Senior Manager of Solution Engineering, Salesforce
CA$180-230k
World's leading CRM provider
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World's leading CRM provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$180-230k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way.
Role
Who you are
- 5-10+ years of experience in a leadership role within strategy, management consulting, or sales organizations, with expertise in pre-sales and project delivery
- Founder Mentality: You treat the business as your own and lead with empathy, modeling calm and focus even during complex projects
- Proven ability to evaluate and reshape existing teams while mentoring individuals to achieve their full potential
- Strong technical background with 5+ years in Solution Engineering, Consulting, or similar roles
- Deep understanding of the "build"—from data strategy and IT architecture to AI workflows—with the ability to coach your team on technical details
- Deep knowledge of design thinking and human-centered approaches to innovation; you move beyond features to focus on business transformation and ROI
- Hands-on leadership style with a willingness to be "in the trenches" alongside your team on customer engagements
- Strong analytical and negotiation skills, particularly when engaging at the C-level
- Data fluency with adoption metrics, consumption ACV, and ROI analysis
What the job involves
- This role focuses specifically on our SMB (Small and Medium Business) segment—the engine of innovation and the fastest-growing part of the Salesforce ecosystem
- In this role, you will lead a team of Solution Engineers who act as strategic partners to growing businesses, helping them navigate digital transformation and connect with their customers in entirely new ways
- The SMB SE organization is built on a "Founder Mentality." We hire leaders who are comfortable navigating shifting priorities with grace and who view complex business challenges as opportunities to be creative
- Whether your team is focused on the Core Salesforce Platform or specialized "Co-Prime" solutions like Agentforce, Data Cloud, and Marketing Cloud, your mission is to turn cutting-edge technology into measurable growth for our customers
- In this frontline leadership role, you will work alongside your team and directly with customers to deliver impactful outcomes
- Lead Transformation Efforts: Guide SMB customers through their digital journeys, offering strategic counsel on AI adoption and achieving long-term success
- Inspire "Collective Genius": Build and nurture a diverse team of Solution Engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence where the team is obsessed with quality and continuous learning
- Scale Go-to-Market Impact: Partner with Sales leadership to develop bespoke plays and reusable assets, codifying wins into playbooks that drive Salesforce’s transformation into the #1 AI Platform
- Shape Solutions: Ensure your team designs and demonstrates impactful solutions that resonate with SMB needs, leading "CIO-style" executive conversations and high-stakes Proof-of-Concept delivery
- Champion Product Innovation: Serve as the "Voice of the Field" to Product and R&D, distinguishing unique edge cases from systemic needs to influence the global product roadmap
- Partner for Success: Collaborate with Sales leadership to communicate Salesforce’s transformational value and execute growth plans aligned with our strategic vision
- Grow Consumption & ACV: Lead the team in activating Data Cloud and Agentforce in key accounts, overseeing POC delivery and activation programs that drive measurable business impact
- Cultivate Technical Mastery: Maintain excellence standards where every team member continuously develops their knowledge in AI, architecture, and business process integration
- Enable the Ecosystem: Partner with SI Partners on implementation approaches while leading internal enablement for AEs and SEs across the SMB organization
- Represent Salesforce: Support customer engagements by facilitating discussions at both the executive level and deep technical conversations with Heads of IT
- Manage Product Feedback Loop: Collect 'Voice of Customer' insights systematically to ensure our roadmap reflects the reality of the SMB field
- You will set a culture that makes your SEs excited to come to work—supported, challenged, and building the future
- You'll serve as a trusted advisor to your team, acting as a sounding board for challenges and helping them navigate shifting product roadmaps
- Most importantly, you will redefine what is possible for SMB customers, turning the "superintelligent enterprise" from a concept into a reality for the businesses that drive our economy
Application process
- End Date: February 20, 2026
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.
Steph
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 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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