Senior Director of Software Engineering, Salesforce
Experience Platform
$251.9-384.1k
World's leading CRM provider
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World's leading CRM provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$251.9-384.1k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way.
Role
Who you are
- We’re seeking a leader with deep expertise in UI technologies, AI-assisted experience generation, and content management systems—someone who has successfully built and scaled large, high-performance UI platforms
- A related technical degree required
- 10+ years of experience leading software engineering teams with a strong track record in high-scale, UI-intensive product development
- Proven expertise in building and maintaining large-scale UI platforms (e.g., design systems, component libraries, rendering engines, etc.)
- Experience integrating and scaling AI-assisted or ML-powered experiences across web or app platforms
- Background in building or integrating enterprise-grade Content Management Systems (CMS)
- Deep understanding of modern front-end technologies such as React, Web Components, TypeScript, and performance optimization techniques
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with agile methodologies and acting as a Scrum Master
- Hands-on knowledge of software engineering best practices including CI/CD, testing strategies, accessibility, and internationalization
- Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers and lead with empathy and clarity
- Experience working on customer-facing products with fast release cycles and high reliability requirements
What the job involves
- Salesforce is looking for technically strong, energetic, highly collaborative, and passionate leaders to lead our software engineering teams
- You will run and lead teams of exceptional developers and keep quality, innovation, and user-centric design top of mind
- We work in a collaborative environment, and we value open communication and feedback, code reviews, and making learning fun!
- Drive the execution and delivery of front-end focused features and experience platforms by collaborating with cross-functional teams including architects, product owners, AI/ML experts, and engineers
- Lead the design and delivery of scalable, reusable UI platforms and frameworks serving a diverse set of applications and teams
- Make critical architectural and strategic decisions in experience generation, leveraging AI and machine learning techniques to personalize and optimize user journeys
- Foresee potential design and technical challenges and resolve them proactively
- Daily management of stand-ups as the Scrum Master for engineering teams
- Partner with Product and UX teams to align on objectives, priorities, tradeoffs, and risk—especially in user experience design and CMS integration
- Ensure teams have clear priorities, adequate resources, and the technical guidance to succeed
- Empower teams to self-organize and continuously improve delivery velocity and quality
- Provide mentorship, career development, and hands-on technical coaching to engineers
- Foster a strong culture of collaboration, experimentation, and excellence
- Participate in architecture discussions, platform planning, and governance
- Advocate for innovation in UI engineering, CMS design, and intelligent experience generation
- Support hiring efforts by selecting and retaining top-tier engineering talent
- Occasionally contribute to development to stay sharp and understand product intricacies
Our take
Salesforce is a global cloud computing company, best known for its on-demand, comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. The company was launched to mitigate the doubts that business owners felt regarding third party companies holding their data.
By providing essential, customer-oriented CRM software, Salesforce places itself at the heart of digitised businesses. Furthermore, by building out its AI capabilities, the company removes the complexity of AI, enabling any business to deliver smarter, personalised and more predictive customer experiences.
Due to the continued innovation offered by the company, over 150,000 companies, both big and small, are growing their business with Salesforce today. Despite a tumultuous 2023 filled with activist investors, a boardroom shake-up and the unprecedented step-down of Co-CEO Bret Taylor, Salesforce continues to close several acquisition deals and managed to drive up its stock value by 96% from the end of 2022 to 2023.
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Insights
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2001
$46.9m
SERIES D
Nov 1999
$13.2m
SERIES C
Total funding: $64.5m
Company benefits
- With 9 standard holidays and four floating holidays, you get a total 13 paid days off each year
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Marc Benioff
(Chair & CEO)Previously Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation for 13 years.
Parker Harris
(CTO)Previously worked as a Software Engineer for over six years. Harris also co-founded Left Coast Software.
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