Director, Product Management - Platform

Company: Tanium
Location: Durham
Posted on: June 1, 2025

Job Description:

The BasicsOur Product Management team is actively seeking a Director, Product Management for Platform, to join our passionate, driven and fast-paced team. In this role you will bring your in-depth knowledge of Enterprise SaaS platform product development to provide a trusted, reliable, and extensible platform for Tanium's security and operations solutions. You will own and maintain the product strategy from ideation to launch of Tanium's platform, appliance and cloud products in partnership with our engineering and go to market teams. Your contributions will directly enhance Tanium's ability to deliver cutting-edge security and operations solutions, ensuring our platform remains at the forefront of industry innovation.A successful candidate will be a strong communicator who can bring their industry expertise to drive vision and development cross-functionally across all levels of the organization. Must have a successful track record of working with stakeholders on new products.What you'll do

• Develop and execute on Tanium's Platform and SaaS hosting strategy
• Own the delivery of the product roadmap from ideation to launch in partnership with the engineering teams
• Mentor, enable, and lead a focused team of product managers
• Identify new market and partnership opportunities
• Document customer use cases, product requirements, and business justifications for new feature development
• Partner with internal teams on development of appropriate materials to ensure successful enablement and training on new features and updates
• Support product marketing initiatives, partner relationships, and other opportunities to accelerate the adoption of your products and to build Tanium's brand
• Work closely with the business and technical teams to find solutions to daily challenges
• Leverage innovation and trends in the marketplace to develop strategic solutions.
• Establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure product success and drive continuous improvement.We're looking for someone withEducation
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • Master's preferredExperience
    • 5 - 7 years of product management experience within an enterprise B2B environment supporting a SaaS solution or equivalent experience with demonstrated ability to discover opportunities, and then define and deliver products
    • 4+ years of experience in SaaS Enterprise Platform product management, or similar fields
    • 2+ years of experience leading and mentoring a team of product managers
    • Strong understanding of SaaS Platforms and technologies with experience in Azure and AWS
    • Familiarity with Windows, Linux, and MacOS is desired. Experience with AIX or Solaris is a plus
    • Experience with an on-premises virtual or hardware appliance is a plus
    • Strong track record of working with business stakeholders to drive definition and alignment, strong communication and influencing skills, project management skills, and strong time management skillsOther
      • 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 ambiguityAbout TaniumTanium delivers the industry's only true real-time cloud-based endpoint management and security offering. Its platform is real-time, seamless, and autonomous, allowing security-conscious organizations to break down silos between IT and Security operations that results in reduced complexity, cost, and risk. Securing more than 32M endpoints around the world, Tanium's customers include Fortune 100 organizations, top US retailers, top US commercial banks, and branches of the U.S. Military. It also partners with the world's biggest technology companies, system integrators, and managed service providers to help customers realize the full potential of their IT investments. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for nine consecutive years and ranks on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information on The Power of Certainty, visit and follow us on and .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 getThe annual base salary range for this full-time position is $135,000 to $405,000. 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.For more information on how Tanium processes your personal data, please see our .
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