Director, Product Management Operations

The Basics

The Director, Product Operations will drive cross-functional partnerships with multiple operations teams, product, and engineering to improve the quality of our processes, products, readiness, and maturity of our product operations.

What you’ll do

• Partner with Product Leadership to align on ongoing priorities, coverage model and refining procesvsses.
• Partner with Product and Product Marketing to build a flywheel of support for product processes, broaden collaboration with the field, assist with product launches and enforce product integrity. A key responsibility will be to lead processes and tools that provide supporting data for product and business planning.
• Partner with internal stakeholders and cross-functional teams to inform and influence decision-making. Take a creative approach to problem-solving, driving strategic initiatives.
• Identify problems across organizations and create processes to solve them. Work with other teams to manage creation and execution of goals, aligning with the product area strategy. Coordinate cross-functional project teams to execute analyses to develop recommendations.
• Use discretion on problems, determining escalation paths to drive contributions. Distribute timely/accurate updates tailored to audiences. Provide clarity in ambiguous situations to ensure stakeholders are aware of risks and opportunities.
• Partner across functions to support leadership. Motivate teams to act and drive projects to completion.
• Exhibit excellent judgment on sensitive and cross-functional issues, fostering collaboration between leaders, sub-teams, and the larger organization.
• Understand product operations challenges, needs, and priorities to improve launch programs.
• Potentially lead an operations team for ongoing operational and technical support of launched products

We’re looking for someone with

• - - 10+ years of experience in Product Management, Engineering, Management Consulting, Corporate Strategy or Operations. Product operations experience preferred.
  • 5+ Prior leadership experience strongly preferred since this individual contributor role has potential to grow.
  • Experience working in the enterprise software industry.
  • Experience leading complex operational and strategic initiatives and partnering effectively on cross-functional projects.
  • Excellent business judgment and problem-solving/analytical skills.
  • Outstanding communication and presentation skills

About Tanium

Tanium, the industry’s only provider of converged endpoint management (XEM), leads the paradigm shift in legacy approaches to managing complex security and technology environments. Only Tanium protects every team, endpoint, and workflow from cyber threats by integrating IT, Operations, Security, and Risk into a single platform that delivers comprehensive visibility across devices, a unified set of controls, and a common taxonomy for a single shared purpose: to protect critical information and infrastructure at scale. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for six consecutive years and ranks on Fortune’s list of the Best Large Workplaces in Technology. In fact, more than half of the Fortune 100 and the U.S. armed forces trust Tanium to protect people; defend data; secure systems; and see and control every endpoint, team, and workflow everywhere. That’s the power of certainty. Visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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.

We are an organization with stakeholders around the world and 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.

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 $130,000 to $390,000. 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.

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.

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