Director of Strategic Accounts - Tennessee/Louisiana Enterprise

DSA– Enterprise Sales

The Basics

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. 

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 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 

We’re looking for someone with

• 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. 
• Excellent communication and presentation skills 
• Candidate should be located in Tennessee or Louisiana

About Tanium 

Tanium delivers the industry's only true real-time cloud-based endpoint management and security offering. Its converged endpoint management (XEM) platform is real-time, seamless, and autonomous, allowing security-conscious organizations to break down silos between IT and Security operations that results in reduced complexity, cost, and risk. Securing more than 32M endpoints around the world, Tanium's customers include Fortune 100 organizations, top US retailers, top US commercial banks, and branches of the U.S. Military. It also partners with the world's biggest technology …