Engineering Program Director, Salesforce
$171.2-298.4k
Salary dependent on location
World's leading CRM provider
Posted today
World's leading CRM provider
1001+ employees
Posted today
$171.2-298.4k
Salary dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of progressive experience in Technical Program Management within a large-scale, enterprise software environment, demonstrating a proven ability to lead and deliver multi-year, strategic programs across multiple organizational boundaries
- Deep understanding of modern software architecture, cloud platforms (ideally the Salesforce Platform), and the technical complexities inherent in a global, highly available system. Solid background in enterprise software development cycle
- Demonstrated strong technical and business vision, with the ability to translate complex strategic objectives into clear, executable program plans
- Proven track record of successfully implementing, scaling, and optimizing development processes utilizing various agile methodologies (Scrum) at an organizational level
- Exceptional communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, with proven ability to influence technical and non-technical senior leaders (VP/SVP/EVP level) without formal authority
- A related technical degree is required
What the job involves
- We're seeking a highly accomplished and results-driven Engineering Program Director to architect and lead enterprise-scale portfolio governance and execution across our Product Engineering organization
- You'll drive execution strategy, operational excellence, and organizational alignment for complex, cross-functional programs that deliver measurable business impact. You'll be both a hands-on expert - leading our most critical programs
- You'll work closely with executives and key company partners to drive critical programs and activities across the company
- Strategic Program Leadership: Architect and drive the full operating framework for a portfolio of complex programs, ensuring alignment with Salesforce's strategic priorities and demonstrating significant business impact
- Portfolio Management & Execution: Directly lead and manage a portfolio of high-visibility programs from concept through deployment. Define program scope, facilitate critical analyses, develop comprehensive business cases, charters, and fit-for-purpose execution plans
- Operational Excellence & Process Ownership: Champion and institutionalize best-in-class delivery practices across development teams. Drive continuous improvement by owning and optimizing processes, tools, and communication channels, leveraging metrics, and leading regular, high-impact retrospectives
- Executive Alignment and Communication: Partner strategically with executive and senior leadership across Engineering, Product, and Business teams to align roadmaps, prioritize initiatives, negotiate technical trade-offs, and facilitate critical decision-making. Present crisp, regular updates on program health, risk assessment, and dependency management to executive steering committees
- Risk and Dependency Management: Proactively identify, analyze, and mitigate complex cross-program risks and dependencies that span multiple teams and organizations, ensuring clear communication of impact and proposed resolution paths to all stakeholders
- Performance Tracking: Define, track, and communicate key Program KPIs and Portfolio Objectives and Key Results, providing transparent reporting that measures progress against strategic business outcomes
- Cross-Organizational Influence: Cultivate deep, positive, and influential relationships with senior business leaders and technical teams across organizational boundaries, effectively prioritizing, unblocking, and removing systemic cross-team impediments at scale
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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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
SoMa, 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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