Director of R&D and Strategic Finance

We are looking for a Director of R&D and Strategic Finance to act as a key finance partner to R&D leadership (Engineering, Product, and Strategy). You will own budget management for these organizations 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.

This role will shape 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. You will have direct exposure to executive-level strategic decision-making, including analysis supporting product strategy, strategic partnerships, pricing strategy, and product marketing strategy. This high-impact, high-visibility role influences decision-making at the Executive Leadership level and leads a small team supporting budgeting and project execution across R&D.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• Comfortable working in high-growth environments and operating with ambiguity.

About the Company

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.

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes collaboration, respect, and diversity. Our pursuit of revolutionizing the way enterprises and governments solve their IT challenges is strengthened by our unique perspectives and collective actions. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow.

Schedule

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

Pay

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $206,000 to $316,000. The actual annual base salary offered may be adjusted based on location, education, skills, training, and experience.

Benefits

• Equity awards.
• Medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Family planning benefits.
• Health savings account and 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.
• 5 days of volunteer time off (VTO) annually.