Director, Partner Field Sales

Director, Partner Field Sales
The Basics
Tanium’s partner ecosystem plays a critical role in helping our customers protect their
organization, their people, and what matters most. Our technology allows customers to
redefine what’s possible with the power of certainty. Expanding beyond transaction-focused
product resale only partners, our partner ecosystem delivers mature relationships with
consultancies, advisors, service providers and systems integrators to drive new business and
expansion across customers.
The Director, Partner Field Sales works within Tanium’s Global Partner Sales team to recruit,
enable, and align our sales and technical teams with our partners to achieve regional and area
sales targets. This role will own, develop and execute territory plans, account mapping
exercises and partner services alignment supporting Tanium’s regional sales strategy.
What you’ll do:
• Directly support sales leadership and partners to accelerate planning, customer
prospecting and overall new customer and ARR growth.
• Align to sales regions to drive regional sales engagements with all partner types and
pathways.
• Be the single point of contact for sales leadership within the region.
• Proactively work with partners to build and execute joint business and territory account
mapping plans.
• Educate Tanium sales teams on partners unique value propositions and coach them on
how to work with partners to increase their productivity
• Create a thoughtful partner GTM strategy for all sales leaders within region.
• Align key strategic partners to top prospects and accounts to drive large deals.
• Be highly proficient in understanding and delivering all aspects of Tanium’s value to
both customers and partners.
We’re looking for someone with:• 7 +years of experience in a regional or national partner sales role in the IT Operations
and/or IT Security industry required
• Experience creating a geographic partner business or national/global partnership
• Experience as a quota carrying seller or business development position with a successful
track record strongly preferred
• Proactive style, capable of hands-on problem-solving, with the ability to generate ideas
and solutions
• Ability to effectively communicate with technical, business development, sales, and
executive roles
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to operate independently while managing
internal and external stakeholder relationships
• Ability to enthusiastically evangelize the Tanium message to strategic partners and their
customers
• Desire to own all parts of a partner lifecycle, starting with profiling/recruitment
• Proven success with sales ability and demonstrated knowledge of sales process

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.

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