Director, Product Management

The Basics: 

As a Director, Product Management at Tanium, you will serve as a voice of the customer to engineering in understanding and prioritizing development efforts for Tanium products. In this role, you will work cross-functionally with engineering, technical account managers, subject matter experts, and the product management teams to ensure smooth development and maintenance of said product(s). 

What you’ll do: 

• Participate in creating, managing, prioritizing, and communicating technical product roadmap, and backlog items
• Collaborate with product management to define the strategic short and long term roadmap
• Work with the product management, user experience, development, and quality assurance teams to deliver on an agreed-upon roadmap
• Work with a remote, cross-functional, and globally distributed team as part of the agile development process
• Work with product management, customer support, technical writers, and product marketing to provide input into implementation guides, whitepapers, and community knowledge articles
• Actively participate in research and development (R&D), prototyping, proof of concepts, and building environments for internal and external product demos and testing
• Assess and address technical risks
• Work with enablement teams (SME, TSE, etc.) to ensure the appropriate materials are provided to ensure successful enablement/training on new features and updates
• Document technical specifications, use cases, requirements, and detailed user interface mockups and the underlying business logic
• Come up with product metrics to measure the success and quality of our products
• Monitor and measure the success of launched features to maintain a tight learning loop, leveraging both qualitative and quantitative data to continually inform the product development process
• Build relationships across the organization and facilitate communication between cross-divisional groups to ensure our tooling and processes are driving product improvement 
• Develop and maintain the role of a “trusted advisor” with product leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to drive long-term impact
• Participate in the full product enhancement lifecycle, from requirements gathering and prioritization of enhancement requests through design and oversight of implementation
• Bring strong awareness and knowledge of direct competitors to ensure that Tanium’s products offerings are leaders in their respective landscape
• Able to conduct capability analysis on a regular basis
• Collaborate closely with other Product Managers to ensure alignment across teams, understanding priorities and inter-dependencies across various initiatives

We’re looking for someone with: 

 Experience 

• Bachelor's Degree (Operations Research, Computer Science, Data Science, or similar) or equivalent work experience
• Technology background, preferably with security, systems management, IT asset or operations management products

Qualifications 

• Technically savvy, has exposure to software development, and system integration
• Ability to identify and mitigate development and implementation risks
• Ability to think big and influence across all levels of an organization 
• Ability to work independently and as a part of cross-functional and multidisciplinary teams
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize deadlines
• Ability to perform business requirements analysis and design 
• Experience using OKRs to drive product outcomes  

Other 

• Align with the Tanium values: we win as a team, we do the right thing, and we are unstoppable 
• Intuition to identify greenfield (or neglected) markets that align with Tanium’s platform and present opportunities for rapid growth 
• Willingness to take on firmly-entrenched competitors with creative approaches to technology, and tenacious pursuit to build and grow a product’s customer base 
• Ability to establish and nurture strong customer champions for a product that can serve as its advocates and its advisory board 
• Strong written communication, verbal communication and presentation skills 
• Ability to manage priorities in a fast-moving environment 
• Adept at understanding and navigating organizations in order to inspire and influence internal and external customers 
• Proficient in developing and conducting presentations at all levels
• Grit; ability to deal with and overcome challenges and ability to deal with ambiguity 
• Do-what-it-takes approach; willingness to get your hands dirty 
• Entrepreneurial spirit who is never satisfied with 2nd place 

About Tanium 

Tanium, the industry’s only provider of converged endpoint management (XEM), leads the paradigm shift in legacy approaches to managing complex security and technology environments. Only Tanium protects every team, endpoint, and workflow from cyber threats by integrating IT, Operations, Security, and Risk into a single platform that delivers comprehensive visibility across devices, a unified set of controls, and a common taxonomy for a single shared purpose: to protect critical information and infrastructure at scale. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for six consecutive years and ranks on Fortune’s list of the Best Large Workplaces in Technology. In fact, more than half of the Fortune 100 and the U.S. armed forces trust Tanium to protect people; defend data; secure systems; and see and control every endpoint, team, and workflow everywhere. That’s the power of certainty. Visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

On a mission. Together. 

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.   

We are an organization with stakeholders around the world and it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things. 

Taking Care of Our Team Members 

Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.   

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