Director of R&D and Strategic Finance

About the role

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 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.

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.

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

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

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; 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. 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.