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SDR & BDR

Sales Intern – Summer 2027

Tanium logoTanium$25/hrAddison, TX (Hybrid)Listed 1mo ago

At $52,000/yr, this role pays less than the middle Sales Development (SDR & BDR) opening on the board today ($71.2k/yr); the usual band for that kind of seat is $57.8k–$112k/yr.

The posting

The position is a 4-days per week onsite role based in Addison, TX.

The hourly rate for this internship is $25.00. This hourly rate is an estimate for what Tanium will pay an intern. The actual rate offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, education, skills, training, and experience. In addition to an hourly rate, interns will be eligible for 401k matching and a monthly allowance for communications reimbursement.

What you’ll do

  • Schedule highly qualified meetings for your field sales team members using a defined sales methodology and utilizing sales strategies within your territory
  • Manage lead generation and follow up activity on inbound leads for your territory
  • Leverage world class tools such as Salesforce, ZoomInfo, Outreach, LinkedIn Navigator to drive the biggest impact across your territory
  • Collaborate with sales, marketing, partners, and product teams on messaging, field events and defined campaigns
  • Through regular trainings and enablement, build a strong understanding of the competitive landscape and current trends in the marketplace
  • Work with your leadership team to build strong communications skills and learn how to deliver effective reporting back to the business
  • Meet or exceed minimum weekly activity metrics: calls, emails, conversations and meetings
  • Work closely with your team and business partners in a highly collaborative environment

We’re looking for someone with

  • Authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future
  • Available to work full-time from June 7, 2027 – August 13, 2027.
  • A currently enrolled Bachelor's degree candidate, preferably studying business or related area, ideally with a 3.5+ GPA
  • Graduating in either December 2027 or Spring 2028
  • Familiar with conducting cold outreach activities, ideally bringing experience from a prior commission-based job or internship (in any industry)
  • Eager to learn, committed to getting 1% better every day and open to feedback
  • Competitive with a mentality that drives you to exceed
  • Excited about learning technology and helping helping customers solve some of the most pressing needs in Security and IT
  • Strong in building relationships; being willing to do this across the business and becoming a trusted resource for the team
  • Able to work closely with a high energy, dynamic sales team in the ongoing optimization of strategic sales approaches

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. Interns and other Tanium contractors are eligible for VTO after 90 days of employment.

For more information on how Tanium processes your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy. Tanium is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected Veteran status, or other legally protected categories. If you require a reasonable accommodation in searching for a job opening, completing an application, interviewing, or completing any pre-employment testing or requirements, please contact accommodations@tanium.com. For more information refer to the “Know Your Rights” poster which is available here - https://www.eeoc.gov/poster . Please be aware of job offers coming from people claiming to be Tanium employees. Tanium employees will only use @tanium.com email addresses to communicate with you, will have video interviews with you, and will never ask you for money. This link leads to the machine readable files that are made available in response to the federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and includes negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed amounts between health plans and healthcare providers. The machine-readable files are formatted to allow researchers, regulators, and application developers to more easily access and analyze data. For more information on how Tanium processes your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.

Tanium is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected Veteran status, or other legally protected categories. If you require a reasonable accommodation in searching for a job opening, completing an application, interviewing, or completing any pre-employment testing or requirements, please contact accommodations@tanium.com . For more information refer to the “Know Your Rights” poster which is available here - https://www.eeoc.gov/poster .

Please be aware of job offers coming from people claiming to be Tanium employees. Tanium employees will only use @tanium.com email addresses to communicate with you, will have video interviews with you, and will never ask you for money.

This link leads to the machine readable files that are made available in response to the federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and includes negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed amounts between health plans and healthcare providers. The machine-readable files are formatted to allow researchers, regulators, and application developers to more easily access and analyze data.

For more information on how Tanium processes your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy .

Taken from Tanium's own posting, last seen live on 31 Oct 2026.

The application

Your details and CV, then 6 questions.

Have readyCVCover letter (optional)LinkedIn (optional)
  1. 1.
    What is your current GPA?Pick one (7 options)
  2. 2.
    What degree are you currently pursuing?Pick one: Associates · Bachelor's · Master's · PhD
  3. 3.
    What is your expected graduation date?Pick one: Before Fall 2027 · Fall 2027 · Spring 2028 · Summer 2028 · After Summer 2028
  4. 4.
    This is a hybrid position, which requires in person attendance a minimum of 3 days each week in Addison, TX. Are you able to meet this requirement?Yes or no
  5. 5.
    Does your work authorization require Tanium to sponsor or renew an employment-based visa now or in the future?Yes or no
  6. 6.
    Are you lawfully authorized to work in the US or can you provide proof of employment eligibility upon hire?Yes or no

From Tanium's apply page, checked 30 Oct 2026.

About Tanium

Endpoint management and security platform giving IT and security teams real-time control of devices.

Pay schedule: Employee base salary, with commission on the selling roles that each posting marks as eligible.

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