IT Audit Manager

About the Role

The ideal candidate brings extensive experience leading audit and compliance programs across multiple frameworks and certifications. The IT Audit Manager builds and runs Tanium's audit program, leading a team of auditors, developing audit methodology, and driving remediation of control gaps. This is a hybrid position, requiring in-person attendance several days each week in one of the following locations: Addison, TX; Bellevue, WA; Durham, NC; Emeryville, CA; or Reston, VA.

Responsibilities

• Leads and supports expansion of Tanium’s audit program
• Develops and implements audit methodology, processes, and templates to drive a consistent, predictable, and repeatable audit program
• Leads and coaches a globally distributed team of auditors, assigning work, setting priorities, and monitoring progress through the audit lifecycle
• Identifies, tracks, and reports on critical audit KPIs to leadership, including budget-to-actuals, deficiencies, quality and accuracy, and program maturity
• Reviews audit reports for quality, ensuring findings and remediation recommendations are clear, accurate, and actionable
• Coordinates with external auditors and assessors on audit program logistics, information-sharing, and treatment of identified deficiencies
• Ensures plans of action and milestones are established for gaps identified during risk assessments, audits, and inspections
• Advises senior leadership on audit findings, control weaknesses, and risk mitigation approaches
• Monitors emerging technologies, laws, and regulations for their potential impact on the audit program
• Partners across departments and business units to implement the organization’s audit principles and programs

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field, or equivalent experience
• Relevant certifications preferred (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CISA)
• Extensive experience leading audit or compliance functions in a similar role
• Project management experience, including leading and organizing a team to complete work within defined timelines and budgets
• Knowledgeable in frameworks such as NIST SP 800 series, FISMA, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 Type II
• Exposure to a broad range of audits and frameworks (e.g., UK CE, TISAX, ISO 27701, IRAP, PCI-DSS, GDPR)
• Experience tracking and driving remediation of control deficiencies
• Technical aptitude with understanding of cloud infrastructure and SaaS technologies
• Experience managing a distributed, global team
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

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.

Benefits

• Equity awards
• Medical, dental, and vision plans
• 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
• 5 days of volunteer time off (VTO)

Pay

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $101,000 to $155,000. The actual salary may vary based on factors such as location, education, skills, training, and experience.