Compensation Overview

The Basics:

Tanium is looking for talented and energetic individuals to be part of our growing business. The Sales Development Manager will manage a team of Sales Development Representatives (SDRs) focused on driving quality pipeline to the business. In the past year, we have entered our fastest growing segment that presents a massive opportunity for growth minded individuals to not only build a winning business, but to run past their goals. This position will provide leadership and planning as well as coaching and training to drive the very best results for the business. You will be closely aligned with sales leadership, field sales, sales operations, marketing, partners, and alliances. The successful candidate for this role should thoroughly understand outbound activities, modern sales prospecting practices, sales opportunity qualification, and would have a proven track record leading teams in the Technology sector. Demonstration of a passion for coaching, mentoring, and developing others is essential, as well as thriving in a rapid change and growth environment.

What you’ll do:

• Drive and participate in the recruitment of the very best talent for the SDR organization
• Use best practice sales management disciplines to train, coach and develop the SDRs in close collaboration with our enablement team
• Build a team-first, winning culture that focuses on career progression and performance
• Be metrics driven – continually optimize SDR processes as well as messaging, cadences, and campaigns for optimal results
• Using analytics to help coach, understand, and drive impactful results to the business while maintaining accurate forecasting and reporting
• Partner across the business to create and implement SDR programs focused on customer acquisition
• Train and manage the SDR team on how to prospect, qualify leads, and exceed goals
• Prioritize 1:1’s and coaching to develop your teams’ talent to grow into new opportunities at Tanium
• Track follow up on daily MQLs, contact us form submissions, live chat inquiries, and other inbound sales-ready leads
• Partner with regional sales directors and field marketing to execute cross-functional demand generation in key accounts for our field sales team
• Work with marketing and sales leadership to optimize pipeline and revenue creation

The Right Candidate Will:

• Bachelor’s degree with a preference for Business or Technology or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of experience managing an SDR or Inside Sales team
• Strong knowledge of Salesforce, LinkedIn Navigator, Outreach and other best in class tools
• Expertise in prospecting and sales best practices
• Proven ability to spot talent, hire and grow SDRs to be Sales rock-stars
• Be a great coach and have solid people skills to foster a strong team — A natural leader
• You are approachable, a natural problem solver, and have grit
• Big picture thinking and not content with the status quo

About Tanium 

Tanium, the industry’s only provider of converged endpoint management (XEM), leads the paradigm shift in legacy approaches to managing complex security and technology environments. Only Tanium protects every team, endpoint, and workflow from cyber threats by integrating IT, Operations, Security, and Risk into a single platform that delivers comprehensive visibility across devices, a unified set of controls, and a common taxonomy for a single shared purpose: to protect critical information and infrastructure at scale. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for six consecutive years and ranks on Fortune’s list of the Best Large Workplaces in Technology. In fact, more than half of the Fortune 100 and the U.S. armed forces trust Tanium to protect people; defend data; secure systems; and see and control every endpoint, team, and workflow everywhere. That’s the power of certainty. Visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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.  

We are an organization with stakeholders around the world and 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.

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 target annual base salary range for this full-time position is $70,000 to $215,000 and this position will also be commission eligible. 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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