What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Digital Specialist, Paid Media position at Tanium?
Summary
This position follows the Company’s hybrid schedule which currently requires employees to work in the office at one of the following locations a minimum of three days per week: Addison, TX; Bellevue, WA; Durham, NC; Emeryville, CA; or Reston, VA.
Tanium is seeking a detail-oriented, data-driven Senior Digital Specialist, Paid Media, to help scale our presence on new and emerging digital advertising channels that support Tanium's go-to-market motion.
Reporting to the Director of Digital Marketing, you will support the Digital team's channel strategy and make a measurable impact by executing campaigns, analyzing performance, and turning data into clear optimization recommendations. This role is a great fit for someone who loves digging into data, sweats the details, and wants to grow alongside fast-evolving ad platforms. You'll also learn best practices from a team managing significant investment across paid search, paid social, programmatic and video channels, giving you broad exposure to Tanium's global digital and demand gen programs.
Job Function
Education
Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. As Al accelerates both innovation and risk, Tanium Atlas, the company's autonomous operating system, puts the full depth of the Tanium Autonomous IT Platform behind every IT and security operator - human and agentic. Tanium provides the real-time intelligence, agentic decision-making, and autonomous execution operators needed to detect, decide, and remediate at machine speed across their endpoint estate.
The company is recognized as a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Management Tools, as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Client Endpoint Management Software for Windows Device Management 2025-2026 Vendor Assessment, and as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™. Endpoint Management Platforms, Q2 2026.
To learn how Tanium delivers Autonomous IT for unstoppable business, 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.
As a global organization with stakeholders around the world, 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.
Our commitment to excellence and innovation has earned us a place on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years, and we continue to be recognized worldwide as a great place to work.
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 $115,000. 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.
Tanium is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected Veteran status, or other legally protected categories. If you require a reasonable accommodation in searching for a job opening, completing an application, interviewing, or completing any pre-employment testing or requirements, please contact accommodations@tanium.com. For more information refer to the “Know Your Rights” poster which is available here - https://www.eeoc.gov/poster.
Please be aware of job offers coming from people claiming to be Tanium employees. Tanium employees will only use @tanium.com email addresses to communicate with you, will have video interviews with you, and will never ask you for money.
This link leads to the machine readable files that are made available in response to the federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and includes negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed amounts between health plans and healthcare providers. The machine-readable files are formatted to allow researchers, regulators, and application developers to more easily access and analyze data.
For more information on how Tanium processes your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.
This position follows the Company’s hybrid schedule which currently requires employees to work in the office at one of the following locations a minimum of three days per week: Addison, TX; Bellevue, WA; Durham, NC; Emeryville, CA; or Reston, VA.
Tanium is seeking a detail-oriented, data-driven Senior Digital Specialist, Paid Media, to help scale our presence on new and emerging digital advertising channels that support Tanium's go-to-market motion.
Reporting to the Director of Digital Marketing, you will support the Digital team's channel strategy and make a measurable impact by executing campaigns, analyzing performance, and turning data into clear optimization recommendations. This role is a great fit for someone who loves digging into data, sweats the details, and wants to grow alongside fast-evolving ad platforms. You'll also learn best practices from a team managing significant investment across paid search, paid social, programmatic and video channels, giving you broad exposure to Tanium's global digital and demand gen programs.
Job Function
- Analyze digital campaign performance on a regular cadence, identify trends, and translate data into clear insights and optimization recommendations
- Support campaign execution across emerging digital channels, including campaign builds, targeting setup, and launch QA, based on strategy and budgets set by the Digital team
- Monitor daily budget pacing and flag spend or performance risks early
- Run hands-on optimizations across creative, audiences, and bids
- Use AI tools to accelerate performance analysis, reporting, and optimization, and help build automated workflows that scale the team's execution
- Set up and maintain tracking, including pixels, UTM parameters, and naming conventions, with Marketing Operations, and validate that data flows accurately into Marketo and Salesforce
- Partner with the Integrated Campaigns and creative teams to adapt messaging and creative for each platform
- Support A/B testing and incrementality measurement
- Stay curious about new ad platforms and features, and recommend tests to try
Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 3 years of digital marketing experience, preferably in B2B technology
- Solid understanding of how digital marketing works, including paid channels, audience targeting, conversion tracking, and the funnel from click to pipeline
- Hands-on experience with at least one major ad platform, such as Google Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Meta, or Display Ads; experience with emerging channels is a plus
- Strong analytical skills, with comfort analyzing performance in Excel or Google Sheets, ad platform reporting, and GA4
- Familiarity with Marketo and Salesforce is a plus
- Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
- A data-driven mindset, with the ability to turn numbers into clear, actionable recommendations
- An AI-native mindset, with hands-on use of AI tools for analysis, optimization, or workflow automation
- Proactive, transparent communication, including flagging risks early without being asked
- Eagerness to learn new platforms quickly in a fast-moving environment
- Strong organization and the ability to manage multiple campaigns at once
Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. As Al accelerates both innovation and risk, Tanium Atlas, the company's autonomous operating system, puts the full depth of the Tanium Autonomous IT Platform behind every IT and security operator - human and agentic. Tanium provides the real-time intelligence, agentic decision-making, and autonomous execution operators needed to detect, decide, and remediate at machine speed across their endpoint estate.
The company is recognized as a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Management Tools, as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Client Endpoint Management Software for Windows Device Management 2025-2026 Vendor Assessment, and as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™. Endpoint Management Platforms, Q2 2026.
To learn how Tanium delivers Autonomous IT for unstoppable business, 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.
As a global organization with stakeholders around the world, 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.
Our commitment to excellence and innovation has earned us a place on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years, and we continue to be recognized worldwide as a great place to work.
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 $115,000. 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.
Tanium is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected Veteran status, or other legally protected categories. If you require a reasonable accommodation in searching for a job opening, completing an application, interviewing, or completing any pre-employment testing or requirements, please contact accommodations@tanium.com. For more information refer to the “Know Your Rights” poster which is available here - https://www.eeoc.gov/poster.
Please be aware of job offers coming from people claiming to be Tanium employees. Tanium employees will only use @tanium.com email addresses to communicate with you, will have video interviews with you, and will never ask you for money.
This link leads to the machine readable files that are made available in response to the federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and includes negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed amounts between health plans and healthcare providers. The machine-readable files are formatted to allow researchers, regulators, and application developers to more easily access and analyze data.
For more information on how Tanium processes your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.
Salary : $85,000 - $115,000