Senior Manager, Business Transformation & Optimization (BT&O)

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. 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 Senior Manager, Business Transformation & Optimization (BT&O) contributes to Cohesity’s most complex, ambiguous, and highest-stakes cross-functional priorities end to end — from framing the problem with executive sponsors through to delivering measurable change that holds after the program closes. BT&O is a small, deliberately lean team of internal consultants chartered to lead the work the C-Suite cares most about, operating with direct visibility to executive leadership, and trusted with the problems that do not have an obvious owner or answer. Reporting to the Director, BT&O, this role reshapes how the company operates to enable scalability, competitive advantage, and long-term value creation. The BT&O team is tasked with the following types of initiatives: AI Proliferation, Business Process Optimization, Operating Model Changes, M&A Integration, Proof of Concept Development, Project Rescue, Value Delivery Reporting, and IPO Readiness.

HERE: Strategic Initiative Delivery • Lead discrete projects and workstreams within larger enterprise programs • Own initiatives end to end — framing the problem with the executive sponsor, translating it into a roadmap with defined outcomes, milestones, owners, and financial impact, and driving it through the functions to delivery. • Build and run the governance that keeps executives making decisions — working sessions, steering committee materials, decision logs, and pre-reads designed to force decisions rather than report status. • Land change durably — transition delivered work to a permanent owner with documentation, a running cadence, and clear accountability rather than leaving it dependent on BT&O. • Step into stalled or off-track initiatives, re-establish requirements, sponsorship, and a credible path forward, and restart delivery. • Stand up entirely new capabilities and ways of working where no precedent exists —defining the approach the first time it is done, then making it repeatable. Problem Solving & Operating Model Design • Analyze complex business problems, synthesize insights, and develop practical, decision-ready recommendations — maintaining analytical rigor even in imperfect-data environments. • Connect dots across the organization to surface interdependencies, risks, and structural inefficiencies, and bring structure, clarity, and forward momentum to ambiguous initiatives without waiting for direction. • Streamline and unify business processes and design the operating models and decision rights that make speed, consistency, and accountability stick. • Draw on a broad toolkit of methodologies and frameworks — with the judgment to combine, adapt, or discard them rather than apply a fixed playbook — and codify what works into reusable frameworks. • Build AI-enabled solutions directly — agents, automations, and working proofs of concept — to test ideas quickly, prove value before scaling, and remove manual effort without waiting on technical resourcing. • Lead the change