Director, Product Management - Data Platform (Durham)

The Basics: Summary

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing product team, including potentially managing managers, while remaining willing to operate hands-on on key initiatives when needed.

Requirements

• Education - BA/BS required - MA/MS or equivalent advanced technical/business degree preferred
• Experience - Significant product management experience within an enterprise B2B environment, ideally supporting a SaaS, cloud platform, data platform, infrastructure, or security technology product.
• Experience - 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.
• Experience - Deep experience with cloud and SaaS architectures, with strong working knowledge of hyperscaler environments such as Azure and/or AWS.
• Experience - 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 - Experience working across distributed systems and multiple product surfaces, rather than a single narrowly defined application or monolith.
• Experience - Experience with large-scale enterprise data systems; experience with graph databases is a plus.
• Experience - Strong track record of working with engineering and business stakeholders to drive product definition, strategic alignment, prioritization, and execution.
• Experience - Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, quickly ramp into new technical domains, and bring structure to broad, evolving problem spaces.
• Experience - Proven ability to influence horizontally across cross-functional teams, product pods, and senior stakeholders.
• Experience - People leadership experience, including building and leading teams; experience managing managers is a plus.
• Experience - Technology background preferred, ideally with experience in security, systems management, IT operations, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, or enterprise platform products.
• Nice to have - Experience with graph databases or graph-based data models.
• Nice to have - Experience with large-scale database systems, analytics platforms, or enterprise data visualization products.
• Nice to have - Broader hyperscaler depth across Azure, AWS, and/or other cloud providers.
• Nice to have - Experience building durable export/import patterns and integrations across complex enterprise products.
• Nice to have - Experience leading product teams through organizational growth, hiring, or team structure evolution.

About Tanium

Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. Driven by AI and real-time endpoint intelligence, Tanium Autonomous IT empowers IT and security teams to make their organizations unstoppable. Many of the world’s leading organizations trust Tanium’s single, unified platform for endpoint management and security to innovate faster, stay resilient and move business forward with confidence, at scale. To learn how Tanium delivers Autonomous IT for unstoppable business – visit 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 $214,000 to $328,000. 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.

• equity awards
• 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 andAffirmative 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.

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