Senior Community Manager

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.

Weve 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.

This is a rare opportunity for a senior community leader to own and transform how Cohesity builds and activates its practitioner community in the enterprise data security and management space. You will define the community strategy build a world-class technology champions advocacy program and drive cross-functional alignment across Product Marketing and Customer Success.

This role is for someone who is already a recognized voice in the industry a blogger influencer and practitioner with deep roots in the enterprise data security ecosystem and a proven track record of scaling communities that deliver real business outcomes.

Build and Scale the Community Program

• Own the end-to-end community strategy growth engagement and advocacy aligned to business needs across core geographies and key verticals.
• Build and scale a structured technology champions program of advocates
• Convert engaged customers and practitioners into active advocates driving peer influence product feedback and retention.

Drive Cross-Functional Alignment

• Align with Product Marketing and Customer Success to embed community insights into business decisions and connect the program to product launches and thought leadership moments.
• Build feedback loops across Sales Field and Partner teams that tie community activity to pipeline and GRR impact.

Deploy AI to Power the Community

• Design and build AI-powered bots and automation to enhance community experience.
• Use AI tools to scale content production personalize member experiences and surface community insights that inform product and marketing decisions.
• Stay current on emerging AI community tools and continuously explore new ways to automate engagement reduce friction and improve program efficiency.

Measure and Grow

• Own measurable outcomes: community membership growth engagement customer retention (GRR) and advocacy program participation.
• Use data to continuously improve program design content strategy and champion engagement reporting with clarity to senior stakeholders.

• Established influencer presence in enterprise data security and/or data management with a strong portfolio of published thought leadership and a recognized following.
• Proven track record as a voice and industry influencer active at events webinars podcasts and/or professional forums in the enterprise data security space.
• Experience building and scaling advocacy or Champions programs with direct accountability to retention and engagement outcomes.
• Strong cross-functional influence able to align Product Marketing and Customer Success around a shared community strategy.
• Deep subject matter knowledge in enterprise data security data governance or compliance.
• Active relationships with practitioners bloggers podcast hosts and community leaders in the enterprise data security ecosystem.
• Hands-on experience building or deploying AI bots and automation within community platforms.

• Track record of standing up a new community program from scratch membership model engagement mechanics and growth playbook.
• Speaker panelist or contributor at major industry conferences in data security data protection or cloud infrastructure.
• Experience using AI tools to scale content production community engagement or analytics workflows.

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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 candidates 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 ourcomprehensive 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.

The compensation noted above is based on an annualized hourly rate assuming normal full-time employment.

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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.

Interested candidates based outside of the designated areas are welcome to apply provided they have the right to work in the job location.