Most Loved Workplace® Certified JobDirector, Product Management - Endpoint Policy and Configuration Management
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<h3><strong>The Basics:</strong></h3>
<p>Tanium's Product Management team is actively seeking a&nbsp;<strong>Director, Product Management</strong> to lead <strong>Policy and Configuration Management for the Endpoint Management portfolio</strong>. This is a senior individual contributor role responsible for owning the strategy, roadmap, and execution of how Tanium defines, applies, and proves configuration state across the enterprise — giving IT and Security teams a single way to set policy once and enforce it consistently across Windows, Linux, and macOS endpoints, regardless of whether those endpoints are on-premises, remote, or in the cloud.</p>
<p>The successful candidate will own the product strategy behind Tanium's centralized policy engine: application allow/deny control, full-disk encryption, device and removable media control, host firewall management, and machine- and user-scoped administrative template (Group Policy-style) policy. This includes the migration tooling that lets customers import existing Group Policy backups and industry hardening standards — such as CIS Build Kits and vendor security baselines — directly into managed policy. You will also shape the next generation of policy types that supersede legacy mechanisms as customers modernize off traditional, on-premises group policy infrastructure.</p>
<p>You will work cross-functionally with Engineering, Product Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success to set vision, drive roadmap, ship capabilities customers trust for compliance and audit, and turn consistent configuration state into measurable risk reduction for customers.</p>
<p>A successful candidate is a strong communicator and influencer who can operate fluently across executive stakeholder conversations, deep technical architecture discussions, and customer-facing storytelling. Must have a successful track record of shipping enterprise configuration management, compliance, or policy products at scale.</p>
<h3>What you'll do</h3>
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<li>Own the <strong>product strategy, roadmap, and delivery</strong> for Tanium's endpoint policy and configuration management capabilities, end to end from ideation to launch.</li>
<li>Drive the roadmap for <strong>Windows policy and configuration management</strong> — application control (allow/deny rules), full-disk encryption, device and removable storage control, host firewall management, and machine- and user-scoped administrative template policy — ensuring parity with and differentiation from traditional Group Policy infrastructure.</li>
<li>Expand <strong>Linux configuration management</strong> capabilities (e.g., host firewall management and hardening controls), building out coverage on top of an established Windows foundation.</li>
<li>Own the strategy for <strong>legacy migration and baseline import tooling</strong> — Group Policy backup import and industry hardening standard support (CIS Build Kits, vendor security baselines) that automatically convert a downloaded benchmark file into a ready-to-enforce compliance policy, complete with conflict detection across overlapping settings and automatic content-set mapping — and for next-generation policy types that supersede legacy equivalents as customers modernize.</li>
<li>Define and evolve <strong>policy enforcement state and compliance reporting</strong> (applied, partially applied, superseded, not applied) so customers can prove configuration compliance and audit posture at any time.</li>
<li>Partner with incident response, reporting, and guidance capabilities across the platform to turn security findings into durable preventive policy and to surface actionable configuration drift and remediation guidance to operators.</li>
<li>Document customer use cases, product requirements, and business justifications for new policy and configuration investments; prioritize ruthlessly based on customer risk reduction, compliance mandates, and platform leverage.</li>
<li>Partner with Product Marketing and Sales to develop <strong>go-to-market motions, enablement, and messaging</strong>; support launches, analyst engagements, and customer briefings.</li>
<li>Cultivate <strong>strategic customer relationships</strong> to validate direction, surface gaps, and turn lighthouse deployments into reference architectures.</li>
<li>Establish and track KPIs — policy adoption, time-to-compliance, configuration drift and remediation rates, and platform pull-through — and use them to drive continuous improvement.</li>
<li>Leverage emerging trends in <strong>agentic AI and autonomous IT</strong> to shape the roadmap for self-healing, continuously enforced endpoint configuration.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Requirements&nbsp;</h3>
<h3>Education</h3>
<ul>
<li>Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.</li>
<li>Masters in Computer Science or MBA preferred.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Experience</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>8+ years</strong> of total professional experience in enterprise B2B software, with at least <strong>5 years in product management</strong> supporting a SaaS or enterprise platform.</li>
<li><strong>Required:</strong> hands-on experience with <strong>Windows policy and configuration management</strong> — Group Policy, ADMX administrative templates, security baselines, full-disk encryption, application control, or comparable endpoint configuration tooling.</li>
<li><strong>Strong bonus:</strong> in-depth experience with <strong>Linux configuration management</strong> — configuration/hardening frameworks, host firewall management, or compliance baselines for Linux systems.</li>
<li>Demonstrated success <strong>owning and shipping policy, compliance, or configuration management products</strong> at enterprise scale.</li>
<li>Deep familiarity with <strong>endpoint management and IT operations</strong> — including the customer workflows that span IT and Security teams.</li>
<li>Strong fluency with <strong>compliance frameworks and industry baselines</strong> (e.g., CIS benchmarks, vendor security baselines) and how they translate into enforceable policy.</li>
<li>Experience working with <strong>executive stakeholders</strong> to align on vision, secure investment, and unblock execution.</li>
<li>Proven ability to drive cross-functional alignment across engineering, marketing, and sales without direct authority.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other</h3>
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<li>Align with the Tanium values: <strong>we win as a team, we do the right thing, and we are unstoppable</strong>.</li>
<li>Intuition to identify high-leverage configuration and compliance gaps that align with Tanium's platform and present opportunities for rapid growth.</li>
<li>Willingness to take on firmly-entrenched, legacy configuration management incumbents with creative approaches to technology and a tenacious pursuit to build and grow a product's customer base.</li>
<li>Ability to establish and nurture strong customer champions who can serve as advocates and an informal advisory board.</li>
<li>Strong written communication, verbal communication, and executive presentation skills.</li>
<li>Adept at understanding and navigating complex organizations in order to inspire and influence internal and external stakeholders.</li>
<li>Grit; ability to deal with and overcome challenges, and to thrive in ambiguity.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>About Tanium&nbsp;</strong></p>
<div>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.</div>
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<p><strong>On a mission. Together.&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">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.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:1440,&quot;335559738&quot;:200,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p>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. &nbsp;</p>
<p>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.&nbsp;</p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">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.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><strong>What you’ll get&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p><div class="content-conclusion"><p>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&nbsp;<a href="mailto:accommodations@Tanium.com">accommodations@Tanium.com</a>. For more information refer to the “Know Your Rights” poster which is available here -&nbsp;<a href="https://www.eeoc.gov/poster" target="_blank">https://www.eeoc.gov/poster</a>.</p>
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