Learning & Talent Director

About this role

We strongly prefer candidates who are currently located in or near the designated job location. Candidates outside the area should apply only if they are committed to relocating prior to their start date and have the legal 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 are a senior   talent,   learning and organizational development practitioner who   builds and directs high-performing teams while   operat ing   at the intersection of human capability, business strategy, and emerging technology. You   don't   just design programs — you   set   strategy, develop talent,   and build the right intervention for the moment, whether   that's   a learning experience, a team effectiveness engagement, a capability framework, or something that   doesn't   yet have a name. At Cohesity,   you'll     shape   how   we build   the human and organizational capability needed to compete and win in an AI-powered world.    

HOW YOU'LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE:

Leadership and Manager Effectiveness:   You will 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  

AI Enablement Strategy:   You will be 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  

Organizational Effectiveness and Integration:   You will 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  

Strategic Business Partnerships:   You will   operate   as the principal L&D and OD advisor to key functions including Engineering, Finance, Operations, and   IT   the kind of senior counsel that executives seek out proactively because the relationship consistently generates business impact.  

• 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  

Learning Technology and Ecosystem:   You will 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  

WE'D LOVE TO TALK TO YOU IF YOU HAVE MANY OF THE FOLLOWING:

Rather than years-of-service requirements, here is what readiness looks like for this role:  

• P rogressive experience in Learning & Development, Organizational Development

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