Director of Technical Program Management, Salesforce

• Overall professional experience of 10 to 20 years with at least 10 years of recent professional work experience leading large enterprise product programs
• 6+ years of cross-functional team management experience preferably in a SaaS company with good knowledge of its product development lifecycle
• Experience working in global teams across geographies and time zones
• Strong executive communication and presentation skills are a must
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills with a history of hands-on, detail orientation
• Deep experience with the software development lifecycle; ability to adjust and apply this knowledge in a dynamic environment using agile methodologies
• Ability to establish credibility and rapport with senior executives and technical and non-technical team members alike
• Outstanding organizational, communication, and relationship building skills conducive to driving consensus; able to work well in a cross-functional, matrix management environment
• Ability to get into the details of technical subjects relevant to the program
• Ability to work well as a member of a highly integrated team composed of both technical and non-technical members
• Ability to successfully partner with all functions across the entire company and across multiple time zones, and strong time management, analysis, and planning skills
• A related technical degree required
• A sense of humor, and grace under pressure

Desirable

• The Technical Program Management team works across our Cloud Business Units driving programs that deliver innovative, enterprise cloud solutions for our customers
• We are the Grease, Glue, Coach & Cop that create delighted users, thriving teams and innovation everywhere!
• This TPM for Industries Cloud will own the planning and execution engine of one or more clouds of Industries. This role would be to lead the TPM activities for Financial Services Cloud (which is the largest Industry Cloud for Salesforce)
• This would require extensive collaboration with leadership as well as scrum teams across US and India
• This person will partner with the product and engineering leaders to drive programs and releases
• In addition, this person will partner with TPM leaders in operating rhythm improvements, process improvements and all execution aspects of the Cloud
• The TPM should have the ability to communicate with Executive Leadership team and across all stakeholders
• They will act with the highest professionalism, exercise independent judgment, own risk-management and decision-making, in addition to weighing the interests of multiple stakeholders
• This is an individual contributor role but can involve people management responsibilities in the future
• Own and drive the cloud operating model by achieving alignment on program scope, release planning, as well as aligning on vision, business goals, creating program structure, and securing cross-functional support
• Drive program core team meetings with key stakeholders for each program to help make key decisions, remove obstacles, and address key program issues. Be the key driver to ensure business goals are met and drive the strategic vision of each program
• Develop strong partnerships with key functional stakeholders to drive focus on business goals. Be a trusted partner and adviser for executive management to ensure program success
• Partner with cross-functional teammates to drive workgroup alignment meetings to address tactical release issues, dependencies, team status, production issues, metrics review, milestones, etc. (cross functional - Product Owners, Scrum Masters, DevOps, Release Eng, Capacity, Functional Managers, Release Management)
• Provide visibility to program status (issues, risks, metrics, etc.) on an ongoing basis through push status reporting to all stakeholders, team members, and interested parties
• Manage "program/feature" dependencies across multiple teams, scrum teams, functions, divisions, and stakeholders
• Anticipate and remove obstacles with a sense of urgency that slow down or prevent project teams from delivering on project goals
• Provide weekly program reviews to the executive team and shepherd release demos and reviews (deep dive into current state of project goals, risks, escalations)
• Create a collaborative environment that fosters creativity, innovation, and learning. Be willing to have a beginner's mind
• Be a catalyst within the organisation, someone who can help advance our Product & Technology strategy globally and drive others in the organisation to change