Senior Technical Program Manager

Cohesity • Roseville, MN

10d • $184,500 - $205,000

About The Position

Cohesity is hiring a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead product release operations and customer readiness as part of the Engineering organization. The role owns complex, cross-functional programs across Product, Engineering, Technical Support, Sales, Marketing, IT, Finance, HR, and business operations, spanning engineering release execution as well as go-to-market and customer readiness. The position also drives organizational effectiveness through metrics, governance, process improvement, and AI-augmented operating models.

The program owner is accountable from kickoff through release and post-launch care, turning ambiguous initiatives into executable plans with clear ownership, milestones, metrics, and guardrails. The role ensures products are built and tested and that commercial, legal, enablement, marketing, revenue recognition, and support readiness are in place before general availability. It also oversees partnership and OEM readiness, creates reusable playbooks and workflow templates, and communicates risks and decisions to VP- and C-level leaders.

Employees within a reasonable commute of a Cohesity core office are expected to work from an office two to three days per week. Candidates outside the area should be prepared to relocate before starting and have the legal right to work in the job location. The role has a stated annualized pay range of $184,500 to $205,000. Full-time employees are eligible for the company's benefits framework.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, IT, or a related field.
• At least 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, including ownership of go/no-go decisions.
• Track record of 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 building automated dashboards and scorecards in 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

• Partner with Product and Engineering throughout architecture, branching, QA, and release; challenge estimates and identify risks early.
• Own end-to-end release readiness, including product testing, pricing and legal clearance, transactable SKUs, sales and partner training, market awareness, revenue recognition, and Day-2 support readiness before general availability.
• Govern operational AI agents and agentic workflows, defining automation responsibilities, human overrides, and measurement against customer outcomes.
• Partner with Product Management to set and enforce quality standards for requirements before they enter engineering.
• Own portfolio outcomes from kickoff through release execution and post-launch care, communicating commitments, risks, and decisions needed.
• Develop program structures, milestone frameworks, and operating models for NPI tracks, new portfolio areas, partnership/OEM programs, and governance redesigns.
• Set success criteria, metrics, and guardrails before work begins and maintain accountability as scope changes.
• Own program health KPIs, release SLOs, and OKRs; build automated dashboards and scorecards using Jira, Tableau, or equivalent tools.
• Build and operate AI-augmented tracking and reporting workflows that identify risk, milestone drift, and compliance signals, with defined human intervention.
• Own go-to-market readiness, including 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, translating complex portfolio risks into 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 for sales functions, and/or equity grants

What This Job Offers

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