Senior Director, Sales Enablement

Tanium; Texas; Hybride; USD 250 000 - 385 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Equity awards

Comprehensive benefits (medical,Dental

Vision

401(k) with company match

Résumé du poste

Tanium is seeking a Sr. Director of Sales Enablement to lead the global sales enablement team, shaping training, onboarding, and certification across the enterprise.

You will drive an ambitious program aligned with our AI-driven product roadmap, ensuring the sales force can articulate the value of AI/agentic capabilities. In this hybrid role, you’ll oversee onboarding, annual kickoffs, and continuous training, partnering with Product Marketing and Product to keep messaging current as the roadmap

Qualifications

• BS/BA degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5 years in sales training design, development, and delivery.
• Minimum 5 years managing and directing an enablement team.
• Authorized to work in the U.S.

Responsabilités

• Develop a training and enablement roadmap for the enterprise sales team.
• Create and implement a training strategy to boost productivity and performance.
• Design curriculum covering market, competition, products, services, and sales processes.
• Own enablement for the AI-driven product roadmap and messaging impact.
• Collaborate with Product Marketing to keep training materials current.
• Lead onboarding, annual kickoffs, and ongoing training programs.
• Coach and provide feedback to the sales team.
• Monitor training effectiveness via evaluations and surveys.
• Travel up to 10% as needed.

Connaissances

Sales enablement

Training design

Team leadership

Global scope

Formation

BS/BA degree or equivalent experience

Outils

LMS

Description du poste

The Basics:

The Sr. Director, Sales Enablement will lead the sales enablement team in developing, implementing and improving ongoing training and skills development to benefit the Global sales team. This includes overseeing the new hire onboarding process, ongoing training, certification, and account planning. In this role, the Sr. Director, Sales Enablement will be ambitious and forward thinking – someone who continuously sets the bar higher with the enablement program. This role requires experience running large scale enablement programs with a global scope.

Tanium's product roadmap is increasingly AI-driven and agentic — including Atlas, our AI/agentic operating system — and this role will be central to ensuring the global sales team can sell that shift with fluency and conviction as new AI-powered capabilities continue to ship.

This position follows the Company’s hybrid schedule which currently requires employees to work in the office at one of the following locations a minimum of three days per week: Addison, TX; Bellevue, WA; Durham, NC; Emeryville, CA; or Reston, VA.

What you’ll do:

• Work with sales leaders to accelerate sales transformation throughout the organization by developing a training and enablement roadmap for the enterprise sales team
• Develop and implement training strategy for the sales organization that increases salesforce productivity and performance
• Design curriculum to cover market, competition, company, products and services, sales processes, sales methodology, sales tools and skills training
• Build and own the enablement strategy for Tanium's AI-driven product roadmap, ensuring sellers can clearly and confidently articulate the value of AI/agentic capabilities
• Partner with Product Marketing and Product to keep messaging, positioning, and competitive differentiation current in training materials as the AI/agentic roadmap evolves
• Lead the Sales Enablement team to enhance a comprehensive onboarding plan, annual sales kickoffs, and continuous training program for Sales team members
• Motivate, coach and provide feedback on an ongoing basis
• Assist in efforts to monitor and measure training and development program effectiveness based on new hire evaluations, quarterly surveys, retention statistics, and regular feedback from participants and leaders
• Up to 10% travel as needed

We’re looking for someone with:

Minimum

• BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in sales training design, development, and delivery
• Minimum of 5 years managing and directing an enablement team
• Authorized to work in the U.S.

Preferred

• 10 years of experience in sales training design, development, and delivery
• Ability to build, implement, and facilitate online, classroom, peer group, and role play/flip the classroom methods of sales training
• Familiarity with common sales methodologies such as Challenger and Meddic
• Experience working with an LMS
• Previous software sales experience

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 $250,000 to $385,000. 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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