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Director of Strategic Accounts - Bay Area

Tanium · San Francisco, CA · On-site

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About Tanium

Tanium is a unified endpoint management and security platform: agentic AI for real-time visibility, patching, and risk remediation across endpoints. Backed by a16z and IVP.

About the role

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.

What they're looking for

  • 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
More about this role

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.

  • 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
  • Significant enterprise software...

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