Learning & Organizational Development Director

Cohesity•Santa Clara, CA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The People team is looking for a senior learning and organizational development practitioner who operates at the intersection of human capability, business strategy, and emerging technology. You don't just design programs — you diagnose organizational challenges and build the right intervention for the moment, whether that's a learning experience, a team effectiveness engagement, a capability framework, or something that doesn't yet have a name. At Cohesity, you'll help shape how we build the human and organizational capability needed to compete and win in an AI-powered world. 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. We operate as a small, senior team which means high ownership and direct access to the partnerships that matter. We expect you to bring a point of view, not just 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.

Requirements

Deep expertise in adult learning principles and modern instructional design, with a track record of building solutions that drive behavior change, not just knowledge transfer.
Demonstrated personal fluency with generative and agentic AI tools (like Microsoft Copilot and Claude), and ability to design and operationalize enterprise AI adoption programs that build confidence and capability at scale.
Experience designing and facilitating team effectiveness interventions, culture initiatives, and capability frameworks that go beyond the classroom.
A consistent track record of building trust, driving alignment, and delivering outcomes through senior stakeholder relationships in complex organizations including Senior Leaders, People Partners and other cross functional business stakeholders.
Demonstrated ability to build and sustain strong working relationships with People Partners, co-designing interventions and ensuring learning and OD work is tightly connected to the broader people strategy for each business unit.
Ability to define program success metrics, support QBR reporting, and use data and stakeholder feedback to demonstrate clear, credible business outcomes.
Has owned an enterprise-wide or function-wide learning or OD strategy — not just delivered programs within one — and can speak to how that strategy connected to business outcomes.
Has designed and led end-to-end, large scale, enterprise-wide enablement initiatives and can describe what worked, what didn't, and what they'd do differently.
Has navigated a matrixed, fast-moving tech environment and built credibility with technical stakeholders without a formal mandate.
Has delivered team effectiveness or organizational development work (not just training) that a leader or team would specifically point to as having made a difference.
Has operated as a senior individual contributor — taking full ownership of complex, ambiguous bodies of work without needing heavy direction.
Progressive L&D and OD experience in a high-growth technology environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience building and executing manager and leader effectiveness programs tied to measurable outcomes such as engagement survey improvement or performance framework adoption.
Hands-on experience with LXP/LMS platforms (Docebo a plus) and comfort designing within a Microsoft 365 and enterprise AI tool environment.
Ability to apply structured approaches (such as Insights Discovery or similar frameworks) to navigate complex stakeholder dynamics and lead alignment conversations with senior leaders.
Experience serving as an informal thought partner and coach to peers, sharing expertise in ways that raise the overall capability of the team around you.
Familiarity with tools such as Udemy, Franklin Covey, or similar content ecosystems.
Experience supporting post-merger or post-acquisition integration through learning and OD interventions.
Exposure to agile or product-thinking approaches applied to learning program design.

Responsibilities

Own programs that build the quality of people leadership across Cohesity, with direct accountability for outcomes reflected in engagement data and business performance.
Build scalable, high-quality interventions — workshops, cohort programs, resources, and coaching frameworks — that translate into stronger team performance.
Use employee engagement data and QBR feedback to continuously improve program design and demonstrate impact.
Lead OD and team effectiveness work that accelerates cohesion and performance across key functions within Cohesity.
Design and facilitate team effectiveness engagements, culture initiatives, and integration learning experiences that build shared identity and ways of working.
Partner with senior leaders to diagnose organizational challenges and recommend the right intervention — learning, facilitation, or structural.
Sustain and evolve "One Team" culture programming as the organization continues to scale.
Serve as the primary L&D and OD thought partner for key functions including Engineering, Finance, Operations, and IT, building the kind of trusted relationships that generate long-term impact.
Translate complex business needs into targeted, high-quality interventions.
Lead stakeholder discovery, program design, and outcome measurement for functional learning priorities.
Elevate the people and platforms around you, acting as a senior thought partner to L&D peers and a steward of Cohesity's learning technology ecosystem.
Mentor and coach L&D peers, modeling best practices in design, stakeholder engagement, and program execution.
Leverage Docebo, Udemy, Franklin Covey, MS365, and enterprise AI tools to build scalable, modern learning experiences for a distributed global workforce.
Contribute to L&D's overall quality bar, helping the team continuously raise the standard of what great looks like.