Director, Product Management

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 this role, you will work cross-functionally with engineering, technical account managers, subject matter experts, 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 technical product roadmap, and backlog items
• Collaborate with product management to define the strategic short and long term roadmap
• 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, TSE, 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
• 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

We’re looking for someone with: 

 Experience 

• Bachelor's Degree (Operations Research, Computer Science, Data Science, or similar) or equivalent work experience
• Technology background, preferably with security, systems management, IT asset or operations management products

Qualifications 

• Technically savvy, 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  

Other 

• 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 is never satisfied with 2nd place 

About Tanium 

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