Director of R&D and Strategic Finance

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.
• Comfortably work in high‑growth environments and operate with ambiguity.

What We’re Looking For

• 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 with the ability to quickly craft precise and elegant responses.
• Advanced proficiency 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. Tanium’s culture emphasizes collaboration, respect, and diversity, and the company is committed to building a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can succeed and grow. The company has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years and offers employees five days of volunteer time off each year.

Compensation and Benefits

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

• Equity awards.
• Medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Family planning benefits.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
• Transportation savings account.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match.
• Life, accident, and disability coverage.
• Business travel accident insurance.
• Employee assistance programs and other well‑being benefits.

Schedule

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