Senior Director, Talent and Growth

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Interested candidates based outside of the designated areas are welcome to apply, provided they have the indefinite right to work in the job location. 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 lead Cohesity's end-to-end talent and capability strategy - connecting leadership expectations, performance, development, and workforce transformation into a single, integrated system. You will define how we build leaders, measure performance, develop talent, and enable internal mobility, ensuring our talent strategy is AI-native, skills-based, and directly aligned to business outcomes. You lead a team across talent management, L&D, and organizational development, and serve as a strategic partner to executive leadership - moving fluently from strategy to execution and raising the bar on execution discipline, measurement, and talent outcomes. HOW YOU'LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE: Define Cohesity's Leadership Operating Model: You will establish the leadership behaviors that define what great looks like at Cohesity , embed across the talent lifecycle and drive consistency and accountability in how leadership is assessed and rewarded. Modernize Performance: You will redesign the performance system to be AI- native , continuous , data- driven and insight-led . Integrate leadership behaviors throughout the performance system: Performance assessments Scorecards DPs and promotion decisions Launch and scale AI-assisted goal creation , performance feedback and review Equip and train managers and People Partners Lead Talent Reviews, Succession, and Promotions: You will own and enable the enterprise talent review, succession planning , and promotion processes with rigor and consistency. Design the enterprise talent review processes and deliver in partnership with People Partners and business stakeholders Ensure clear standards, strong calibration, and data-driven decisions Build a Skills-Based Talent System & Internal Mobility Strategy: You will define and implement the skills-based talent architecture and the frameworks that move talent across the company. Build a skills-based talent architecture Design and scale internal mobility frameworks Align skills, roles, and career pathways to evolving business needs Enable leaders to make better talent decisions through skills and data Activate Leadership, Learning & O rg Development: You will lead a team that own s leadership development, learning and organizational development experiences that build capability across Cohesity - from manager effectiveness and cohort programs to team effectiveness, learning platforms, and AI enablement. Partner with senior leaders and People Partners as the Leadership and Talent thought partner s - diagnosing needs and developing, delivering, and facilitating learning and capability building aligned to business needs, priorities and succession pipelines Run capability-building cohorts across the manager and leadership pipeline from aspiring leaders, new managers, manager forums and executive development L ead a portfolio of high-impact career and high-potential development experiences (i.e., mentoring, coaching, external development opportunities ) Design and deliver company-wide learning campaigns and s teward the learning technology ecosystem to deliver modern, scalable learning to a distributed global workforce Lead the learning side of AI enablement - building the capability frameworks, learning journeys, and adoption campaigns that move employees to confident, productive use of AI tools WE'D LOVE TO TALK TO YOU IF YOU HAVE MANY OF THE FOLLOWING: Core Skills Enterprise talent leadership - a proven leader across talent management, performance, L&D and org development at enterprise scale, with a track record of leading and elevating a multi-disciplinary talent function Strategy-to-execution operator - a strong operator who can move fluently from talent strategy to execution, bringing rigor, execution discipline, and structure to complex, high-stakes bodies of work P erformance and talent systems modernization -experience modernizing performance and talent systems, making them continuous, insight-led, and tightly connected to development and promotion decisions AI-native design - able to embed AI across talent and performance - from AI-assisted goal creation to insight-driven assessmen

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