What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Product Management - Security Operations position at Tanium?
The Basics
Our Product Management team is actively seeking a Director of Product Management for Security Operations to join our passionate, driven and fast-paced team. This role requires an innovative and inspired teammate with deep expertise in security operations, endpoint detection, threat hunting and/or incident response and is excited to innovate.
In this role, you will own and maintain the product strategy from ideation to launch for Tanium's AI Agents for Security Operations. You will need to be both strategic and tactical, able to effectively define, communicate and execute the vision, working closely with customers and internal stakeholders.
A successful candidate will be a strong communicator who can bring their growth mindset, product and business expertise to execute cross-functionally across all levels of the organization. Must have a successful track record of working with stakeholders on new products. Must demonstrate executive presence and the ability to confidently engage with customer leadership.
This is a hybrid position, which will require in person attendance several days each week in one of the following locations: Addison, TX; Bellevue, WA; Durham, NC; Emeryville, CA; or Reston, VA.
What You’ll Do
About Tanium
Tanium 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 www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
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 $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 Privacy Policy.
#Hybrid
Our Product Management team is actively seeking a Director of Product Management for Security Operations to join our passionate, driven and fast-paced team. This role requires an innovative and inspired teammate with deep expertise in security operations, endpoint detection, threat hunting and/or incident response and is excited to innovate.
In this role, you will own and maintain the product strategy from ideation to launch for Tanium's AI Agents for Security Operations. You will need to be both strategic and tactical, able to effectively define, communicate and execute the vision, working closely with customers and internal stakeholders.
A successful candidate will be a strong communicator who can bring their growth mindset, product and business expertise to execute cross-functionally across all levels of the organization. Must have a successful track record of working with stakeholders on new products. Must demonstrate executive presence and the ability to confidently engage with customer leadership.
This is a hybrid position, which will require in person attendance several days each week in one of the following locations: Addison, TX; Bellevue, WA; Durham, NC; Emeryville, CA; or Reston, VA.
What You’ll Do
- Define and execute on an innovative roadmap for Tanium’s SecOps portfolio, ensuring alignment with Tanium's business objectives
- Work closely with engineering, data science, and design teams to translate customer needs into technical solutions
- Conduct in-depth analysis of market trends, customer requirements, and competitive landscapes
- Identify new market and partnership opportunities
- Present product vision, updates, and progress to internal and external stakeholders, including customers and partners
- Drive the adoption of cutting-edge SecOps technologies to address challenges in endpoint security, IT operations, and data management
- Track and deliver objectives and key results (OKRs) to measure product success and guide iterative improvements
- Own the delivery of product capabilities from ideation to launch in partnership with the engineering teams
- 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 your products and to build Tanium’s brand
- Education
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Information Security or similar domains of study or equivalent experience.
- MA preferred
- Experience
- 7 years of product management experience with cyber threat analysis, detection and response tools and platforms such as EDR, SIEM, and XDR
- 2 years of experience leading and mentoring a team of product managers
- Demonstrated ability to discover opportunities, and then define and deliver products
- 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 skills
- Experience with new and emerging technologies such as genAI, LLM, and agentic AI through the lens of cybersecurity use cases is preferred, though not required
- Analytical and data-driven: can use data and business intelligence tools to define metrics to measure baselines and outcomes
- Experience handling the ideation, technical development, and launch of customer-facing software products
- 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 skills
- 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
- 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 to inspire and influence internal and external customers
- Grit; ability to deal with and overcome challenges and ability to deal with ambiguity
About Tanium
Tanium 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 www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
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 $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 Privacy Policy.
#Hybrid
Salary : $135,000 - $405,000
