Manager, Thought Leadership Writer

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Tanium has given customers the power to manage, secure, and protect their IT environments with speed and scale for over 18 years. Organizations worldwide rely on Tanium to automate IT and be unstoppable. Our track record is a result of our team of passionate, collaborative, and make-it-happen innovators in an ever-changing industry.

As a key member of the Global Corporate Communication team, the Thought Leadership Writer will help manage the execution of our thought‑leadership editorial strategy. Reporting directly to the Editorial Director, this detail‑oriented creator will author, edit, and produce content across legacy and new media such as blog, podcast, social media, digital magazine, and contributed bylines.

Hybrid schedule:
Employees must 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.

• Continuously develop an understanding of the market and the transformative effects of AI, data, cybersecurity, and cloud technologies.
• Work closely with the Editorial Director to execute the editorial vision for Tanium, ensuring that content aligns with our mission and core messaging across multi‑media channels.
• Author thought leadership pieces, reports, and other editorial content as needed.
• Maintain editorial standards for all written content, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and consistency across all publications.
• Proofread, edit, and revise content for grammar, clarity, narrative flow, and adherence to corporate standards.
• Support Tanium newsroom by extending and expanding coverage wins with derivative narratives.
• Ensure technical information is clear, concise, and impactful for executive, technical, and business audiences.
• Collaborate with the social media team to support events and activations, product launches, and other initiatives.
• Conceive, script, and produce multimedia content assets partnering with the marketing creative team as needed.
• Coordinate asset development across the content lifecycle, from ideation to distribution and measurement.

• Bachelor's degree required, preferably in journalism, marketing, or business. Applicants with English or communications degrees and subsequent technical‑domain work experience are encouraged to apply.
• 5+ years of technical writing and/or editorial experience, ideally in IT, cybersecurity, or networking domains.
• Excellent writing and editing skills, with an understanding of journalistic principles and storytelling.
• Experience with product storytelling and collaborating across teams to craft narratives about new products or initiatives.
• Good organizational skills, with the ability to juggle multiple projects and deadlines.
• Strong understanding of content management systems, digital asset management systems, and other web publishing technologies and tools.
• Proven track record of developing and driving content projects from kick‑off to completion.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines:
  Experience working with weekly or daily content delivery in media a plus.
• Experience in vendor‑side product marketing, tech analysis, and/or tech journalism is desired.
• Comfortable collaborating with technical content developers.
• Ability to synthesize insights from multiple streams of information.
• Insatiable curiosity and innate pursuit to find answers to big questions.
• Profound spirit of team collaboration.
• Ability to self‑start while working remotely and staying deeply integrated to the core team.
• Must provide writing and multimedia samples.

Tanium delivers the industry's only true real‑time cloud‑based endpoint management and security offering. Its 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 32 M endpoints around the world, Tanium's customers include Fortune 100 organizations, top US retailers, top US commercial banks, and branches of the U.S.…