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Director of Strategic Accounts - Northern California/Nevada SLED

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139K-213K Annually
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Hiring Remotely in US
139K-213K Annually
Expert/Leader
Owns strategic enterprise software sales across Northern California and Nevada state, local government, and higher education accounts. Responsibilities include generating and closing complex opportunities, managing executive relationships, forecasting, maintaining CRM hygiene, developing partner and marketing collaboration, presenting to customers, building pipeline, and exceeding quota. Candidates must live in Northern California and have significant enterprise software sales experience, SLED relationships, C-suite presentation skills, and a record of exceeding sales targets.
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Director of Strategic Accounts - Northern California/Nevada SLED
 
The Basics
As a Director of Strategic Accounts (DSA) on the Tanium SLED 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. 
 
What you’ll do
  • 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 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, MEDDPICC proficiency, and maintaining excellent SFDC hygiene 
  • Conduct online webinars or in-person presentations to generate qualified leads 
  • Travel as needed
We’re looking for someone with
  • Proven success selling to State/Local Government and Education accounts in the designated region (Northern California - Local/Higher Ed  and Nevada- SLED)  
  • Candidates must live in Northern California.
  • Candidates that have strong relationships within Local Government & Higher Ed accounts will be prioritized.
  • Significant enterprise software sales experience, generating and closing large & complex software transactions with the largest SLED customers in the designated 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 leveraging an existing network of partners, distributors, and VARs to enable rapid growth and exceed sales objectives. 
  • The ability to evangelize and build new business opportunities within an assigned territory and/or accounts. 
  • Excellent communication and executive presentation skills. 

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 $139,000 to $213,000 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.

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 [email protected]. For more information refer to the “Know Your Rights” poster which is available here - https://www.eeoc.gov/poster.

Please be aware of job offers coming from people claiming to be Tanium employees. Tanium employees will only use @tanium.com email addresses to communicate with you, will have video interviews with you, and will never ask you for money.

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