# Director, Product Management - Endpoint Policy and Configuration Management **Company**: Tanium **Location**: Addison, TX (Hybrid); Bellevue, WA (Hybrid); Durham, NC (Hybrid); Emeryville, CA (Hybrid) **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $214,000 to $328,000 **Category**: IT **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/tanium/jobs/8127094?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_9c0e8ab1-4ef ## Description Tanium's Product Management team is seeking a Director, Product Management to lead Policy and Configuration Management for the Endpoint Management portfolio. This is a senior individual contributor role responsible for owning the strategy, roadmap, and execution of how Tanium defines, applies, and proves configuration state across the enterprise , giving IT and Security teams a single way to set policy once and enforce it consistently across Windows, Linux, and macOS endpoints, regardless of whether those endpoints are on-premises, remote, or in the cloud. The successful candidate will own the product strategy behind Tanium's centralized policy engine: application allow/deny control, full-disk encryption, device and removable media control, host firewall management, and machine- and user-scoped administrative template (Group Policy-style) policy. Responsibilities: - Own the product strategy, roadmap, and delivery for Tanium's endpoint policy and configuration management capabilities, end to end from ideation to launch. - Drive the roadmap for Windows policy and configuration management , application control (allow/deny rules), full-disk encryption, device and removable storage control, host firewall management, and machine- and user-scoped administrative template policy , ensuring parity with and differentiation from traditional Group Policy infrastructure. - Expand Linux configuration management capabilities (e.g., host firewall management and hardening controls), building out coverage on top of an established Windows foundation. - Own the strategy for legacy migration and baseline import tooling , Group Policy backup import and industry hardening standard support (CIS Build Kits, vendor security baselines) that automatically convert a downloaded benchmark file into a ready-to-enforce compliance policy, complete with conflict detection across overlapping settings and automatic content-set mapping , and for next-generation policy types that supersede legacy equivalents as customers modernize. - Define and evolve policy enforcement state and compliance reporting (applied, partially applied, superseded, not applied) so customers can prove configuration compliance and audit posture at any time. - Partner with incident response, reporting, and guidance capabilities across the platform to turn security findings into durable preventive policy and to surface actionable configuration drift and remediation guidance to operators. - Document customer use cases, product requirements, and business justifications for new policy and configuration investments; prioritize ruthlessly based on customer risk reduction, compliance mandates, and platform leverage. - Partner with Product Marketing and Sales to develop go-to-market motions, enablement, and messaging; support launches, analyst engagements, and customer briefings. - Cultivate strategic customer relationships to validate direction, surface gaps, and turn lighthouse deployments into reference architectures. - Establish and track KPIs , policy adoption, time-to-compliance, configuration drift and remediation rates, and platform pull-through , and use them to drive continuous improvement. - Leverage emerging trends in agentic AI and autonomous IT to shape the roadmap for self-healing, continuously enforced endpoint configuration. Requirements: - Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. - Masters in Computer Science or MBA preferred. - 8+ years of total professional experience in enterprise B2B software, with at least 5 years in product management supporting a SaaS or enterprise platform. - Required: hands-on experience with Windows policy and configuration management , Group Policy, ADMX administrative templates, security baselines, full-disk encryption, application control, or comparable endpoint configuration tooling. - Strong bonus: in-depth experience with Linux configuration management , configuration/hardening frameworks, host firewall management, or compliance baselines for Linux systems. - Demonstrated success owning and shipping policy, compliance, or configuration management products at enterprise scale. - Deep familiarity with endpoint management and IT operations , including the customer workflows that span IT and Security teams. - Strong fluency with compliance frameworks and industry baselines (e.g., CIS benchmarks, vendor security baselines) and how they translate into enforceable policy. - Experience working with executive stakeholders to align on vision, secure investment, and unblock execution. - Proven ability to drive cross-functional alignment across engineering, marketing, and sales without direct authority. Benefits: - Annual base salary range: $214,000 to $328,000. - 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. - Other well-being benefits. - 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities ## Skills ### Required - Windows policy and configuration management - Group Policy - ADMX administrative templates - security baselines - full-disk encryption - application control - endpoint configuration tooling - Linux configuration management - configuration/hardening frameworks - host firewall management - compliance baselines ### Nice to have - Masters in Computer Science - MBA - in-depth experience with Linux configuration management --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/tanium/jobs/8127094?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)