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About the Role
As a Business Operations Associate, you will operate as a true generalist working directly with company leadership on the most important problems facing the business at any given time. This is a highly dynamic, high-ownership role with rare exposure to how a category-defining company is built end to end, making it a strong fit for someone excited by company-building and long-term leadership growth.
Responsibilities
- Partner with founders and company leaders to drive high-priority strategic and operational initiatives
- Drive the operational engine behind our research initiatives, including standing up strategic partnerships to create benchmarks and RL environments
- Stand up our QA function from the ground up
- Own product operations: translate customer requirements into buildable specs and manage the ticket pipeline between pre and post sales asks
- Step into new strategic priorities as they emerge, taking ownership and driving them to impact
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience in consulting, investment banking, product management, or early-stage startup / founder roles
- Highly comfortable operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments with minimal structure
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, paired with excellent judgment
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Strong relationship-builder who works well across technical and non-technical teams
- High ownership mindset with a bias towards action
Experience Level
- 2+ years
About the Company
- Cogent is an Applied AI Lab building the next generation of AI agents for cybersecurity.
- AI has fundamentally changed how attacks happen, allowing malicious actors to operate at unprecedented speed and scale.
- Cogent’s "AI Taskforce" assesses petabytes of enterprise data to remediate these issues before critical breaches occur.
- To stay at the cutting edge, we blend frontier research with real-world execution.
- Cogent Research serves as our applied AI lab, providing the research horsepower needed to make truly agentic security workflows a reality.
- Since coming out of stealth, Cogent has experienced rapid growth.
- We partner with Fortune 500 companies to secure some of the most complex production environments in the world.
- We’re backed by Greylock and we’ve built a team with the best minds in applied AI.
- Our team is comprised of people from Top universities like Stanford, Berkeley, Penn, Duke, Carnegie Mellon, Waterloo, Unicorn, high-growth companies like Scale AI, Databricks, Stripe, Tesla, Coinbase, World class cybersecurity experts from Wiz, Abnormal AI, Zscaler, and Preeminent research labs like Deepmind and SAIL.