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). 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.

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.

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.
• Operate effectively in high-growth environments and 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.

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.

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way enterprises and governments solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are 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.

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 factors including location, education, skills, training, and experience.

Benefits

• Equity awards.
• 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.
• 5 days of volunteer time off (VTO) annually to contribute to communities and causes.