Cohesity is the leader in AI-powered data security. Over 13,600 enterprise customers, including over 85 of the Fortune 100 and nearly 70% of the Global 500, rely on Cohesity to strengthen their resilience while providing Gen AI insights into their vast amounts of data. Formed from the combination of Cohesity with Veritas’ enterprise data protection business, the company’s solutions secure and protect data on-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge. Backed by NVIDIA, IBM, HPE, Cisco, AWS, Google Cloud, and others, Cohesity is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, with offices around the globe.

We’ve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design , and our culture.

Want to join the leader in AI-powered data security?

Are you driven, high-reaching, and thrive in a collaborative environment? If so, Cohesity is looking for you! We are seeking a District Manager, who will have the unique opportunity to build and be responsible for an experienced sales team in a whitespace patch. This role will be responsible for developing and implementing Cohesity's sophisticated territory strategy, ensuring goals, objectives, and quotas are met by the sales teams. We are looking for someone with outstanding leadership skills, to be pivotal in recruiting and leading the direct sales management team, who will, in turn, optimize the recruitment, hiring, development, and performance of the sales team.

HOW YOU’LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE:

• Build and handle an expert sales team
• Craft Cohesity's commercial sales strategy to ensure both short and long term goals, objectives and quotas for the sales managers and their teams
• Recruit the direct sales management team and ensure, in turn, that these managers successfully recruit, hire, develop, and run a tiered sales team
• Maintain good balance between leading a team and customer interfacing calls
• Work closely with the extended sales team (including SE Manager, PSO Manager, Inside Sales Manager, Channel Manager, Recruiting, etc.) to generate new business opportunities

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

• 5+ years of sales management experience of 6 or more direct sales manager reports in a fast paced, highly competitive, ever-changing sales environment
• Confirmed ability to lead a horizontal, extended resource team to support the direct sales team
• Extensive experience directly and indirectly through a management team negotiating large 7 figure deals with very sophisticated terms, conditions, price pressures and considerations
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support decision making.
• Shown record working directly and indirectly through a management team with OEMs to build strategic and concerted sales campaigns together
• History of direct and indirect coordination with an internal set of multifunctional teams such as Systems Engineers, Inside Reps, Field Marketing, Professional Services, and Channel Management to ensure target quotas as achieved and exceeded Core Proficiencies
• Self-starter who takes initiative and works with limited direction
• Highly trusted individual who maintains and expects high standards for self and team
• Ability to travel 50%+ of the time

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In-Office Expectations

Cohesity employees who are within a reasonable commute (e.g. within a forty-five (45) minute average travel time) work out of our core offices 2-3 days a week of their choosing.