Director of R&D and Strategic Finance, Tanium
$206-316k
+ Equity
Security & systems management platform
Be an early applicant
Security & systems management platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$206-316k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide manageability and security at scale for anything with a chip.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will have prior experience partnering with Engineering, Product or GTM teams, extensive financial modeling and analysis experience, strong business acumen, attention to detail, excellent communication skills, and the ability to partner with senior leaders in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Bachelor’s degree in Business or Finance
- Minimum of 8+ years of strategic/corporate finance, investment banking/management consulting, or experience at a high-growth technology company
- Experience leveraging AI to automate processes and improve efficiency
- Prior experience partnering with R&D organizations or GTM organizations, preferably in technology/software with subscription/SaaS models
- Experience working on complex business problems, leading to assessment of options, recommendations, and action plans
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to quickly craft precise and elegant responses
- Advanced in PowerPoint and experience with PowerBI or other data visualization tools
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Director, R&D and Strategic Finance, to act as a key finance partner to R&D leadership (Engineering, Product, and Strategy), owning budget management for these orgs while providing best-in-class financial modeling, analyses, and insights to enable data-driven decision-making and deliver against the company's multi-year financial plan
- You will play a key role in shaping the company's growth strategies by partnering with business leaders to assess performance, understand business drivers and levers, and model scenarios to accelerate growth and achieve financial targets
- Beyond day-to-day budget ownership, this role will have direct exposure to executive-level strategic decision-making, including analysis supporting product strategy, strategic partnerships, pricing strategy, and product marketing strategy
- This is a high-impact and high-visibility role, providing the opportunity to influence decision-making at Executive Leadership levels and lead a small team supporting budgeting and project execution across R&D
- Own budget management for the R&D organizations (Engineering and Product), including planning, forecasting, and variance analysis to ensure alignment with the company's financial targets
- Build and maintain relationships with R&D leadership to identify and model potential growth initiatives, drive pivotal investment decisions, and provide recommendations to optimize return on strategic investments
- Lead and develop a small team responsible for supporting budgeting, financial modeling, and project execution across R&D
- Prepare high-quality business analyses, insights, and modeling on ad hoc projects for the COO, CFO, CTO, and other executive stakeholders
- Build and improve management reporting and analyses to provide timely, insightful, and actionable information to enable data-driven decision-making
- Develop a deep understanding of Tanium's product and go-to-market model, translating this into operational and financial information to monitor the health of the business
- Drive continuous improvement within financial processes, tools, and models, including ongoing enhancements to provide line of sight to risks and opportunities
- Comfortable working in high-growth environments and operating with ambiguity
Our take
For millions of companies, cyber security is high on the agenda, especially as remote working has become the norm. Tanium offers a security and systems management platform that allows real-time data collection at an enterprise scale. It covers customers such as AutoNation, GoDaddy, and Whirlpool who use the company’s software to stay abreast of the ever-increasing level of sophisticated cyber attacks.
A valuable tool for enterprises and government organisations, Tanium partners with leading platforms and service providers across the world like Google Cloud, Oracle and Verizon. In doing so, it allows security and IT teams access to accurate information on the state of endpoints, helping it to realise new levels of business resilience.
The company continues to innovate its offering through both further development and partnerships. For example, it collaborated with Salesforce to support IT service management, remote monitoring and management, and cybersecurity capabilities. It also made its autonomous operating system generally available to all commercial cloud customers in 2026, with more than 1,300 organisations adopting it in the first six weeks.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2021
$150m
LATE VC
Oct 2020
$150m
LATE VC
Total funding: $805.7m
Company benefits
- Equity awards
- 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
- Business travel accident insurance
- Employee assistance programs
- Disability insurance
Company HQ
Lakeview, Kirkland, WA
Leadership
David Hindawi
(Executive Chairman)Before co-founding Tanium, David founded BigFix Inc, a systems management tool that IBM acquired, and Software Ventures, a leader in telecommunications software. They have several software patents in network communications and systems management.
Orion Hindawi
(Executive Chairman)Before co-founding Tanium with their father, David, Orion worked as the VP of Technology for BigFix, the systems management tool founded by their father. Previously served as CEO for Tanium.
Dan Streetman
(CEO & Board Member)Previously served as CEO for both Allvue Systems and TIBCO. Experience as EVP of Worldwide Sales & Marketing for BMC Software and as SVP of Worldwide Alliances & Channels for Salesforce.
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