Senior Director, Talent and Growth

Cohesity

Lead Cohesity's end-to-end talent and capability strategy for a team enhancing data security and management. Redefine leadership behaviors and performance across the organization.

Posted 6/12/2026full-timeRemote • Arizona, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $189,760 - $237,200 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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, Development Plans 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 & Organizational Development: You will lead a team that owns 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 partners — 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
Lead 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 steward 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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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
Performance 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 assessment — to make the talent system faster, more consistent, and more useful to leaders
Executive influence and credibility — highly credible with senior leaders and comfortable influencing at the executive level, partnering across the People Leadership Team, People Partners, and business stakeholders to drive alignment and outcomes
Partnership and co-creation — builds solutions with People Partners, business leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders rather than delivering top-down mandates, creating shared ownership and durable adoption of talent and performance initiatives
Capability translation — demonstrated ability to convert strategic business priorities into targeted talent interventions across learning, organizational development, and team effectiveness
Measurement and business impact — ability to define program success metrics and build dashboards and analytics that show efficiency, cycle time, adoption, quality, and employee experience so leaders can make clear decisions

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health and wellness benefits
Vacation
Paid holidays
Refresh days
401(k) retirement plan
Life and disability insurance coverages
Other benefits the Company may offer from time to time

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Hard Skills & Tools

performance system modernizationAI-native designdata-driven decision makingtalent managementorganizational developmentlearning and developmentskills-based talent architecturecapability frameworksanalytics and dashboardsgoal creation

Soft Skills

executive influencepartnership and co-creationstrategic thinkingcommunicationcollaborationleadershipproblem-solvingadaptabilitycoachingmentoring