Jobs at Cogent Security

Owns high-impact initiatives across product, go-to-market, customer, and operations functions. The role partners with the founding team to identify priorities, execute workstreams end-to-end, build scalable processes, engage enterprise security customers, and hire and develop teams. Candidates must have founded or co-founded a venture-backed startup, raised capital, built products, hired teams, and operated effectively in ambiguous, high-growth environments.

Build and own Cogent’s IT function across endpoints, identity and access management, SaaS vendors, office infrastructure, and end-user support. The role includes device provisioning, MDM, SSO, MFA, automation using Python and workflow tools, AI tool governance, documentation, and secure self-service workflows. This hands-on, in-person role supports San Francisco, New York, and remote employees while establishing scalable IT processes and security controls.

Own the full lifecycle of enterprise cybersecurity accounts, from deployment planning and integrations through adoption, renewal, and expansion. Serve as the primary technical contact for security, engineering, and IT stakeholders. Guide vulnerability management workflows, cloud and scanning-tool integrations, remediation prioritization, and compliance reporting. Translate customer feedback into product improvements and create scalable onboarding playbooks.

Build and optimize B2B digital demand programs across paid media, landing pages, webinars, nurture, conversion paths, and campaign operations. Own audience activation, attribution, reporting, and pipeline performance while partnering with Growth, Sales, Content, Product Marketing, RevOps, and agencies. Use AI and automation to accelerate campaign development, creative production, analysis, and workflow execution for a cybersecurity-focused company.

Build and own the company’s accounting function, including the general ledger, monthly close, accounts payable, vendor payments, invoicing, collections, tax, and compliance. Establish close calendars, reporting structures, reconciliations, policies, and internal controls; support the first financial statement audit and ERP selection. The role begins hands-on with contractor support and may grow into managing an accounting team while applying AI tools to accounting workflows.

Own the company’s five-year operating model, planning and forecasting processes, headcount plans, three-statement forecasts, SaaS metrics, sales capacity modeling, pipeline analytics, commission design, dashboards, and board materials. Partner with executives and GTM leadership on strategic finance decisions, pricing, packaging, and reporting. The role suits candidates transitioning from investment banking or management consulting into an operating company and offers growth into leading strategic finance.

Partner with founders and leaders on strategic and operational initiatives, support AI research operations and partnerships, build the QA function, and own product operations by translating customer needs into specifications and managing the ticket pipeline. The role is a high-ownership generalist position requiring strong analytical, communication, judgment, and cross-functional collaboration skills in a fast-moving startup environment.

As a Research Scientist at Cogent, you will conduct high-impact research in AI-driven code analysis and automated reasoning, publish findings, and collaborate with product teams.

Supports pipeline reviews, forecasting, revenue reporting, CRM hygiene, and sales process discipline. Maintains HubSpot data quality, builds dashboards and workflows, analyzes funnel performance, and creates operating assets for pipeline reviews, QBRs, and leadership reporting. Partners with Sales, Finance, Demand Generation, Enablement, and GTM Engineering to improve data accuracy, automate workflows, reduce administrative work, and provide actionable insights for revenue execution.

As an AI Research Engineer, you'll conduct research in AI and automated reasoning, creating innovative solutions, testing systems, and contributing to scientific publications while collaborating with engineering teams.

Own product security across the SDLC: threat modeling, secure design reviews, application security testing (code review, SAST/DAST), supply-chain/dependency hardening, CI/CD security, and building automated security tooling and guardrails while partnering with engineering and product.

Lead end-to-end pipeline generation across field, channel, digital, partner, and SDR teams. Build and scale demand programs (ABM, outbound, events, inbound, paid), define lead-to-SQL model, track funnel metrics, partner with Sales/RevOps/Finance/Partnerships, and run weekly optimization loops. Hire and develop a demand team and launch integrated plays to scale qualified enterprise pipeline.

Manage day-to-day operations across workplace (SF & NY), people operations (recruiting coordination, onboarding, legal/immigration coordination, Founder Academy), events (concept to execution), and special projects with founders and Head of BizOps. Drive cross-functional initiatives, vendor and landlord relationships, swag and off-sites, and process automations using AI tools and scripts.

Manage day-to-day operations of the San Francisco office and coordinate logistics for the New York office. Oversee move-ins/outs, vendor relationships, supplies, shipping, visitor check-in, onboarding logistics, offsite planning, and employee experience programs. Act as primary office contact across teams and locations to ensure smooth operations.

Design and scope vulnerability management solutions for enterprise customers, translate customer environments into implementation plans, write actionable tickets for engineering, own technical relationships during deployments, and create repeatable scoping practices to reduce forward-deployed engineering.

Drive technical sales cycles from scoping to implementation, translating complex security requirements into demos and proposals, and collaborating with various teams.

Lead Cogent's organic social strategy and content production. Collaborate with leadership to create impactful narratives and manage influencer relationships.

As the Director of Product Marketing, you will define messaging, positioning, and sales enablement for Cogent's AI-driven cybersecurity solutions, targeting and engaging enterprise buyers effectively.

As a Regional Sales Manager, you will lead enterprise sales initiatives, manage complex sales cycles, and build strategic partnerships in cybersecurity.

Build and scale backend services and integrations for autonomous AI agents. Design distributed, stateless and stateful systems, APIs, and infrastructure for reliability, security, and enterprise integration. Drive scalability, CI/CD, container orchestration, multi-cloud deployments, and mentor growing engineering teams.