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title: 'Executive Assistant to the CEO at Cogent Security'
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# Executive Assistant to the CEO at Cogent Security

- **Company:** Cogent Security
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-10-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cogent-security/9f4dbe1e-1e54-4b76-a937-e58c62ea642f

## Job description

## 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. 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

## About the Role

We're hiring an Executive Assistant to the CEO to own the operations behind our CEO and Field CISO so their time goes where it has the most impact: customers, candidates, and building the company. You'll be their partner in running the week, planning ahead and keeping every commitment on track, with the trust to make calls on your own.

## What You'll Do

- Own calendar and email management for both executives end to end, from triaging inbound requests to protecting focus time across time zones
- Coordinate their weeks: prep for meetings and follow up on action items until they're done
- Run logistics for critical meetings, including candidate conversations with our CEO
- Host customers, investors, and candidates visiting our San Francisco office, and serve as the first point of contact for the CEO's office
- Handle the day-to-day logistics for leadership, including travel and team meals through Forkable
- Take on special projects as they come up, and expand your support to our founders and critical function leaders as the team grows

## What We're Looking For

- 7+ years of experience as an Executive Assistant, ideally supporting a CEO or founder
- Background at a venture-backed startup or a venture capital firm
- You've done this job before and can run on day one: you anticipate what the CEO needs and act on it before being asked
- Advanced calendar and inbox management, with the judgment to decide what gets time and what gets declined
- Strong project management skills - you keep several workstreams tracked and moving at once
- Poise with customers and executives, and comfort being the first person a Fortune 500 security leader meets at Cogent
- Discretion with confidential information

Bonus Points

- Experience supporting more than one executive at a time
- Experience coordinating recruiting logistics or candidate interviews
- Experience at a Series A-C company during a period of fast headcount growth

We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.

## About Cogent Security

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cogent Security is an applied AI lab building autonomous AI agents that discover, assess, and remediate enterprise vulnerabilities at machine speed.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed / Series A; $11M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Vineet Edupuganti (CEO), Geng Sng (CTO), Thanos Baskous (VP Engineering) [cogent.com/about-us](https://www.cogent.com/about-us)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cybersecurity – specifically vulnerability management and agentic AI for security remediation.
- **Target customers**: Enterprise cybersecurity teams (B2B, mid-market to large enterprises).
- **Mission**: “Prevent breaches using autonomous AI systems that continuously secure systems against AI-armed adversaries operating at machine speed.” [cogent.com](https://www.cogent.com/)

## Products & Services
- **[Cogent Platform]**: An AI-agent workforce that handles the full vulnerability lifecycle. Modules include **Discover** (identify vulnerable software within minutes of a disclosure), **Assess** (risk scoring based on business context), **Remediate** (from assisted to fully autonomous fix deployment), and **Report** (verified evidence-backed reporting). Type: SaaS platform with embedded AI agents. [cogent.com](https://www.cogent.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $11M – Seed round ($11M) led by Greylock Partners (August 2025); subsequent Series A led by Bain Capital Ventures with additional investors. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cogentsecurity)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Greylock Partners, Bain Capital Ventures. Customers include Alteryx (CISO Lucas Moody), CSC Generation (CEO Justin Yoshimura), University of the Pacific (CISO Mo Bal). [cogent.com/about-us](https://www.cogent.com/about-us)
- **Growth Signals**: 39 employees (as of mid-2025), +14% monthly headcount growth, 29 active job postings, reported 3x increase in vulnerability team output and 97% reduction in exposure window for critical vulnerabilities. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cogentsecurity)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Agentic AI approach** that not only detects but also investigates, coordinates, and verifies fixes – reducing the manual burden on security teams.
- **Founding team** from Google DeepMind, Abnormal Security, and Coinbase, bringing deep AI and security expertise.
- **Rapid time-to-value**: 3 hours from onboarding to full vulnerability assessment.
- **Strong customer satisfaction**: 4.9/5 rating from 1,200+ reviews. [cogent.com/about-us](https://www.cogent.com/about-us)

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling AI agent capabilities to cover more vulnerability types and integrate deeper into enterprise workflows.
- Expanding the commercial team (Sales, Solutions Engineering, TAMs) to capture growing demand.
- Advancing research through **Cogent Research**, tackling open problems in dependable autonomy and AI × security. [cogent.com](https://www.cogent.com/)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include customer centricity, intentionality, ambition for excellence, extreme ownership, velocity, and intellectual honesty. [cogent.com/company/careers](https://www.cogent.com/company/careers)
- **Remote/Hybrid**: In-person in San Francisco and New York, plus remote options within the US. [cogent.com/company/careers](https://www.cogent.com/company/careers)
- **Engineering Culture**: Engineers and AI researchers sit together; the distance from idea to production is measured in days. Emphasis on shipping production software, not just research.
- **Notable Perks**: 12-week AI Fellowship for graduate researchers and early-career ML engineers; team hails from top companies like Coinbase, Databricks, AWS, Zscaler, and HashiCorp. [cogent.com/company/careers](https://www.cogent.com/company/careers)
- **Growth Opportunity**: Rapidly scaling startup with significant funding, strong customer traction, and a mission-driven focus on one of cybersecurity’s hardest problems.

## Sources
1. [cogent.com](https://www.cogent.com/) – Company overview, product details, customer testimonials
2. [cogent.com/about-us](https://www.cogent.com/about-us) – Founders, mission, team background
3. [cogent.com/company/careers](https://www.cogent.com/company/careers) – Culture, remote policy, AI Fellowship, values
4. [linkedin.com/company/cogentsecurity](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cogentsecurity) – Employee count, funding, office locations, job postings
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/cogent-security](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cogent-security) – Active job openings
6. Pulse 2.0 (2025-07-16) – “Cogent Security: $11 Million Raised For AI Taskforce For Vulnerability Management”
7. FinSMEs (2025-07-15) – “Cogent Security Raises $11M in Funding”

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