Senior Technical Program Manager | Santa Clara, CA - USA (Office) Expand to view all locations Cohesity - Roseville

Cohesity, Inc.

Santa Clara (CA)

On-site

USD 185,000 - 205,000

Full time

12 days ago

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Healthcare coverage

Parental leave

Flexible paid time off

Wellness programme

Continuous learning opportunities

Job summary

Cohesity is seeking a Senior Release Operations / Program Manager to own end‑to‑end release execution across product, engineering, GTM and customer readiness. You will drive governance, metrics and accountability to ensure on‑time, quality releases and seamless go‑to‑market launches.

You will partner with Engineering, Product, Sales, Marketing and Legal to align strategy, execution and post‑launch care, creating scalable playbooks and dashboards that keep leadership informed of risk and progress.

Qualifications

Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, IT or a related field, with extensive programme management experience.
Experience governing multi‑product software/hardware portfolios and making go/no‑go decisions.
Proven track record delivering GTM readiness (sales enablement, pricing/SKU operations, legal/compliance, marketing, support).
Experience leading partnerships or OEM programs from agreement through launch.

Responsibilities

Own end‑to‑end release readiness: product built/tested, pricing/legal cleared, SKUs transactable, sales/training ready, market awareness live, revenue recognition in place before GA.
Define success criteria, metrics and guardrails before work begins and hold the programme to them as scope evolves.
Build program structure and governance for new tracks and partnerships, turning visions into executable plans.
Develop and govern release health KPIs, dashboards and scorecards for leadership visibility.

Skills

Degree in Computer Science

System design fluency

Program management

GTM readiness

Partnership / OEM delivery

Dashboards (Jira/Tableau)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Jira

Tableau

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 centre, edge and cloud.

It helps organisations defend against cybersecurity threats with immutable backup snapshots, AI‑based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behaviour and rapid recovery at scale.

Cohesity has been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and has been globally recognised 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 organisational effectiveness and efficiency, using a metrics‑driven approach, driving accountability and improving our processes.

HOW YOU'LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE:

You will serve as a senior level force‑multiplier across Product, Engineering and the broader organisation. This role demands single‑threaded ownership across complex, cross‑functional programs spanning product management, engineering, technical support, sales, marketing, IT, Finance, HR, business operations etc. — owning both the depth of engineering release execution and the breadth of GTM and customer readiness. You define and drive organisational effectiveness at scale — building the metrics systems, governance frameworks and agentic operating models that raise the execution bar across the entire team.

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 programmes and governance redesigns, turning ambiguous visions into executable plans with clear ownership.
Define success criteria, metrics and guardrails before work begins and hold the programme to them as scope evolves.

Data‑Driven Execution

Own programme 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 and Monetisation, Legal, Enterprise Systems, Sales, Marketing, Finance and Support as the single accountable programme 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 distil 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 programme 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 programme, not a downstream hand‑off.
Experience leading partnership or OEM programme integration from agreement through launch, including contracts and entitlements.
Proven automated dashboards and scorecards in Jira, Tableau or similar.

Preferred

Enterprise data protection, cyber‑security 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 programme management.
PMP, PgMP or equivalent.

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

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Life at Cohesity

At Cohesity, we work hard and move fast—and we’re not afraid to push boundaries to deliver exceptional work. We value integrity and respect, and here’s what we promise: We’ll give you the tools to be successful and welcome you into a culture that celebrates individual contributions and collective success. We’ll empower you to grow, offer continuous learning opportunities and surround you with ambitious, collaborative colleagues.

We strive to have a parity of benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our employees (and their families) is the right thing to do.