Director, Product Management - Endpoint Policy and Configuration Management

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• Define and evolve policy enforcement state and compliance reporting (applied, partially applied, superseded, not applied) so customers can prove configuration compliance and audit posture at any time.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