People Partner Director

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.

The People Partner Director (HR Business Partner) will enable business success, amplify our culture, and increase organizational effectiveness through Cohesity’s People Strategy. This role will support Product Management and Engineering teams, reporting to the Sr. Director, People Partner - R&D. 

HOW YOU’LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE:

• Strategic partner/trusted advisor to key executives and their organizations. Works closely with senior executives and their leadership teams to define and execute business strategies that enable growth and transformation. 

• Defining and executing strategic global HR solutions.

• Lead management in organizational assessment and diagnosis to revise business strategies into actions that deliver results. 

• Driving a high-performance culture across the organizations you support.

• Establishing a deep understanding of Cohesity’s overall business and strategy.  

• Driving organizational design, workforce planning, succession planning, and talent initiatives to identify and execute against current and future talent needs. 

• Leading organizational change efforts.

• Engage as a consultant and coach to key leaders and their respective organizations while translating business needs into People plans and initiatives. 

• Driving efforts to build upon our culture, values, and overall employee experience.

• Being proactive with people managers and leaders to ensure we are building high-performing organizations.   

• Becoming a “business first, HR second” HR professional - using HR skills, programs, and initiatives to engage with the business.

• Working and leading with peer People and Places HR leaders to provide a “global, then local” approach to organization opportunities and initiatives. 

• Delivering all HR programs such as performance assessments, promotions, succession planning, and employee engagement plans with Excellence and global consistency.

• Leading with data and metrics to guide decision-making.

• Understanding what change management needs to look like to work with and guide people managers.

• Partner with other functions, including Finance, Legal, and HR Centers of Excellence, to develop value-added solutions.

• Partner with functional and regional counterparts to influence global strategic alignment.

• Analyzing business and employee insights and metrics to drive system improvements.

• Driving and at times leading company-wide talent initiatives, collaborating for global success at Cohesity.

• Cultivating and maintaining deep and broad connections throughout the organization to inform a well-rounded, timely, thoughtful perspective on the organization and culture.

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

• BA/BS or equivalent plus 10-12 years of relevant People Partner experience, with a strong preference supporting technical teams

• Strong cross-functional partnerships and interpersonal communication skills; ability to communicate with senior leaders, including executive leadership. 

• A can-do attitude, agility in navigating changes, and the ability to roll up your sleeves in a dynamic and very fast-paced environment. No job should be too large or too small. 

• Seeks, collects, and synthesizes information from a variety of stakeholders and data sources in an objective, unbiased manner to raise awareness a