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.

Join us on our mission to shape the future of our industry.

You will be an integral part of the Engineering organization. You will use release management best practices to drive predictability and quality into the execution and launch of Cohesity software to deliver world-class customer experiences. This will require cross-functional alignment across engineering teams, while keeping company-wide teams such as product management and technical support aligned. You will play a critical role in increasing our software delivery effectiveness and efficiency, using a metrics driven approach, driving accountability and improving our processes.

Job Duties :

Partner with product management and engineering to drive the requirements definition, release planning, execution and launch of our on-prem and cloud software releases with predictable schedules and high quality.
Bring cross-functional alignment across engineering teams while keeping company-wide go-to-market and new-product-introduction teams aligned.
Manage the payload of new features and bug fixes per release, to deliver high quality enterprise software for on-prem and cloud, per a train model.
Define, implement and monitor critical metrics through automated scorecards and dashboards. Draw conclusions to drive corrective actions and improvement.
Understand the technical issues to raise them and facilitate collaborative resolutions.
Foresee risks, develop mitigation plans and trigger contingency plans as necessary, using change management best practices.
Communicate the status, risks/issues and mitigation plans to a 360 audience, ranging from executives to engineers.
Use the best tools for the job at hand - Jira, Confluence, Asana, Tableau etc.

Own your sections in Release Roadmaps, Quarterly Business Reviews and Engineering Operational Reviews.
Conceive, take-on, execute and deliver process improvement initiatives that have demonstrable org-wide or company-wide impacts.

Qualifications:

Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience.
5+ years in engineering management, software release management or technical program management in a hi-tech company.
In-depth experience in software release planning/execution and predictable delivery of large software programs in an agile/hybrid environment that is globally spread out.
Solid analytical and problem solving skills; ability to think strategically.
Proven experience in automated dashboards and scorecards in Jira, Tableau or similar tools to drive operational effectiveness and efficiency.
Ability to make presentations and communicate to a 360 audience including executives.
Strong organizational skills as well as the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities, assignments and roles.
Must have a “what’s the right thing to do” mindset and be willing to roll up sleeves to get things done hands-on.
Must have a continuous improvement mindset, constantly looking for and taking on process improvement initiatives.

Disclosure Pursuant to Applicable State Equal Pay Transparency Laws - This position has a starting pay range as listed below. Actual salary depends upon many factors, including a candidate’s skills, qualifications and experience, location, and salary expectations, and therefore a starting salary at the low end, high end, or even above the stated range may be offered. This position may also be eligible for bonus compensation, commission (if in a sales function), and/or equity grants. Additionally, full-time employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits framework, including health and wellness benefits, vacation, paid holidays and refresh days, 401(k) retirement plan, life and disability insurance coverages, and other benefits the Company may offer from time to time.

US Pay Range

$189,176—$240,000 USD

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Cohesity is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. 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.

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In-Office Expectations

Cohesity employees who are within a reasonable commute (e.g. within a forty-five (45) minute average travel time) work out of our core offices 2-3 days a week of their choosing.

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