Customer Success Manager

The Basics

This customer-facing role is critical to helping customers receive value from their investment in Tanium and to ensure Tanium maintains its enviable base of high value, loyal customers that rely on Tanium to manage all their endpoints. The successful candidate will be able to support a significant set of customers and use data and qualitative feedback to decide how best to engage resources to drive desired results.

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: Durham, NC.

What You'll Do

Ensure successful business outcomes for customers that lead to world-class retention and expansion for Tanium by collaborating with an account team of Sales, Solution Engineers, Domain Architects, and more

Work with senior team members to understand the unique complexity and segmentation of the customers you serve and create the best path to full Tanium platform adoption and expansion, leveraging your understanding of not only the customer’s environment but also insights as to how to overcome obstacles to implement new technologies

Develop and maintain the necessary relationships with customers to ensure alignment to their business needs

Identify where Tanium can be further integrated into customer business processes and controls to increase ROI and expand into new solution areas

Perform activities and data management that help to drive adoption and value against an agreed-upon plan with the customer. This may include artifact creation (including Value Plans for customers), action and risk tracking, and updating internal data systems such as Salesforce and/or Gainsight

Support strategically focused Executive Business Reviews, alongside Sales, Solution Engineers, and wider account team members

Contribute to internal practice development efforts to continually drive maturity and improvement of our Customer Success function

Maintain a strong understanding of all aspects of the Tanium solutions and their value to customers

We're Looking For

• Education
• BA/BS or equivalent experience preferred

Experience

5 plus years of experience in Customer Success, Account Management, Sales, Renewals, or Service Management / Professional Services, preferably in a SaaS business model

Has demonstrated consulting and project management skills, experience with building strategic relationships that drive business value for customers

Working knowledge of endpoint technology and the areas of major business outcomes for a CIO

Tanium Certified Operator (nice to have)

Tanium Certified Administrator (nice to have)

You are

A highly organized self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is comfortable working in ambiguity

Curious, willing to learn from others in your discipline, your customers, and other roles at Tanium

• Willing to contribute suggestions and ideas to further customer and Tanium goals
• Eager to become an expert in demonstrating value and return on investment to our customers

Eager to learn technology foundations and become a technical advisor on the Tanium platform and solutions.

A strong communicator and intuitive listener

Professional, insightful, and values-driven

Motivated to help to solve the toughest IT problems faced by organizations today

Other

• Travel ranging from 5 - 15% within regional territory
• Onsite / customer-located work as deemed necessary by the customer and/or account team

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 $88,000 to $134,000. 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.

Tanium is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected Veteran status, or other legally protected categories. If you require a reasonable accommodation in searching for a job opening, completing an application, interviewing, or completing any pre-employment testing or requirements, please contact accommodations@tanium.com. For more information refer to the “Know Your Rights” poster which is available here - https://www.eeoc.gov/poster.

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