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Senior Product Manager, Artificial Intelligence (AI) | Santa Clara, CA - USA (Of

Cohesity Inc., Dallas, TX, United States


Senior Product Manager, Artificial Intelligence (AI) 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.

Requirements Current residence in the SF Bay Area Hybrid working arrangement (onsite 2-3 days per week) in Santa Clara, CA 5+ years of Product Management experience with

Enterprise Products 2+ years of AI experience, including

generative & agentic AI, LLMs, and RAG

Are you passionate about shaping the future of AI-powered data management and unlocking the full potential of enterprise data?

Overview Cohesity is seeking a visionary Product Manager for Gaia, our pioneering AI platform that combines generative AI with your organization’s most valuable data. Cohesity’s vision is to empower enterprises to not only secure and protect their data, but also to extract actionable insights at unprecedented speed and scale—transforming how organizations make decisions and drive business outcomes. By leveraging advanced AI techniques, semantic indexing, and intuitive visualization tools, Gaia enables users to explore, understand, and interact with data across a wide range of sources, including emails, documents, and cloud environments.

At Cohesity, product management plays a central role in driving product development by working in close collaboration with our engineering, data science, and go‑to‑market teams. Our team works across all levels of the organization, engaging with executive stakeholders, directly with customers across the globe, and interacting heavily with our user experience team. You’ll do your best work at Cohesity with an incredibly talented team!

We’re looking for a visionary Product Manager – AI to drive the development of AI-powered experiences that redefine how enterprises interact with and secure their data. You’ll work on next‑gen solutions in LLM usability, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), agentic workflows, and scalable operational insights — tackling some of the most complex and unsolved problems in AI and enterprise software.

This is a pivotal position that will help shape Cohesity’s overall AI strategy and roadmap across both its traditional customer‑managed platforms and Cohesity’s cloud‑based SaaS platforms, serving Cohesity’s ever‑expanding list of enterprise customers across different verticals and geographies.

How You’ll Spend Your Time Here

Own the lifecycle of product initiatives from inception to launch

Learn how to actually make LLMs useful for complex knowledge management

Tackle unsolved AI product and engineering problems — user experiences for Retrieval Augmented Generation, Agentic Workflows, operational insights over huge TB datasets

Gather feedback from strategic customers to inform product direction

Define disrupting business models, pricing packages, & other commercial standards

Work closely with our CTO office, Executives, Legal and Engineering teams

Help steer the growth of our product & engineering organization

We’d Love to Talk To You If You Have Many Of The Following

5-7 years of experience in product management and/or software engineering

Technical background with a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Deep understanding of AI/ML technologies, especially LLMs, vector search, data catalog and intelligent agents

Experience in a B2B / commercial environment

Demonstrated ability to ship world-class enterprise software products

Big picture thinking while still delivering on the details

Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support decision making

Ability to use both qualitative and quantitative reasoning to communicate your ideas reasoning

Ability to navigate extreme ambiguity to deliver on outcomes

Desire to do whatever it takes to make the team successful — whether that’s doing support, testing new algorithm changes, or cleaning up tickets

Nice to Have

Background or experience in Retrieval augmented generation (RAG)

Familiarity with large‑scale data infrastructure and observability tools

Previous work on AI products in highly regulated or security‑sensitive industries

Pay Range $189,000.00-$210,000.00

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

Benefits

Healthcare coverage for you and your family

Paid parental leave

Flexible paid time off

Additional company‑wide days off throughout the year

A robust wellness program

Continuous learning opportunities

And a competitive salary and additional benefits package

Legal & Compliance 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity 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.

Scam Alert Cohesity has received reports of scams where individuals purporting to be Cohesity HR representatives or even our CEO conduct bogus “employment interviews” via email or text, and then request payment as a condition for receiving an offer of employment. Please be aware that Cohesity and its subsidiaries do not conduct interviews by email or text, and will never request payment as a condition for applying for a position or receiving an offer of employment. These scam operators may also ask for your personal information (name, address, birthdate, social security number, etc.) which you should not provide to them. If you have been a target of such a scam, you should report it by contacting the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (see this FTC posting for further details: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams).

Notice to External Recruiters and Staffing Agencies Cohesity does not accept unsolicited resumes from external recruiters or staffing agencies. Any submission of an unsolicited resume to our resume database, directly to Cohesity hiring managers, or by other means will be considered gratuitous and no recruiting fee will be paid if an unsolicited candidate from a third‑party recruiter is subsequently hired. Fees will be paid only where an external recruiter has an executed service contract in place with Cohesity and resumes have been solicited by our Talent Acquisition team in connection to a specific job opening.

Life at Cohesity Want to learn more about Life at Cohesity and our RADIO Values? Read more from our employees here.

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At Cohesity, we work hard and move fast—and we’re not afraid to push boundaries to deliver exceptional work. We value integrity and respect, and here’s what we promise: We’ll give you the tools to be successful and welcome you into a culture that celebrates individual contributions and collective success. We’ll empower you to grow, offer continuous learning opportunities, and surround you with ambitious, collaborative colleagues.

We strive to have a parity of benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our employees (and their families) is the right thing to do.

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