# Senior Director, Sales Enablement at Tanium

> Hybrid · United States · Director+ · Other · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Atanium%3A8158150 (read 2026-11-04).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Tanium](https://alderhq.app/companies/tanium)
- Location text: Addison, TX (Hybrid); Bellevue, WA (Hybrid); Durham, NC (Hybrid); Emeryville, CA (Hybrid); Reston, VA (Hybrid); Emeryville, CA Office
- Where it can be done from (inferred): Hybrid · United States (evidence: "Location: Addison, TX (Hybrid); Bellevue, WA (Hybrid); Durham, NC (Hybrid); Emeryville, CA")
- Posted: 2026-08-26 (70 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-02 · last verified: 2026-11-04
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/tanium/jobs/8158150

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: not posted

## Description (the employer's text)

### The Basics

The Sr. Director, Sales Enablement will lead the sales enablement team in developing, implementing and improving ongoing training and skills development to benefit the Global sales team. This includes overseeing the new hire onboarding process, ongoing training, certification, and account planning. In this role, the Sr. Director, Sales Enablement will be ambitious and forward thinking – someone who continuously sets the bar higher with the enablement program. This role requires experience running large scale enablement programs with a global scope.

Tanium's product roadmap is increasingly AI-driven and agentic — including Atlas, our AI/agentic operating system — and this role will be central to ensuring the global sales team can sell that shift with fluency and conviction as new AI-powered capabilities continue to ship.

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: Addison, TX; Bellevue, WA; Durham, NC; Emeryville, CA; or Reston, VA.

### What you’ll do

- Work with sales leaders to accelerate sales transformation throughout the organization by developing a training and enablement roadmap for the enterprise sales team
- Develop and implement training strategy for the sales organization that increases salesforce productivity and performance
- Design curriculum to cover market, competition, company, products and services, sales processes, sales methodology, sales tools and skills training
- Build and own the enablement strategy for Tanium's AI-driven product roadmap, ensuring sellers can clearly and confidently articulate the value of AI/agentic capabilities
- Partner with Product Marketing and Product to keep messaging, positioning, and competitive differentiation current in training materials as the AI/agentic roadmap evolves
- Lead the Sales Enablement team to enhance a comprehensive onboarding plan, annual sales kickoffs, and continuous training program for Sales team members
- Motivate, coach and provide feedback on an ongoing basis
- Assist in efforts to monitor and measure training and development program effectiveness based on new hire evaluations, quarterly surveys, retention statistics, and regular feedback from participants and leaders
- Up to 10% travel as needed
### We’re looking for someone with

Minimum

- BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in sales training design, development, and delivery
- Minimum of 5 years managing and directing an enablement team
- Authorized to work in the U.S.
Preferred

- 10 years of experience in sales training design, development, and delivery
- Ability to build, implement, and facilitate online, classroom, peer group, and role play/flip the classroom methods of sales training
- Familiarity with common sales methodologies such as Challenger and Meddic
- Experience working with an LMS
- Previous software sales experience
### 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.

---
Data: alder (https://alderhq.app). Cite https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Atanium%3A8158150 and the date you read it. Observed facts come from the employer's own listing; location reach, level, family and skills are inferences.
