Senior Contracts Manager

The Basics:

Tanium is seeking an experienced contracts manager to join our legal team in support of vendor and partner contracts. The right person for this position will have experience drafting and negotiating legal, privacy and commercial terms in vendor and partner contracts and will be comfortable assessing risks related to data privacy, data security and intellectual property. This role will report into the legal department but a law degree is not required. 

What you’ll do:

• Review and negotiate all vendor agreements, including NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, and DPAs, and assist with escalations in accordance with internal guidelines
• Identify and advise various internal teams on standard contracting requirements, intellectual property rights, data privacy requirements, information-sharing requirements, legal and commercial risks, and internal policies, guidelines, and best practices
• Maintain templates and playbooks for use by the procurement team, and develop and provide training to internal teams as needed
• Maintain policies and practices for onboarding, overseeing and offboarding contingent workers (e.g., MSAs, pre-hire checks, training)
• Assist with termination of vendor contracts, including notices of breach and destruction of data requests
• Serve as a liaison between Legal, IT, Risk Management and Procurement for vendor security reviews and maintenance of approved data sub-processors
• Provide back-up for legal team in support of partner contracts, including review and negotiation of channel partner agreements (MSAs, Schedules, Adoption Agreements, etc.)  

We’re looking for someone with:

Minimum Job Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• At least 7 years of relevant experience 

Preferred Job Qualifications 

• At least 5 years’ experience directly negotiating complex commercial agreements
• Exceptionally good oral and written communication skills  
• Proven ability to work independently, as well as part of a tightly-knit team
• Careful attention to detail 

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