Commercial Account Executive

Tanium
Addison, TX
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience in full-cycle sales campaigns and a passion for solving complex IT and security challenges.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a background in enterprise sales and a passion for IT and security challenges
    — “passion about being part of a team focused on helping customers solve some of the most pressing needs in Security and IT”
  • Individuals who have successfully managed full-cycle sales campaigns and met quota
    — “1+ year experience in full cycle sales campaigns with a success of hitting quota”

Things to consider

  • The role demands a high volume of outbound activity and may require flexibility in work hours
    — “Maintain a high volume of activity including outbound calls, emails, & social selling”
  • Candidates must be open to ongoing development and feedback as part of the role
    — “Be eager to learn, committed to getting 1% better every day and be open to feedback”

How to stand out

  • Highlight consultative selling experience and how it aligns with solving customer challenges
    — “Through understanding your customers challenge, sell our solutions in a consultative approach”
  • Emphasize your ability to build and manage a sales pipeline with measurable results
    — “Build and manage a methodically qualified sales pipeline from start to close”
  • Demonstrate your technical aptitude and how it helps you understand customer needs
    — “Have a strong technical aptitude”
  • Showcase your experience working with partners to drive customer outcomes
    — “Work closely with our broad ecosystem of partners to drive the best outcome for customers”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • quota attainment
  • customer satisfaction
Typical background
sales experiencetechnical background

Skills & requirements

Required

Full Cycle Sales CampaignsSales StrategyCustomer Relationship ManagementTechnical Aptitude

Preferred

Consultative Selling

Stack & domain

Communication

About the role

Original posting from Tanium via Greenhouse

The Basics

Tanium is looking for talented and energetic individuals to be part of our fast-growing Corporate Sales team.  The Corporate Account Executive will work closely with our strategic partners, Sales Engineers, and field sales teams to run full cycle sales campaigns.  Motivated and driven individuals will thrive in this environment while developing the key skills for a long-term technology sales career.  We will partner with you on your development to help you grow your career, while investing in your development and ensuring you have the resources to be successful.

What you’ll do:

Build and manage a methodically qualified sales pipeline from start to close

Research, identify, and generate new opportunities on a weekly basis

Through understanding your customers challenge, sell our solutions in a consultative approach

Maintain a high volume of activity including outbound calls, emails, & social selling

Develop, grow, and maintain relationships within a dedicated account book of Emerging Enterprise accounts

Learn and embrace Tanium’s value selling sales strategy

Build a strong understanding of the competitive landscape and current trends in the marketplace

Work closely with our broad ecosystem of partners to drive the best outcome for customers

Be an integral part of the fastest growing business in Tanium

The Right Candidate Will:

1+ year experience in full cycle sales campaigns with a success of hitting quota

Bachelor's degree in Business or related area

Demonstrate passion about being part of a team focused on helping customers solve some of the most pressing needs in Security and IT, while helping drive innovation and collaborations across the business

Be a strong and effective communicator

Build strong relationships across the business and become a trusted resource for the team.

Be eager to learn, committed to getting 1% better every day and be open to feedback.

Competitive mentality that drives you to exceed

Have a strong technical aptitude

Must be detailed oriented and flexible

About Tanium 

Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. As Al accelerates both innovation and risk, Tanium Atlas, the company's autonomous operating system, puts the full depth of the Tanium Autonomous IT Platform behind every IT and security operator - human and agentic. Tanium provides the real-time intelligence, agentic decision-making, and autonomous execution operators needed to detect, decide, and remediate at machine speed across their endpoint estate. 

The company is recognized as a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Management Tools, as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Client Endpoint Management Software for Windows Device Management 2025-2026 Vendor Assessment, and as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™. Endpoint Management Platforms, Q2 2026.

To learn how Tanium delivers Autonomous IT for unstoppable business, visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

On a mission. Together. 

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.   

As a global organization with stakeholders around the world, it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.  

Our commitment to excellence and innovation has earned us a place on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years, and we continue to be recognized worldwide as a great place to work. 

Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.   

What you’ll get 

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $81,500 to $110,000 and this position will also be commission eligible. 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. This position is classified as salaried non-exempt and eligible for overtime pay as required by law.

In addition to an annual base salary, team members will receive equity awards and a generous benefits package consisting of 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.

Tanium is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected Veteran status, or other legally protected categories. If you require a reasonable accommodation in searching for a job opening, completing an application, interviewing, or completing any pre-employment testing or requirements, please contact accommodations@tanium.com. For more information refer to the “Know Your Rights” poster which is available here - https://www.eeoc.gov/poster.

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Source: Tanium careers (Greenhouse)

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