Director of Product Management, Tanium

• BA/BS required
• MA/MS or equivalent advanced technical/business degree preferred
• 8+ years of total professional experience in enterprise B2B software, with at least 5 years in product management supporting a SaaS, cloud platform, data platform, infrastructure, or security technology product
• Proven experience leading product strategy for complex technical platforms, including the ability to define opportunities, translate customer needs into requirements, and deliver products at enterprise scale
• Deep experience with cloud and SaaS architectures, with strong working knowledge of hyperscaler environments such as Azure and/or AWS
• Strong data platform experience, including one or more of the following:
• Data storage and data access architectures
• Query layers and large-scale database systems
• Data visualization and analytics experiences
• Data movement, export/import, integration, or interoperability capabilities
• Data quality, reliability, governance, and lifecycle considerations
• Experience working across distributed systems and multiple product surfaces, rather than a single narrowly defined application or monolith
• Experience with large-scale enterprise data systems; experience with graph databases is a plus
• Strong track record of working with engineering and business stakeholders to drive product definition, strategic alignment, prioritization, and execution
• Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, quickly ramp into new technical domains, and bring structure to broad, evolving problem spaces
• Proven ability to influence horizontally across cross-functional teams, product pods, and senior stakeholders
• People leadership experience, including building and leading teams; experience managing managers is a plus
• Technology background preferred, ideally with experience in security, systems management, IT operations, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, or enterprise platform products

Desirable

• Our Product Management team is actively seeking a new Director of Product Management focused on Data Platform, Cloud, and SaaS Architecture to join our passionate, driven, and fast-paced team
• In this role, you will own and shape Tanium’s end-to-end data strategy across cloud and SaaS environments, partnering closely with engineering, product, design, and cross-functional leadership to define how Tanium stores, accesses, queries, moves, and visualizes data across the platform
• You will bring deep experience in cloud and SaaS architectures, data platforms, and enterprise-scale systems, with the ability to translate complex customer, product, and technical requirements into actionable strategy and execution
• You will need to be successful influencing cross-functionally across all levels of the organization, operating horizontally across multiple teams and pods, and drive clarity in ambiguous, complex technical domains
• You must also be comfortable setting strategic direction while staying close enough to the work to make high-quality product and architecture decisions
• Own the product strategy and roadmap for Tanium’s cloud/SaaS data platform, from ideation through launch, in close partnership with engineering teams
• Define and drive the short- and long-term roadmap for Tanium’s end-to-end data architecture, including storage, access, query, visualization, and data movement capabilities
• Partner with Product Managers, Engineering, Design, and leadership across the organization to align priorities across multiple pods and ensure teams are building toward a cohesive data strategy
• Lead product direction for how data is surfaced and experienced in Atlas and the UI, with a focus on improving trust, usability, reliability, and customer value
• Drive the strategy for data movement and integration capabilities, including export, import, and scalable data exchange patterns across products and use cases
• Establish clear product requirements, technical specifications, use cases, business logic, and success metrics for data platform capabilities
• Partner with engineering leadership to make durable architectural decisions across complex, distributed cloud and SaaS systems
• Champion data quality as a core product priority, setting expectations and mechanisms to improve consistency, reliability, and trust throughout the data lifecycle
• Collaborate with internal teams on enablement, training, and launch materials to ensure successful adoption of new data capabilities and platform improvements
• Work closely with business, technical, customer-facing, and go-to-market teams to understand customer needs, solve daily challenges, and identify opportunities for product differentiation
• Leverage innovation and trends in cloud, SaaS, data architecture, analytics, and enterprise platform technologies to develop strategic solutions