About Cogent Security

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 ML research labs like Deepmind and SAIL

About the Role

Cogent is building a world-class marketing team, and we're looking for smart, fast, exceptional people who are committed to our mission and bring a spark of creativity that sets us apart from traditional B2B marketing. As the founding communications leader, you'll own how Cogent shows up beyond our own channels: in the press, on podcasts and stages, with the creators and newsletters practitioners follow, and in the moments that define a company's reputation. Cogent has unusual raw material for a company this size: original research, Fortune 500 customers, and an engineering team drawn from the frontier AI labs. Your job is to turn that substance into steady coverage, a founder the market recognizes, and a reputation that helps us sell and hire. The AI security news cycle moves in hours, so this is a hands-on seat: you'll set the angles, run the agency, prep executives, and move fast when a story breaks.

What You'll Do

Media & Narrative

Own Cogent's earned media strategy: the angles, the story calendar, and the coverage plan for launches, research, and company milestones.

Run the PR agency: set its priorities, sharpen the pitches, and hold the bar on everything that goes out under Cogent's name.

Translate Cogent's work for two audiences at once: security practitioners who will test every claim, and business and AI press who need the stakes in one sentence.

Run rapid response. Watch the conversation across press, X, LinkedIn, and security communities, and when a breach, disclosure, or AI-security story breaks, get Cogent's take into the story while it's live. Content ships the POV piece; you get it cited.

Beyond the Press

Build Cogent's presence where security buyers and AI builders now pay attention: newsletters, podcasts, creators, and the handful of voices each community trusts.

Run creator and influencer partnerships that put Cogent's research and point of view in front of audiences we don't own. Content runs our channels; you get us into everyone else's.

Shape how the AI research community sees Cogent, so the engineers and researchers we want to hire already know the story. Partner with recruiting on the talent narrative.

Executive Visibility

Build the CEO's external presence: podcasts, conference stages, and press interviews that tie a founder to a category.

Build a spokesperson bench beyond the CEO, starting with the CTO and Cogent Research, and media-train each of them.

Book and prep every moment: secure the slot, write the briefing doc, and sharpen the message for the room.

Moments & Milestones

Own announcement strategy: funding, marquee customers, partnerships, research drops, and the awards worth winning. Sequence them so each builds on the last.

Partner with Product Marketing on launches: they own the product story and positioning, you own the coverage plan.

Write the playbook for hard moments before they arrive: a vulnerability in our own product, a customer breach, a competitor's attack. Security companies get tested on this, usually on short notice.