Business Operations & Strategy
Cogent Security · San Francisco, California
- Location
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Employment
- Full time
- Posted
- 25 August
About this role
About Cogent
Cogent is an Applied AI Lab building the next generation of AI agents for cybersecurity. AI has fundamentally changed how attacks happen, allowing malicious actors to operate at unprecedented speed and scale. Cogent’s "AI Taskforce" assesses petabytes of enterprise data to remediate these issues before critical breaches occur.
To stay at the cutting edge, we blend frontier research with real-world execution. Alongside our core product work, Cogent Research serves as our applied AI lab, providing the research horsepower needed to make truly agentic security workflows a reality.
Since coming out of stealth, Cogent has experienced rapid growth. We partner with Fortune 500 companies to secure some of the most complex production environments in the world.
We’re backed by Greylock and we’ve built a team with the best minds in applied AI. Our team is comprised of people from:
Top universities like Stanford, Berkeley, Penn, Duke, Carnegie Mellon, Waterloo
Unicorn, high-growth companies like Scale AI, Databricks, Stripe, Tesla, Coinbase
World class cybersecurity experts from Wiz, Abnormal AI, Zscaler
Preeminent research labs like Deepmind and SAIL
About the Role
As a Business Operations Associate, you’ll operate as a true generalist working directly with company leadership on the most important problems facing the business at any given time.
This is a highly dynamic, high-ownership role. One quarter you might be focused on operational reviews, the next on talent initiatives or building Cogent’s external presence. The common thread is: you’ll work on whatever matters most to moving the company forward.
The role offers rare exposure to how a category-defining company is built end to end, making it a strong fit for someone excited by company-building and long-term leadership growth.
What You’ll Do
Partner with founders and company leaders to drive high-priority strategic and operational initiatives
Drive the operational engine behind our research initiatives, including standing up strategic partnerships to create benchmarks and RL environments
Stand up our QA function from the ground up
Own product operations: translate customer requirements into buildable specs and manage the ticket pipeline between pre and post sales asks
Step into new strategic priorities as they emerge, taking ownership and driving them to impact
About You
2+ years of experience in consulting, investment banking, product management, or early-stage startup / founder roles
Highly comfortable operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments with minimal structure
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, paired with excellent judgment
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
Strong relationship-builder who works well across technical and non-technical teams
High ownership mindset with a bias towards action
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About Cogent Security
Cogent is an applied AI lab building AI systems for enterprise cybersecurity teams. We focus on cybersecurity because it affects everyone - the reliability of the services we use, the privacy of our data, and the safety of the organizations we depend on. Our mission is to prevent breaches using autonomous AI systems that continuously secure systems against AI-armed adversaries operating at machine speed. Founded by researchers and operators from Google DeepMind, Abnormal Security, and Coinbase. Backed by Greylock Partners.
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