Past Founder

About the role

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 & Bain Capital Ventures, 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. We're hiring a Past Founder to own high-impact work across Cogent. You've built a venture-backed company before. You've raised capital, shipped product, hired a team, and made hard calls without a playbook. We want that operating experience applied to what we're building: autonomous AI agents that secure enterprise environments. This role is scoped to your strengths. Whether your background leans product, engineering, GTM, or operations, you'll own a workstream end-to-end and work directly with our founding team.

Responsibilities

• Own critical initiatives end-to-end - a new product area, a customer segment, or a go-to-market motion - and drive it from idea through execution
• Work directly with our founding team to identify the highest-priority problems and decide how we solve them
• Build the systems that let Cogent scale: processes, playbooks, and operational infrastructure that make the next phase of growth possible
• Spend time with enterprise customers and their security teams, and bring those insights into how we build and position our product
• Hire and develop a team around your workstream as the scope