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Executive Assistant

Tanium
Durham, NC Full Time
POSTED ON 12/5/2025 CLOSED ON 1/3/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Executive Assistant position at Tanium?

The Basics

We are searching for an Executive Assistant with a positive and can-do attitude, who will thrive in our fast-paced dynamic environment. The ideal candidate will have a high level of comfort dealing with executives, have excellent interpersonal and social skills, and be flexible and adapt easily to changing priorities.

In this role you will provide support to the Chief Marketing Officer. The ideal applicant will have demonstrated experience working with all levels of internal and external professionals, handling complex calendars and other arrangements for senior executives. A successful candidate must be detail-oriented, a solid multi-tasker, and have prior experience supporting a CxO. In addition, the candidate must be polished and professional, with excellent oral and written communication skills.

What You’ll Do

  • Administrative functions including calendaring, meeting assistance, expense reports, travel and event planning, assisting with general requests
  • Handle multiple, potentially competing priorities with patience, flexibility and responsiveness
  • Handle confidential and sensitive information with high integrity, ethics and the utmost of confidentiality
  • Handle work with a proactive and efficiency-oriented approach, while being highly organized and paying attention to detail
  • Collaborate with other executive assistants
  • Approach the role with a high degree of dependability, team mindset and a positive attitude

We’re Looking For Someone With

  • Education; BA/BS required
  • Experience; 5 years of VP or CxO administrative support required
  • Deep experience with a variety of office productivity tools, including Google Apps, Concur, Egencia, Zoom, Microsoft Suite, Box, DocuSign preferred
  • Proficiency and speed with PowerPoint required
  • Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and positive attitude
  • Openness to learning new things and to improving processes
  • Handle sensitive information with good judgement and discretion
  • Proactive approach to tasks with a goal of improving the efficiency of the departments supported
  • Manage priorities and handle multiple tasks and requests from department members with frequent, tight deadlines, remaining calm under pressure and responsive throughout

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.

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.

What You’ll Get

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $85,000 to $255,000. 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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