C

Cogent Security

AI-driven vulnerability management with autonomous agents

Executive Assistant to the CEO

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
No salary listed
Senior
San Francisco, CA, USA
In PersonHosts visitors at the San Francisco office.
Administrative & Executive AssistanceExecutive Support

About the job

Requirements
  • Have 7 or more years of experience as an Executive Assistant, ideally supporting a CEO or founder.
  • Have a background at a venture-backed startup or a venture capital firm.
  • Be able to anticipate the CEO's needs and act proactively.
  • Have advanced calendar and inbox management skills, including judgment about which requests to schedule or decline.
  • Have project management skills and be able to track and advance several workstreams at once.
  • Be poised with customers and executives and comfortable serving as the first person a Fortune 500 security leader meets at Cogent.
  • Exercise discretion with confidential information.
Responsibilities
  • Own end-to-end calendar and email management for the CEO and Field CISO, triaging inbound requests and protecting focus time across time zones.
  • Coordinate the executives' weeks, prepare for meetings, and follow up on action items through completion.
  • Run logistics for critical meetings, including candidate conversations with the CEO.
  • Host customers, investors, and candidates visiting the San Francisco office, and serve as the first point of contact for the CEO's office.
  • Handle day-to-day leadership logistics, including travel and team meals through Forkable.
  • Take on special projects and expand support to founders and critical function leaders as the team grows.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience supporting more than one executive at a time.
  • Experience coordinating recruiting logistics or candidate interviews.
  • Experience at a Series A-C company during a period of fast headcount growth.

About the company

C

Cogent Security

View
Website

Cogent Security provides AI-driven vulnerability management for large organizations. Its core product is an agentic AI platform that automates the entire vulnerability lifecycle, from discovery to remediation, with autonomous agents that correlate data, contextualize assets and vulnerabilities, prioritize risks, and generate remediation plans. It differentiates itself by offering end-to-end automation combined with governance and an auditable action trail, integrating with existing vulnerability management, ticketing, and collaboration tools. The goal is to expand enterprise deployments, accelerate product development, and deliver scalable, automated risk reduction for cyber defense.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$53M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2024

Get referred to Cogent Security

See people who can refer or advise you

Simplify Jobs

Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • September 2026 Zero Day Response finds exposures within minutes, before scanner signatures.
  • February 2026 Series A raised $42 million, totaling $53 million for rapid enterprise expansion.
  • Cogent cites dozens of Fortune 1000 customers, including Alteryx and CSC Generation.

What critics are saying

  • CrowdStrike and Palo Alto shipped exposure-management automation in August 2026.
  • Autonomous remediation creates one bad agentic action away from outage, data loss, or trust collapse.
  • If VR-1 underperforms in production, Cogent becomes another pricey workflow wrapper.

What makes Cogent Security unique

  • September 2026 VR-1 targets attack-path proofing, not single-vulnerability detection.
  • Cogent’s harness enforces customer policy, audit logging, and controlled remediation actions.
  • Founders from Abnormal Security, Coinbase, and Google DeepMind bring rare execution credibility.

Help us improve and share your feedback! Did you find this helpful?

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off
  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Remote Work Options
  • Paid Vacation
  • Paid Sick Leave
  • Paid Holidays

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

-10%

1 year growth

-15%

2 year growth

-15%
PR Newswire
Oct 8th, 2026
Cogent launches AI-powered attack path analysis to counter rogue AI agent swarms

Cogent has launched Attack Path Analysis, a security tool using AI models to map routes attackers could take to reach an organisation's critical data and systems. The tool traces paths across cloud, on-premises, identity, and code infrastructure using data from existing security tools, then identifies single fixes that eliminate entire attack routes. The launch follows a July incident where roughly 700 AI agents attacked Hugging Face over four and a half days, executing over 17,600 actions to assemble a chain reaching 136 production keys. Cogent Research found that attack paths viable only for AI agents run at least twice as deep as those available to human attackers. The tool analyses vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, credentials, and permissions to identify routes attackers might exploit, working backwards from critical assets to find chokepoints where single changes can sever attack paths.

PR Newswire
Jul 27th, 2026
Cogent launches VR-1, first frontier AI model designed for cybersecurity tasks

Cogent has launched VR-1, which it describes as the first Mythos-class frontier AI model designed specifically for cybersecurity tasks. The company emphasises that whilst most frontier models can identify individual bugs in single codebases, real-world attacks typically exploit chains of minor weaknesses rather than isolated flaws. These attack chains might involve a public service exposing a vulnerability, excessive identity permissions, or unchecked artifacts in build pipelines. VR-1 aims to address this more complex, interconnected nature of cybersecurity threats by moving beyond single-bug detection to understand how multiple small weaknesses can combine to create significant security risks. The model represents Cogent's attempt to develop AI capabilities that better reflect actual attack patterns in production environments.

PR Newswire
May 27th, 2026
Cogent raises funding from Greylock and Bain to cut vulnerability response from 60 days to hours with AI

Cogent, an AI-native cybersecurity startup backed by Greylock Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, has launched Zero Day Response and Autonomous Remediation capabilities designed to compress vulnerability response from weeks to hours. The company aims to address the growing gap between exploit development and enterprise remediation as time to exploit has collapsed from nine months in 2022 to hours in 2026. Zero Day Response identifies vulnerabilities within minutes of public disclosure without waiting for scanner signatures, whilst Autonomous Remediation determines fixes, assesses business impact and confirms resolution. Cogent research found 62% of critical vulnerabilities had exploits circulating before scanner detection, with an average 5.1-day lag between CVE publication and scanner coverage. The platform has helped Fortune 500 security teams reduce exposure windows by 97%.

PR Newswire
Feb 18th, 2026
Cogent Security raises $42M Series A for autonomous AI agents tackling vulnerabilities

Cogent Security has raised $42 million in a Series A round led by Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from Greylock Partners and Definition. The financing brings total funding to $53 million, just six months after the company's launch in July 2025. The San Francisco-based startup deploys AI agents to automate cybersecurity remediation, addressing the growing gap between vulnerability discovery and fixing. Whilst attackers using AI can exploit new vulnerabilities within minutes, traditional security teams take days or weeks to coordinate fixes manually. Cogent's platform investigates vulnerabilities, determines system ownership, assesses risk and generates remediation steps, tracking fixes through to completion. Customers have reduced exposure windows for critical risks by an average of 97%. Founded by former executives from Abnormal Security and Coinbase, Cogent is already working with dozens of Fortune 1000 companies.

FinSMEs
Jul 15th, 2025
Cogent Security Raises $11M in Funding

Cogent Security, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an AI taskforce for vulnerability management, raised $11M in funding.