Director of Strategic Accounts - Mid-Market Bay Area

Tanium
United States
Remote

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have enterprise software sales experience and a track record of exceeding quota.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with enterprise software sales experience and a proven ability to exceed quota
    — “Proven track record of exceeding quota”
  • Individuals who are comfortable engaging with high-level executives and managing complex sales cycles
    — “Articulate the value of the Tanium platform to decision makers and expertly manage the complex sales cycle”
  • Professionals with experience in building relationships with and through channel partners
    — “Experience establishing relationships and selling with and through channel partners strongly preferred”

Things to consider

  • This role may require travel as needed, which could impact remote flexibility
    — “Travel as needed”
  • Candidates must be prepared to handle both technical and business-oriented discussions with clients
    — “from talking business benefits to bits and bytes”

How to stand out

  • Emphasize your ability to articulate platform value to C-suite executives in your application materials
    — “Articulate the value of the Tanium platform to decision makers”
  • Demonstrate your experience in working with channel partners and cross-functional teams
    — “Work with the Partner and Marketing teams to define and support prospecting and sales efforts”
  • Showcase your skills in generating and managing a healthy sales pipeline through SDR or lead generation activities
    — “Generate appropriate sales development activity to ensure healthy pipeline management”
  • Demonstrate your ability to conduct webinars or in-person presentations to generate qualified leads
    — “Conduct online webinars or in-person presentations to generate qualified leads”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • Exceeding sales quotas
  • Generating new business opportunities
Typical background
Significant enterprise software sales experience

Skills & requirements

Required

Enterprise Software SalesComplex Sales Cycle ManagementC-suite Relationship BuildingSales ForecastingSales DevelopmentPresentation Skills

Preferred

Channel Partner SalesWebinar Hosting

Stack & domain

Enterprise Software SalesComplex Sales Cycle ManagementPartner And Marketing SupportSales Development ActivityTeamworkCommunicationPresentationEvangelizingField SalesCustomer ExperienceTechnology Solutions

About the role

Original posting from Tanium via Greenhouse

Director of Strategic Accounts - Mid-Market Bay Area 

The Basics

As a Director of Strategic Accounts (DSA) on the Tanium field sales team, you will be responsible for generating opportunities to position the Tanium platform within an assigned territory and/or accounts. You’ll be equally as comfortable with the CIO, CISO or VP Ops as you would hosting a room of Red Team members; from talking business benefits to bits and bytes. The successful DSA drives a superior customer experience by delivering technology solutions tailored to customer needs and is able to exceed their assigned quota.

What you’ll do

Articulate the value of the Tanium platform to decision makers and expertly manage the complex sales cycle 

Nurture and develop relationships within the assigned territory and/or accounts, presenting to the C-suite the value of the Tanium platform 

Work with the Partner and Marketing teams to define and support prospecting and sales efforts within assigned territory and/or accounts 

Generate appropriate sales development activity to ensure healthy pipeline management 

Accurately forecast, maintaining excellent SFDC hygiene 

Conduct online webinars or in-person presentations to generate qualified leads 

Travel as needed 

We’re looking for someone with

Significant enterprise software sales experience, generating and closing large & complex software transactions with the biggest customers in the region 

A strong team mentality - selling is a team sport at Tanium, where managing and using virtual resources to tackle large and complex sales cycles is a must have skill 

Proven track record of exceeding quota 

Experience calling on and presenting to C-Suite level contacts 

The ability to evangelize and build new business opportunities within an assigned territory and/or accounts 

Experience establishing relationships and selling with and through channel partners strongly preferred 

Excellent communication and presentation skills 

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 $122,000 to $187,000and 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. 

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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