Sales Operations and Strategy Intern – Data Analytics

The Basics:

Tanium is looking for a curious, driven, and hardworking individual to join its Global Sales Strategy & Operations organization as a 2022 Summer Intern. This role will interact with various teams and levels of management, and the right candidate must have the ability to communicate with multiple levels across Sales, Finance, and other Operations teams.

This person must be an analytical and critical thinker, a problem solver, a curious deep diver, and a clear communicator. She/he must be able to roll-up their sleeves, and work directly with the models and data, while also keeping the bigger picture in mind when sharing any findings or narratives with the rest of the business. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, independent, confident speaking to a group, and naturally inquisitive. This person may also maintain strategic alignment with sales operations and sales leadership, provide value-add business insights and organizational support, and build programs and efficient processes that drive growth.

The position can be located anywhere in the continental United States.

What you’ll do:

• Join a high-performing, geographically dispersed team to enable critical insight and operational excellence across regional sales organizations
• Build robust forecasting models and KPI dashboards to communicate business performance
• Drive decision making for the business by analyzing data, identifying trends, and developing best practices
• Develop processes to ensure systems contain accurate, reporting-ready data
• Support ad-hoc data requests in support of Sales initiatives
• Maintain up-to-date documentation libraries for key systems, metrics, and reporting packages
• Proactively identify and communicate business trends to Sales and Finance management

We’re looking for someone with:

• Bachelor’s Degree candidate, majoring in business or a related field (e.g. Computer Science, Business Analytics, Statistics, Business Management, Economics, Finance or other)
• 2-3 years of college or university classes/credits
• Experience developing insights from complex data and dealing with relational databases
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presenting to executives and large group

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working within a high-growth, technology company
• Experience partnering directly with leaders at the VP level or above
• Experience with Power BI, Tableau, Periscope and/or equivalent
• Experience with SQL, Snowflake, Impala, R, Power Query, Python and/or equivalent

About Tanium 

Tanium offers an endpoint management and security platform built for the world’s most demanding IT environments. Many of the world’s largest and most sophisticated organizations —  including nearly half of the Fortune 100, top retailers and financial institutions, and multiple branches of the U.S. Armed Forces — rely on Tanium to make confident decisions, operate efficiently, and remain resilient against disruption. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list of “Top 100 Private Companies in Cloud Computing” for five consecutive years and ranks 4th on FORTUNE’s list of the “Best Workplaces in Technology 2020.” 

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. 

Taking care of our team members 

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.