Event Manager, Tradeshows

The Basics

Tanium is seeking an Event Manager, Tradeshows to own the end-to-end planning, logistics, and execution of Tanium's presence at third-party tradeshows, industry conferences, and sponsored events across North America and globally. This role is central to how Tanium shows up in the market — ensuring every booth, sponsorship, and event activation reflects the brand with precision, generates qualified pipeline, and delivers a measurable return on investment.

The ideal candidate is an experienced B2B event professional with deep expertise in tradeshow operations — someone equally comfortable negotiating a contract with a general services contractor, managing a $1M+ event budget, and briefing a field sales team on pre-show engagement strategy. They are operationally excellent, calm under pressure, highly organized, and proactive about identifying and resolving issues before they become problems on the show floor. This role requires approximately 25-30% travel.

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

• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of Tanium's tradeshow and third-party event program — from event selection and sponsorship contracting through on-site execution, lead handoff, and post-event analysis

• Develop and manage the annual tradeshow calendar in alignment with Marketing, Sales, and Field Marketing priorities — evaluating event opportunities, recommending investments, and  maintaining  a portfolio that maximizes pipeline impact per dollar spent

• Lead all pre-event  logistics  including venue coordination, booth design and fabrication, A/V and production, shipping and drayage, staffing schedules, housing blocks, and sponsorship fulfillment

• Manage relationships with e vent organizers , general service contractors, A/V vendors, swag suppliers, and other external partners — negotiating contracts, managing deliverables, and holding vendors accountable to quality and timelines

• Build and manage event budgets from  initial  forecast through final reconciliation — tracking  spend  against plan,  identifying  savings opportunities, and reporting ROI to marketing leadership

• Develop and execute integrated pre-show and post-show campaign strategies in partnership with Demand Generation, Field Marketing, and Digital teams — driving registration, booth traffic, meeting bookings, and lead follow-up

• Partner closely with Field Sales and Sales Development teams to brief attendees, coordinate executive meetings and VIP experiences, and ensure event staff are prepared to engage prospects and customers effectively

• Manage tradeshow collateral, swag, and branded materials —  maintaining  inventory, coordinating production timelines, and ensuring all assets are on-brand and arrive on time

• Serve as the primary on-site event lead at major tradeshows — managing booth setup and teardown, coordinating staff, troubleshooting issues in real time, and ensuring flawless execution

• Instrument and track event performance metrics including leads generated, pipeline influenced, meetings held, cost per lead, and attendee satisfaction — delivering structured post-event debriefs and recommendations to improve future programs

• Evaluate new tradeshow and sponsorship opportunities — conducting ROI analysis, benchmarking against peer companies, and making data-driven recommendations on where Tanium should invest or pull back

• Ensure all event activities  comply with  brand standards, accessibility requirements, and company policies

• Work with Corporate Events team on other large events such as the annual user conference, Converge, and annual Sales Kickoff.

We’re looking for someone with

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing , Communications, Event Management, or a related field

• 5+ years of experience in B2B event  or field  marketing ,   with  a track record  of independently owning and executing large-scale events (1,000+ attendees or booth footprints of 400+ sq ft)

• Deep  expertise  in tradeshow operations including exhibit design and fabrication, general service contractor management, drayage, A/V production, housing blocks, and on-site  logistics

• Proven ability to build and manage event budgets of $500K or more, with strong financial discipline and experience reconciling actuals against forecast

• Experience managing multiple concurrent events across different geographies and time zones

• Proficiency  with event management and registration platforms (e.g., Cvent,  Bizzabo ,  Swoogo , or Splash) and CRM systems (Salesforce)  is preferred

• Strong vendor management and contract negotiation skills — able to hold external partners accountable and resolve issues quickly

• Experience developing pre- and post-event integrated marketing programs in partnership with demand generation and digital teams

• Exceptional project management skills — meticulous attention to detail, ability to manage complex workstreams simultaneously, and  a track record  of delivering events on time and on budget

• Strong communicator and cross-functional collaborator — able to align Sales, Marketing, and Executive stakeholders around event strategy and  logistics

• Cybersecurity, enterprise software, or B2B technology industry experience strongly preferred

• Experience with Federal or public sector event programs (e.g., AFCEA, ACT-IAC,  GovSummit ) is a plus

• Willingness and ability to travel  approximately  25-30 % of the time, including weekends for event setup and teardown

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.

As a global organization with stakeholders around the world, 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.

Our commitment to excellence and innovation has earned us a place on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years, and we continue to be recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

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 $90,000 to $135,000 . 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,