Editorial and Content Writer

The Basics:

For over 18 years, Tanium has given customers the power to manage, secure, and protect their information technology environments with speed and scale. Organizations worldwide, including 10 of the top 20 banks, five of the top 10 global retailers, and 40 of the Fortune 100, 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 Editorial and Content Writer will plan and write editorial and product-centric content that drives cross-funnel engagement and fuels growth marketing strategies. Reporting directly to the Editorial Director, this detail-oriented creator will advance past traditional formats and experiment with how content can best support the Tanium customer journey.

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:

• 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 across content needs, such as content marketing, account-based campaigns, email nurturing, and customer advocacy programs.
• Collaborate with the Growth Marketing team for needs analysis, theme development, asset performance measurement, and support data-informed content decisions.
• Ensure that content is customer-centric and aligned with our mission and core messaging across channels.
• Apply and enforce editorial standards for all written content, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and consistency.
• Proofread, edit, and revise content for grammar, clarity, narrative flow, and adherence to corporate standards.
• Ensure technical information is clear, concise, and impactful for executive, technical, and business audiences.

We’re looking for someone with:

• 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.
• 3+ 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 marketing copy best practices.
• Experience with product storytelling and collaborating across teams to craft narratives about new products or initiatives.
• Strong organizational skills, with the ability to juggle multiple projects and deadlines.
• Experience editing technical and thought-leadership content.
• 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 fine 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.

About Tanium 

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 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 companies, system integrators, and managed service providers to help customers realize the full potential of their IT investments. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for nine consecutive years and ranks on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information on The Power of Certainty™, 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.   

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 $70,000 to $210,000. 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 plan, 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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