Senior Director, UX / UI

The Basics

As a Tanium User Experience Designer, you will be tasked with designing best-of-breed products as part of a small and highly agile design and development team. Tanium focuses on a strong customer engagement model and feedback process to ensure our products are designed the right way from the beginning. When new product ideas are identified, user experience designers are responsible for iterating and designing the products from the ground up, while continuously iterating with product management, engineering, and customers for feedback and input.

We are looking for an experienced User Experience Designer with a proven record of delivering elegant solutions that address our customers’ most challenging business problems and opportunities. The best candidate will have several years of experience collaborating effectively with Product Management and Engineering in agile and lean delivery methodologies.

What you’ll do

• Work with other UX designers, engineers, and product managers to understand users’ needs and behaviors.
• Define the user model, interactions, and user interface for new and existing Tanium products and features.
• Develop high-level and/or detailed storyboards, mockups, and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.
• Work closely with product development and engineering teams from initial idea to full delivery of product or features.

We’re looking for someone with

• Education
  • Bachelor’s Degree in User Experience Design, Human Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Science, or related discipline, or equivalent experience required.
• Experience
  • Experience solving complex design problems for web interactions or software solutions required.
  • Demonstrated ability to create low and high fidelity mockups and/or prototypes required.
  • Expert in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, or related applications like Sketch or Omnigraffle required.
  • At least 5 years of experience solving complex user experience problems preferred.
  • Experienced in user research, persona creation, or similar activities preferred.
  • Ability to generate basic HTML and CSS preferred.
  • Experience in enterprise software preferred.
• Other
  • Understanding of basic web software required.
  • Expert understanding of design principles and their application preferred.
  • Written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to articulate alternative approaches required.
  • Portfolio and work samples including user-centered design skills preferred.

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 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 annual base salary range for this full-time position is $190,000 to $565,000. 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 plans, 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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