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About the Role

As a senior talent, learning and organizational development practitioner, you will build and direct high-performing teams at the intersection of human capability, business strategy, and emerging technology. You will shape how Cohesity builds the human and organizational capability needed to compete and win in an AI-powered world.

Responsibilities

Own programs that build the quality of people leadership across Cohesity, with direct accountability for outcomes reflected in engagement data and business performance.
Develop leadership pipelines and succession-aligned development pathways for emerging, mid-level, and senior leaders.
Partner with the broader People team on talent management processes including performance management, goal setting, and calibration ensuring manager capability programs equip leaders to run these processes well.
Use employee engagement data and QBR feedback to continuously improve program design and demonstrate impact.
Serve as the executive architect of Cohesity's AI-empowered workforce — setting the enterprise vision, strategy, and operating model for how thousands of employees build the confidence, capability, and durable habits to work with generative and agentic AI every day.
Own and continuously evolve an enterprise-wide AI enablement strategy, drawing on deep experience leading large-scale capability transformations across complex, global organizations.
Architect capability frameworks, role-based learning journeys, and adoption campaigns that move the workforce from awareness to sustained, measurable productivity with tools including Microsoft Copilot and Claude.
Forge executive partnerships with IT, Operations, and business unit leaders to integrate learning strategy with tool rollout, governance, and adoption metrics ensuring enablement is treated as a business imperative, not a training afterthought.
Own the OD and team effectiveness agenda for Cohesity, applying seasoned judgment to accelerate cohesion and performance across the enterprise, particularly through periods of integration and scale.
Lead high-stakes team effectiveness engagements (e.g., Insights Discovery), culture initiatives, and integration experiences at the executive and senior-leader level, building shared identity and ways of working across newly combined organizations.
Serve as a trusted diagnostician to senior leaders bringing pattern recognition earned over a career of organizational work to assess root causes and recommend the right intervention, whether developmental, facilitative, or structural.
Own and evolve "One Team" culture programming as a strategic asset, ensuring it matures alongside the organization rather than merely persisting.
Operate as the principal L&D and OD advisor to key functions including Engineering, Finance, Operations, and IT.
Translate ambiguous, complex business challenges into sharply targeted interventions, drawing on a track record of doing so across multiple business cycles, organizations, and industries.
Direct end-to-end engagement lifecycles stakeholder discovery, program architecture, delivery, and outcome measurement while holding a high bar for rigor and business relevance.
Influence at the VP and C-suite level, shaping how leaders think about capability, culture, and organizational health, not just responding to requests.
Set the strategic direction for Cohesity's learning technology ecosystem, ensuring the function operates with modern tools, at scale, and ahead of industry practice.
Direct the strategy and orchestration of the learning stack Docebo, Udemy, Franklin Covey, MS365, and enterprise AI tools to deliver scalable, modern learning experiences for a distributed global workforce.
Bring an informed, forward-looking point of view on where learning technology is headed, making build/buy/sunset decisions that keep the ecosystem lean and effective.
Define and uphold the function's quality bar, elevating the craft of the entire team and setting the standard for what great looks like at Cohesity.

Requirements

Progressive experience in Learning & Development, Organizational Development, or Talent Management.
Demonstrated success designing and scaling enterprise learning strategies in a fast-growing, complex, or post-acquisition environment.
Deep grounding in adult learning theory, instructional design, OD methodologies, and change management.
Strong understanding of talent management processes especially performance management and how development programs connect to goal setting, reviews, calibration, and succession planning.
Executive presence and proven ability to influence and advise senior leaders across functions.
Strong facilitation skills across in-person and virtual formats, from intact teams to large audiences.
Analytical fluency: comfort with engagement data, learning analytics, and building the ROI case for learning investments.
Experience managing budgets, vendors, and learning technology platforms (LMS/LXP).
Familiarity with generative AI tools and a point of view on how AI reshapes workforce capability.
Adaptability, curiosity, and a willingness to grow alongside the business are just as important as any specific skill listed above.
High ownership, direct access to the partnerships that matter, and real accountability for outcomes.
Bring a point of view and set direction, not just execute.
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.
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.
Collaborate across the People team and with business stakeholders constantly; this is not a role for someone who prefers to work in isolation.

Skills

AI-powered data security and management
Human capability
Business strategy
Emerging technology
Talent development
Learning experience design
Team effectiveness
Capability framework development
Leadership development
Talent management
Performance management
Goal setting
Calibration
AI enablement strategy
Generative AI
Agentic AI
Microsoft Copilot
Claude
Organizational Development
Change management
Adult learning theory
Instructional design
OD methodologies
Succession planning
Executive presence
Facilitation (in-person and virtual)
Data analysis
Learning analytics
ROI calculation
Budget management
Vendor management
Learning technology platforms (LMS/LXP)
Learning technology ecosystem strategy
Docebo
Udemy
Franklin Covey
MS365

Location

Designated job location

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in HR, Organizational Development, Education, or related field
Master's degree or certifications (e.g., CPTD, SHRM-SCP, coaching credentials) a plus

Salary/Compensations

$190,800.00-$212,000.00

Benefits

Health and wellness benefits
Vacation
Paid holidays and refresh days
401(k) retirement plan
Life and disability insurance coverages

About the Company

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.

Equal Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status or any other category protected by law.
If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, or are limited in the ability or unable to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, you may contact us at 1-855-9COHESITY or recruiting@cohesity.com for assistance.