Director, Technical Product Management

The Basics

As Director of Product Management at Tanium, you will be responsible for the development and business success of Tanium products (modules) that are part of Tanium's security and IT operations portfolio. In this role, you will work with engineering, product, sales and marketing, technical account managers, and customers to ensure alignment of our overall product vision, product development, and ultimately, our go-to-market strategies, keeping in mind customer needs, satisfaction, and adoption.

 What you’ll do

• Take ownership of the strategy, growth, and success of Tanium products
• Identify and cultivate strategic customer relationships to obtain feedback on existing products, identify opportunities, and establish requirements for emerging products
• Assist in the development of sales and technical enablement materials
• Collaborate with sales leadership to establish the go-to market strategy for your products, target prospective customers, and exploit competitive differentiators for your products
• Support product marketing initiatives, partner relationships, and other opportunities to accelerate the adoption your products and to build Tanium’s brand
• Define strategic direction for your products and work with stakeholders, both internal and external, to achieve buy-in for your vision and their role in executing on it
• Collaborate with the product management team to identify new products that align with Tanium’s technology, strategic direction, and business imperatives

 We’re looking for someone with

•  Education
• BA required
• MA preferred
• Experience
  • 5+ years Enterprise Software experience
  • Technology background, preferably with security or systems management products
  • Demonstrated success in working with engineering teams to plan, develop and launch successful software products
• 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
  • Adept at understanding and navigating organizations in order to inspire and influence internal and external customers
  • 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 w/ 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. 

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.  

What you’ll get

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $115,000 to $350,000. This range is an estimate for what Tanium will pay a new hire. The actual annual base salary offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, location, education, skills, training, and experience.

In addition to an annual base salary, team members will receive equity awards and a generous benefits package consisting of medical, dental and vision plan, family planning benefits, health savings account, flexible spending account, transportation savings account, 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, life, accident and disability coverage, business travel accident insurance, employee assistance programs, disability insurance, and other well-being benefits.

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