Senior Technical Program Manager

Cohesity • Santa Clara, CA

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

Cohesity is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead complex, cross-functional programs across Product, Engineering, and the broader organization. The role owns product release execution and go-to-market and customer readiness, coordinating teams including Product Management, Engineering, Technical Support, Sales, Marketing, IT, Finance, HR, and Business Operations. The position also advances organizational effectiveness through metrics-driven execution, accountability, process improvement, governance, and AI-augmented operating models.

The program manager owns portfolio outcomes from kickoff through release and post-launch care, including program plans, milestones, success criteria, risks, decisions, and executive communications. They partner with Product and Engineering across architecture, branching, QA, and release, establish product-requirement quality standards, and ensure all elements of release readiness are in place before general availability. These include product testing, pricing and legal approvals, transactable SKUs, enablement, market awareness, revenue recognition, and Day-2 support.

The role also develops automated dashboards, scorecards, and agentic reporting workflows to monitor program health, release SLOs, OKRs, risk, milestone drift, and compliance. It leads partnership and OEM readiness from agreement through launch and creates reusable playbooks, governance frameworks, and workflow templates for adoption across the organization. The position presents data-backed risks, trade-offs, and proposals to VP- and C-level leaders.

Cohesity describes itself as a leader in AI-powered data security and management, helping organizations secure, protect, manage, and derive value from data across data centers, edge environments, and cloud. Employees within a reasonable commute of a core office work there 2–3 days per week, on days of their choosing. Candidates outside the area should be committed to relocating before their start date and must have the legal right to work in the job location.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, IT, or a related field.
• 10+ years of relevant program management experience.
• System design fluency and the ability to govern AI-augmented operations.
• Experience managing complex, multi-product software and hardware portfolios across simultaneous cadences and large stakeholder groups.
• Experience owning go/no-go decisions.
• Track record driving go-to-market readiness, including sales enablement, pricing/SKU operations, legal and compliance, marketing, and support, as part of release programs.
• Experience leading partnership or OEM program integration from agreement through launch, including contracts and entitlements.
• Experience creating automated dashboards and scorecards using Jira, Tableau, or similar tools.

Nice To Haves

• Background in enterprise data protection, cybersecurity, or infrastructure software.
• Experience governing on-premises 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 certification.

Responsibilities

• Own complex, cross-functional program outcomes from kickoff through release execution and post-launch care.
• Partner with Product and Engineering throughout architecture, branching, QA, and release, challenging estimates and identifying risks.
• Own end-to-end product release readiness, including engineering quality, pricing, legal, SKU transacting, enablement, marketing, revenue recognition, and customer support.
• Govern operational AI agents and agentic workflows, defining automation ownership, human overrides, and measurement against customer outcomes.
• Partner with Product Management to establish and enforce quality standards for requirements entering engineering.
• Build program structures, milestone frameworks, and operating models for NPI tracks, portfolio areas, partnership/OEM programs, and governance redesigns.
• Define program success criteria, metrics, and guardrails, and manage programs as scope evolves.
• Own program health KPIs, release SLOs, and OKRs, supported by automated dashboards and scorecards.
• Build and operate AI-augmented tracking and reporting workflows that identify risks, milestone drift, and compliance signals.
• Own go-to-market readiness, coordinating sales and partner enablement, pricing and SKUs, legal and compliance, marketing, and Day-2 support.
• Align Product Management and Monetization, Legal, Enterprise Systems, Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Support as the accountable program owner.
• Lead partnership and OEM readiness, including contracts, entitlements, binary intake, Salesforce/NetSuite configuration, and support enablement.
• Create reusable playbooks, governance frameworks, and agentic workflow templates and drive their adoption across teams.
• Present risks, trade-offs, and proposals to VP- and C-level leaders in decision-ready, data-backed communications.

Benefits

• Health and wellness benefits
• Vacation
• Paid holidays and refresh days
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Potential bonus compensation, commission if in a sales function, and/or equity grants

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior