Director, Product Management - Security Operations

Overview

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 of your products and to build Tanium’s brand

We’re looking for someone with

• 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 cyberthreat 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

Other

• 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 organisations to inspire and influence internal and external customers
• Grit; ability to deal with and overcome challenges and 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. Tanium secures more than 32M endpoints worldwide and serves a diverse set of customers, including Fortune 100 organizations, top US retailers, top US commercial banks, and branches of the U.S. Military. For more information, visit Tanium and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

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 salary offered may be adjusted based on factors such as location, education, skills, training, and experience.

In addition to base salary, team members will receive equity awards and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental and vision plans, family planning benefits, health savings account, flexible spending account, transportation savings account, 401(k) with company match, life, accidental, and disability coverage, business travel accident insurance, employee assistance programs, and other well-being benefits.

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