Director, Product Management at Tanium in Chicago, Illinois

Job Description:

The Basics:

As a Director, Product Management at Tanium, you will serve as a voice of the customer to engineering in understanding and prioritizing development efforts for Tanium products in Tanium's Risk and Compliance portfolio. In this role, you will work cross-functionally with engineering, technical account managers, subject matter experts, product marketing, sales, technology partnership and the product management teams, to ensure smooth development and maintenance of said product(s).

What you'll do:

• Participate in creating, managing, prioritizing, and communicating product roadmap, and backlog items.
• Collaborate with product management to define the strategic short and long term roadmap.
• Responsible for building and maintaining the right partnerships with established and new data providers.
• Work with the product management, user experience, development, and quality assurance teams to deliver on an agreed-upon roadmap.
• Work with a remote, cross-functional, and globally distributed team as part of the agile development process.
• Work with product management, customer support, technical writers, and product marketing to provide input into implementation guides, whitepapers, and community knowledge articles.
• Actively participate in research and development (R&D), prototyping, proof of concepts and building environments for internal and external product demos and testing.
• Assess and address technical risks.
• Work with enablement teams (SME, Sales Engineering, etc.) to ensure the appropriate materials are provided to ensure successful enablement/training on new features and updates.
• Document technical specifications, use cases, requirements, and detailed user interface mockups and the underlying business logic.
• Come up with product metrics to measure the success and quality of our products.
• Monitor and measure the success of launched features to maintain a tight learning loop, leveraging both qualitative and quantitative data to continually inform the product development process.
• Build relationships across the organization and facilitate communication between cross-divisional groups to ensure our tooling and processes are driving product improvement
• Develop and maintain the role of a "trusted advisor" with product leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to drive long-term impact.
• Participate in the full product enhancement lifecycle, from requirements gathering and prioritization of enhancement requests through design and oversight of implementation.
• Bring strong awareness and knowledge of direct competitors to ensure that Tanium's products offerings
  are leaders in their respective landscape. Also able to conduct capability analysis on a regular basis.
• Collaborate closely with other Product Managers to ensure alignment across teams, understanding
  priorities and inter-dependencies across various initiatives.
  
  

Experience

• Minimum 7+ years Enterprise Software experience
• Bachelor's Degree (Computer Science, Data Science, or similar ) or equivalent work experience.
• Technology background, preferably with security and risk management products.
• Knowledge of Windows Domain Controllers and similar technology, Data Loss Prevention.
• Demonstrated success in working with engineering teams to plan, develop and launch successful
  software products
• Hands-on with Data:
  
  
  • Analyzing data sets around operations, security and risk
  • Interpreting data, analyzing results using statistical techniques
  • Developing and implementing data analyses, data collection systems and other strategies that
    optimize statistical efficiency and quality
  • Managing the relationship with legal and the contracting process
  
  

Qualifications

• Technically savvy, and has exposure to software development, and system integration.
• Ability to identify and mitigate development and implementation risks.
• Ability to think big and influence across all levels of an organization
• Ability to work independently and as a part of cross-functional and multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize deadlines.
• Ability to perform business requirements analysis and design
• Experience using OKRs to drive product outcomes
  
  

• 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
• Willingness to take on firmly-entrenched competitors with creative approaches to technology, and tenacious pursuit to build and grow a product's customer base
• 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
• Ability to manage priorities in a fast-moving environment
• Adept at understanding and navigating organizations in order to inspire and influence internal and external customers
• Proficient in developing and conducting presentations at all levels.
• Grit; ability to deal with and overcome challenges and ability to deal with ambiguity
• Do-what-it-takes approach; willingness to get your hands dirty.
• Entrepreneurial spirit who us never satisfied with 2 nd

About Tanium:

At Tanium, we make it our mission to empower the world's largest organizations to manage and protect their mission-critical networks. Nothing makes us happier than seeing customers' faces light up as they realize the lightning-fast capabilities at their fingertips to see everything and do anything across their computer networks - with unparalleled scale.

We pride ourselves on being unstoppable in the pursuit of our mission. We are diverse problem solvers driven to do the right thing and win as a team.

If you are looking to join a fast-growing, mission-driven company, and want to make a lasting impact on the organization and the industry, we'd love to talk to you. Learn more at www.tanium.com .