Cogent Security
Past Founder
$100K–$300K
San Francisco, CA +2 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York, NY
Remote, US - Experience
- Prior experience founding or co-founding and operating a venture-backed startup through its early stages; no number of years stated.
About the job
Own an end-to-end workstream at Cogent, applying prior startup operating experience to help build and scale autonomous AI agents for enterprise cybersecurity.
What you'll do
- Drive a critical initiative from idea through execution, such as a product area, customer segment, or go-to-market motion.
- Work with the founding team to prioritize problems and build processes and operational infrastructure for growth.
- Engage enterprise customers and security teams, apply their insights to product and positioning, and hire and develop a team as the workstream grows.
What they ask for
- Founded or co-founded a venture-backed startup and operated through its early stages, including building product, hiring, managing a board, and making high-stakes decisions.
- Alumni of a top accelerator such as Y Combinator, Techstars, or a similar program.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and taking ownership without direction.
Nice to have
- Founded or co-founded an AI-native company in cybersecurity or an adjacent domain.
- Experience raising venture capital, selling to or building for enterprise security teams, or scaling a team beyond its first hires; familiarity with vulnerability management, SIEM, SOAR, or adjacent security tooling.
Pay
$100,000 - $300,000 annually (base salary)
Tools
SIEM, SOAR
AI focus
Apply operating experience to work on autonomous AI agents that secure enterprise environments.
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