Senior Counsel, Product

The Basics:

Tanium is seeking an experienced attorney to join our growing legal team as a Senior Product Counsel. The right person for this position must be self-motivated, intellectually curious and willing to dig deep into the development of our products to become a trusted advisor for engineering and product management. We need a team player who is comfortable working across the organization and has a pragmatic approach to problem solving. 

What you’ll do:

• Provide practical legal advice and counseling on a full range of product-related issues that arise domestically and internationally 
• Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering and Strategy teams through the entire product lifecycle to identify issues, recommend practical solutions, and assist cross-functional efforts to achieve go-to-market goals 
• Develop and enhance processes designed to ensure on-going product compliance with global laws and regulations in a variety of subject areas, including privacy, data security, artificial intelligence, regulated industries, export control and trade compliance 
• Participating in the design and build process to help evaluate external technologies, including negotiating inbound license agreements and participating in the company’s open source review process 
• Support product marketings efforts, including reviewing and approving various marketing collateral 
• Serve as a subject matter expert in our products for the Contracts and Legal teams and assist with contract negotiations, RFPs, product data sheets, and other questions as they arise 
• Manage patent and trademark portfolio, including coordination with engineering, product management and marketing departments and managing outside counsel 

We’re looking for someone with:

Minimum 

• JD from an accredited institution 
• Active and in good standing in at least one state bar 
• At least 7 years of relevant experience 

Preferred  

• 2-3 years’ experience in a top-tier law firm 
• At least 5 years’ experience working in-house in the software industry, with experience in enterprise cloud computing especially helpful 
• Exceptionally good communication skills  
• Proven ability to work independently as well as part of a tightly-knit legal team 
• Ability to work cross-functionally within an organization to build consensus and achieve strategic goals as well as the ability to enforce legal requirements without alienating clients 
• Solid understand of privacy laws and how they affect product development 
• Experience working with engineering teams on patent harvesting and prosecution 

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 $130,000 - $385,000. 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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