R&D & Strategic Finance Director

Tanium Inc.; Washington (NC); Hybrid; USD 206,000 - 316,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Generous benefits package

Job summary

Tanium Inc. seeks a Director of R&D and Strategic Finance to partner with Engineering, Product, and Strategy, owning budgets for these orgs and delivering advanced financial modeling and insights to drive the multi-year plan.

The role involves executive-level exposure, guiding pricing, partnerships, and GTM strategies, and leading a small budget/forecasting team in a hybrid, multi-location setup.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or Finance
• 8+ years of strategic/corporate finance, investment banking/management consulting, or experience at a high-growth technology company
• Experience leveraging AI to automate processes and improve efficiency
• Prior experience partnering with R&D organizations or GTM organizations, preferably in technology/software with subscription/SaaS models
• Experience working on complex business problems, leading to assessment of options, recommendations, and action plans
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to quickly craft precise and elegant responses.
• Advanced in PowerPoint and experience with PowerBI or other data visualization tools.

Responsibilities

• Own budget management for the R&D organizations (Engineering and Product), including planning, forecasting, and variance analysis
• Build and maintain relationships with R&D leadership to identify and model growth initiatives, drive pivotal investment decisions, and provide recommendations to optimize return on strategic investments
• Lead and develop a small team responsible for budgeting, financial modeling, and project execution across R&D
• Prepare high-quality business analyses, insights, and modeling on ad hoc projects for the COO, CFO, CTO, and other executive stakeholders
• Build and improve management reporting and analyses to provide timely, insightful, and actionable information for data-driven decision-making
• Develop a deep understanding of Tanium's product and go-to-market model, translating into operational and financial information to monitor business health
• Drive continuous improvement within financial processes, tools, and models to provide line of sight to risks and opportunities
• Comfortable working in high-growth environments and operating with ambiguity

Skills

Financial modeling

Executive communication

Strategic finance

R&D partnership

Data-driven decision making

AI for automation

Budgeting

Power BI

PowerPoint

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business or Finance

Tools

Power BI

PowerPoint

Job description

Tanium Inc. seeks a Director of R&D and Strategic Finance to partner with Engineering, Product, and Strategy, owning budgets for these orgs and delivering advanced financial modeling and insights to drive the multi-year plan.

The role involves executive-level exposure, guiding pricing, partnerships, and GTM strategies, and leading a small budget/forecasting team in a hybrid, multi-location setup.