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# Director of R&D and Strategic Finance at Tanium

- **Company:** Tanium
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/tanium/jobs/8114980

## Job description

The Basics:

We are looking for a Director, R&D and Strategic Finance, to act as a key finance partner to R&D leadership (Engineering, Product, and Strategy), owning budget management for these orgs while providing best-in-class financial modeling, analyses, and insights to enable data-driven decision-making and deliver against the company's multi-year financial plan.

You will play a key role in shaping the company's growth strategies by partnering with business leaders to assess performance, understand business drivers and levers, and model scenarios to accelerate growth and achieve financial targets. Beyond day-to-day budget ownership, this role will have direct exposure to executive-level strategic decision-making, including analysis supporting product strategy, strategic partnerships, pricing strategy, and product marketing strategy.

This is a high-impact and high-visibility role, providing the opportunity to influence decision-making at Executive Leadership levels and lead a small team supporting budgeting and project execution across R&D. The ideal candidate will have prior experience partnering with Engineering, Product or GTM teams, extensive financial modeling and analysis experience, strong business acumen, attention to detail, excellent communication skills, and the ability to partner with senior leaders in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

What you’ll do:

- Own budget management for the R&D organizations (Engineering and Product), including planning, forecasting, and variance analysis to ensure alignment with the company's financial targets
- Build and maintain relationships with R&D leadership to identify and model potential growth initiatives, drive pivotal investment decisions, and provide recommendations to optimize return on strategic investments
- Lead and develop a small team responsible for supporting budgeting, financial modeling, and project execution across R&D
- Prepare high-quality business analyses, insights, and modeling on ad hoc projects for the COO, CFO, CTO, and other executive stakeholders
- Build and improve management reporting and analyses to provide timely, insightful, and actionable information to enable data-driven decision-making
- Develop a deep understanding of Tanium's product and go-to-market model, translating this into operational and financial information to monitor the health of the business
- Drive continuous improvement within financial processes, tools, and models, including ongoing enhancements to provide line of sight to risks and opportunities
- Comfortable working in high-growth environments and operating with ambiguity

We’re looking for someone with:

- Bachelor’s degree in Business or Finance
- Minimum of 8+ years of strategic/corporate finance, investment banking/management consulting, or experience at a high-growth technology company.
- Experience leveraging AI to automate processes and improve efficiency
- Prior experience partnering with R&D organizations or GTM organizations, preferably in technology/software with subscription/SaaS models
- Experience working on complex business problems, leading to assessment of options, recommendations, and action plans
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to quickly craft precise and elegant responses.
- Advanced in PowerPoint and experience with PowerBI or other data visualization tools.

## About Tanium

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.

Many of the world’s leading organizations trust Tanium’s single, unified platform for endpoint management and security to innovate faster, stay resilient and move business forward with confidence, at scale. To learn how Tanium delivers Autonomous IT for unstoppable business – visit [www.tanium.com](http://www.tanium.com/) and follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tanium) and [X](https://twitter.com/Tanium).

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.

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.

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.

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 $206,000 to $316,000 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. 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 accommodations@tanium.com. For more information refer to the “Know Your Rights” poster which is available here - https://www.eeoc.gov/poster.

Please be aware of job offers coming from people claiming to be Tanium employees. Tanium employees will only use @tanium.com email addresses to communicate with you, will have video interviews with you, and will never ask you for money.

[This link](https://www.cigna.com/legal/compliance/machine-readable-files) leads to the machine readable files that are made available in response to the federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and includes negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed amounts between health plans and healthcare providers. The machine-readable files are formatted to allow researchers, regulators, and application developers to more easily access and analyze data.

For more information on how Tanium processes your personal data, please see our [Privacy Policy](https://www.tanium.com/privacy-policy/).

## About Tanium

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tanium provides an autonomous endpoint management platform that enables IT and security teams to identify, manage, and execute changes in real time across large-scale, complex IT environments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series unknown; last known valuation $9B)
- **Headquarters**: Emeryville, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2007
- **Founders**: Orion Hindawi (Executive Chairman) and David Hindawi (Chairman Emeritus)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Cybersecurity & IT Operations (Endpoint Management)
- **Target Customers**: B2B, Enterprise (Fortune 100, U.S. Federal Government, large regulated industries)
- **Mission/Purpose**: To deliver “The Power of Certainty” by providing real-time visibility and control over all endpoints, enabling organizations to operate securely and efficiently.

## Products & Services
- **Tanium Autonomous Endpoint Management (AEM)**: An integrated SaaS platform that combines real-time asset discovery, endpoint management, vulnerability management, risk & compliance, threat hunting/incident response, and digital employee experience. Built on Tanium’s patented real-time platform, leverages AI-driven automation to execute changes safely at scale.
- **Tanium Core**: The common platform providing real-time asset discovery, autonomous foundations, and zero-day risk identification/remediation.
- **Tanium Endpoint Management**: OS patching, software management, device provisioning, and policy management.
- **Tanium Risk & Compliance**: Vulnerability assessment, prioritization, remediation, compliance tracking, and sensitive data monitoring.
- **Tanium Incident Response**: Threat hunting, incident investigation/response/recovery, and lateral movement risk identification.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $9B (as of 2025, per corporate fact sheet)
- **Key Metric**: $700M+ Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Microsoft (ISV Innovation Partner of the Year 2024), ServiceNow (deep integration with CMDB and workflows). No recent funding round disclosed; prior investors include Andreessen Horowitz, TPG Growth, and others (not detailed in provided materials).
- **Growth Signals**: 1,900+ employees, 17 offices across 15 countries, 36 million endpoints managed globally, 40% of Fortune 100 as customers, all six branches of the U.S. Military. Forbes Cloud 100 Top 25 (9th consecutive year), CRN Security 100 and AI 100 (2025).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Real-time, single-agent architecture**: Patented platform provides immediate visibility and control over all endpoints without relying on periodic scans.
- **Massive scale and proven reliability**: Manages 36M endpoints for some of the largest, most security-sensitive organizations (e.g., DoD, top banks, retailers).
- **AI-native automation**: Tanium AEM uses AI to automate change execution safely, reducing manual overhead and human error.
- **Deep ecosystem integrations**: Seamless with ServiceNow and Microsoft security/infrastructure stacks, maximizing existing investments.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-driven operational autonomy**: Continuing to build out autonomous endpoint management capabilities to reduce complexity and cost.
- **Expansion of partner ecosystem**: Deepening integrations with major platforms (ServiceNow, Microsoft) and expanding channel reach globally.
- **Federal and regulated market penetration**: Already dominant in U.S. military and top banks; likely expanding into other regulated verticals.
- **Digital employee experience (DEX)**: Adding capabilities to monitor and improve end-user experience proactively.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Certified Great Place to Work (2024) in US, Canada, France, Japan, UK. Core values: “We do the right thing,” “We are unstoppable,” “We win as a team.”
- **Work Policy**: Hybrid model for most roles, with primary hubs in Addison (TX), Bellevue (WA), Durham (NC), Emeryville (CA), and Reston (VA). Some remote positions available for sales and engineering roles.
- **Notable Perks**: Part of a high-growth, well-funded private company with significant ARR; opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI and endpoint security tech; direct impact on some of the world’s largest IT environments.
- **Engineering Culture**: Emphasis on real-time systems, AI, and security engineering; roles like Corporate AI Engineer and AI Adoption & Enablement Lead suggest active internal AI transformation.

## Sources
1. [Tanium Corporate Fact Sheet (PDF)](https://site.tanium.com/rs/790-QFJ-925/images/Tanium_Fact_Sheet-2025-EN.pdf)
2. [Tanium Careers Page](https://www.tanium.com/careers/)
3. [Tanium About Page](https://www.tanium.com/about/)
4. [Tanium Main Website](https://www.tanium.com/)
5. [Greenhouse Jobs at Tanium](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/tanium/jobs/7800332)

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