-augmented operations.
• Experience managing multi-product software and hardware portfolios with go/no-go ownership.
• Proven GTM readiness (sales enablement, pricing, marketing, etc.).
• Experience leading partnerships or OEM program integration from agreement through launch.
• Proven automated dashboards and scorecards in Jira/Tableau or similar.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end release readiness across architecture, QA, pricing, SKUs, training, and go-to-market.
• Be the single accountable owner from kickoff to post-launch care with clear milestones and risks.
• Define and track program health KPIs, release SLOs, and OKRs with real-time dashboards.
• Lead go-to-market readiness for every release, including sales enablement, pricing, legal, marketing, and support.
• Create reusable playbooks and governance templates to scale program management across teams.
• Present risks, trade-offs, and proposals to executives with data-backed recommendations.

Skills

System design

GTM readiness

Release program ownership

AI-augmented operations

Education

B.S. in CS/CE/IT

Tools

Jira

Tableau

Salesforce

NetSuite

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.

You will play a key role running product releases with customer readiness focus while being part of Engineering organization and driving all cross functions across the company for a successful release launch. This will require cross-functional work across several business teams and alignment with the new product introduction teams ranging from product management to technical support, sales marketing etc. You will also participate in increasing our organizational effectiveness and efficiency, using a metrics-driven approach, driving accountability, and improving our processes.

HOW YOU’LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE:

Release Operations: Aligning Product Strategy, Engineering Execution & GTM Readiness

• Partner with Engineering and Product across the full lifecycle (architecture, branching, QA, release) as a credible technical voice who challenges estimates and surfaces risk before it reaches a gate.
• Own end-to-end release readiness: product built and tested, pricing and legal cleared, SKUs transactable, sales and partners trained, market awareness live, revenue recognition in place, and Day-2 support ready before GA.
• Govern operational AI agents and agentic workflows with release-level rigor: define what automation owns, where human judgment overrides, and how both are measured against customer outcomes.
• Set and enforce the quality bar for product requirements before they enter engineering, partnering with Product Management to raise how requirements are defined, reviewed, and handed off.

Program Ownership & Ambiguity Navigation

• Be the single accountable owner of your portfolio’s outcomes, from kickoff through release execution and post-launch care. Own the program narrative: what’s committed, what’s at risk, and what decision is needed.
• Build program structure, milestone frameworks, and operating models from scratch for NPI tracks, new portfolio areas, partnership/OEM programs, and governance redesigns, turning ambiguous visions into executable plans with clear ownership.
• Define success criteria, metrics, and guardrails before work begins, and hold the program to them as scope evolves.

Data-Driven Execution

• Own program health KPIs, release SLOs, and OKRs, with automated dashboards and scorecards (Jira, Tableau, or equivalent) that give leadership a real-time view of portfolio health.
• Build and operate AI-augmented tracking and agentic reporting workflows that flag risk, milestone drift, and compliance signals in real time, governing what AI owns versus where humans intervene.

GTM & Customer Readiness

• Own go-to-market readiness for every release, not just engineering completion: sales and partner enablement, pricing and SKUs, legal and compliance, marketing, and Day-2 support, all in place before a customer touches the product.
• Align PM & Monetization, Legal, Enterprise Systems, Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Support as the single accountable program owner.
• Lead partnership and OEM readiness (contracts, entitlements, binary intake, Salesforce/NetSuite configuration, support enablement) so new partners can transact, entitle, and support customers from day one.

Force Multiplication

• Create reusable playbooks, governance frameworks, and agentic workflow templates that scale across the BPGM team and the wider engineering, product, and business operations community, and drive adoption even where teams didn’t ask for it.

Executive Presence & Communication

• Present risks, trade-offs, and proposals directly to VP and C-level, and distill complex multi-portfolio risk into decision-ready communications: a data-backed point of view, not a status update.

Qualifications Required

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, IT, or a related field, plus 10+ years of relevant program management experience.
• System design fluency and the authority to govern AI-augmented operations.
• Experience managing complex, multi-product software and hardware portfolios across simultaneous cadences and large stakeholder groups, with ownership of go/no-go decisions.
• Track record driving GTM readiness (sales enablement, pricing/SKU operations, legal and compliance, marketing, support) as part of the release program, not a downstream handoff.
• Experience leading partnership or OEM program integration from agreement through launch, including contracts and entitlements.
• Proven automated dashboards and scorecards in Jira, Tableau, or similar.

Preferred

• Enterprise data protection, cybersecurity, or infrastructure software background.
• Experience governing on-prem and cloud SaaS releases simultaneously.
• OEM or partner-embedded delivery experience.
• NPI experience, from incubation through mainstream.
• Hands-on design or deployment of agentic automation in program management.
• PMP, PgMP, or equivalent.

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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 :

$184,500.00-$205,000.00

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

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