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# Product Counsel at Tanium

- **Company:** Tanium
- **Location:** Addison, TX / Bellevue, WA / Durham, NC / Emeryville, CA / Reston, VA
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/tanium/jobs/8078236

## Job description

The Basics:

Tanium is seeking a highly motivated, proactive attorney to join our legal team as product counsel. The right person for this position must be self-motivated, intellectually curious and willing to dig deep into the development of our products to become a trusted advisor for engineering and product management. We need a team player who is comfortable working across the organization and has a pragmatic approach to problem solving.

This position follows the Company’s hybrid schedule which currently requires employees to work in the office at one of the following locations a minimum of three days per week: Addison, TX; Durham, NC;  Bellevue, WA; Reston, VA; or Emeryville, CA.

What you’ll do:

- Provide practical legal advice and counseling on a full range of product-related issues that arise domestically and internationally
- Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering and Strategy teams through the entire product lifecycle to identify issues, recommend practical solutions, and assist cross-functional efforts to achieve go-to-market goals
- Serve as a legal advisor on AI matters, including advising on AI policies, liability, licensing, responsible AI development, deployment, and risk assessments
- Develop and enhance processes designed to ensure ongoing product compliance with global laws and regulations, including global privacy laws, data security, export control and trade compliance
- Negotiate inbound and outbound license agreements
- Participate in the company's open-source review process
- Advise on privacy by design, privacy impact assessments, and data handling and minimization principles throughout the software development lifecycle
- Review product collateral and marketing materials
- Serve as a subject matter expert on our products for the Contracts and Legal teams and assist with contract negotiations
- Support the company's incident response program and respond to security events
- Contribute to the company’s IP strategy and product roadmap, including management of patent and trademark portfolios and IP enforcement activities in coordination with product teams and outside counsel

We’re looking for someone with:

- JD from an accredited institution
- Active and in good standing in at least one state bar
- At least 5 years of relevant legal experience at a law firm, government agency, and/or in-house, with substantive exposure to the software, SaaS, or related technology industry
- Familiarity with emerging AI legal considerations, governance frameworks (e.g., NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act) and regulations, with the ability to translate requirements into actionable guidance for product and engineering teams
- Working knowledge of global privacy laws and their impact on software product development
- Exceptionally good communication skills
- Proven ability to work independently as well as part of a tightly-knit legal team
- Ability to work cross-functionally within an organization to build consensus and achieve strategic goals as well as the ability to enforce legal requirements without alienating clients

## 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 $191,000 to $293,000. 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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