Director of Strategic Accounts - Bay Area

Tanium; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Medical, dental and vision benefits

Health savings account

401(k) with company match

Life, accident & disability insurance

Employee assistance programs

Job summary

Tanium is hiring a Director of Strategic Accounts in San Francisco to drive opportunities and position the Tanium platform within assigned territory. You will manage complex sales cycles, engage C-suite contacts, and exceed quotas while collaborating with partners and marketing to generate a healthy pipeline.

You’ll forecast with SFDC precision, lead webinars or in-person sessions, and travel as needed. The role offers equity and comprehensive benefits with a direct impact on strategic customers.

Qualifications

• Experience closing large, complex software transactions with major customers.
• Proven ability to build and manage executive-level relationships (C-suite).
• Track record of consistently meeting or exceeding quota.

Responsibilities

• Articulate the value of the Tanium platform to decision makers and manage complex sales cycles.
• Nurture relationships within territory/accounts and present to the C-suite.
• Collaborate with Partner and Marketing to support prospecting and sales efforts.

Skills

Enterprise software sales

C-suite engagement

Quota attainment

Team collaboration

SFDC hygiene

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

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
• Background building and cultivating relationships with partner ecosystems to bring a partner-centric go-to-market approach to our customers
• The ability to evangelize and build new business opportunities within an assigned territory and/or accounts.
• Excellent communication and presentation 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 toinnovate faster, stay resilient and move business forward with confidence, at scale. 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 $165,000 to $253,000 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.

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.

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