Product Manager - Virtual & Physical Appliances

Tanium; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Tanium is seeking a Product Manager for Platform to own and drive the roadmap for core platform components, partnering with engineering to ideate and launch. The role emphasizes customer outcomes, enterprise readiness, and cross-functional influence across the organization.

Ideal candidates have 3–5 years in product roles for SaaS or appliance solutions, with strong communications and stakeholder alignment skills, plus experience in Linux environments and platform services.

Qualifications

• BA/BS required; MA preferred.
• 3–5 years of product experience with SaaS, appliance, or equivalent.
• Proven ability to work with business stakeholders to drive definition and alignment.
• Experience with Linux environments is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery of the product roadmap from ideation to launch in partnership with engineering teams.
• Define the strategic short- and long-term technical roadmap and identify new opportunities.
• Document customer use cases, product requirements, and business justifications for new feature development.
• Partner with internal teams to create enablement and training materials for new features and updates.
• Support product marketing initiatives, partner relationships, and opportunities to accelerate adoption and build Tanium’s brand.
• Collaborate with business and technical teams to solve daily challenges.
• Leverage marketplace trends to develop strategic solutions.

Skills

SaaS product management

Cross-functional collaboration

Linux knowledge

Stakeholder management

Education

BA/BS

MA preferred

Tools

Linux

Job description

Note: This role is Hybrid in office 3 days per week

The Basics

Our Product Management team is actively seeking a Product Manager for Platform to join our passionate, driven and fast-paced team. In this role you will be responsible for the development and business success of Tanium products that are part of the core platform including hosting, services, and appliance. You will own and maintain the product roadmap from ideation to launch of Tanium’s platform components in partnership with our engineering teams. You will be doing this while keeping in mind customer needs, satisfaction, & adoption.

Ideal candidates are entrepreneurial, have intuition and an understanding of what makes an enterprise software business successful. Candidates will be a strong communicator who can bring their industry expertise to drive vision and development cross-functionally across all levels of the organization. Must have a successful track record of working with stakeholders on new products.

This is an individual contributor role.

What you’ll do

• Own the delivery of the product roadmap from ideation to launch in partnership with the engineering teams.
• Collaborate with other Product Managers across the organization to define the strategic short- and long-term technical roadmap of products and identify new opportunities.
• Document customer use cases, product requirements, and business justifications for new feature development.
• Partner with internal teams on development of appropriate materials to ensure successful enablement and training on new features and updates.
• Support product marketing initiatives, partner relationships, and other opportunities to accelerate the adoption your products and to build Tanium’s brand
• Work closely with the business and technical teams to find solutions to daily challenges.
• Leverage innovation and trends in the marketplace to develop strategic solutions.

We’re looking for someone with

Education

BA/BS required

MA preferred

Experience

• 3 – 5 years of product supporting a SaaS solution, appliance or equivalent experience with demonstrated ability to discover opportunities, and then define and deliver products.
• Proven track record of working with business stakeholders to drive definition and alignment
• Working knowledge of Linux environments and enterprise IT infrastructure strongly preferred.
• Experience partnering with system administrators, infrastructure teams, or owning products related to appliances, hosting, platform services, or systems management is a plus.

Other

• Align with the Tanium values: we win as a team, we do the right thing, and we are unstoppable
• Intuition to identify greenfield (or neglected) markets that align with Tanium’s platform and present opportunities for rapid growth
• Willingness to take on firmly entrenched competitors with creative approaches to technology, and tenacious pursuit to build and grow a product’s customer base
• Ability to establish and nurture strong customer champions for a product that can serve as its advocates and its advisory board
• Strong written communication, verbal communication and presentation skills
• Adept at understanding and navigating organizations to inspire and influence internal and external customers
• Grit; ability to deal with and overcome challenges and ability to deal with ambiguity

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 $135,000 to $210,000. 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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