Slack COO, Salesforce
$221.9-426.9k
Salary dependent on location
World's leading CRM provider
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World's leading CRM provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$221.9-426.9k
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
- Senior leader with executive management and communication skills, startup hustle, and alignment to Salesforce core values
- Ability to influence key stakeholders across a large, matrixed organization
- Great manager of managers — empowers, inspires, and develops senior leaders
- Relentless at prioritization and driving stakeholder alignment
- Effective communicator — right level of altitude for the right audience
- Proven track record of managing strategy & operational teams in large, matrixed organizations
- 15+ years of experience across general management, strategy, operations, product commercialization, or GTM; utility player able to wear multiple hats and play high or play low as needed
- Deep familiarity with SaaS business models, AI-driven products, and enterprise GTM motions
- Proven ability to track, prioritize, and drive multiple large initiatives concurrently across cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, Customer Success, Product Marketing, SIs, and more)
- Highly motivated, execution-focused, with a positive and resilient attitude
- Advanced Slack and Salesforce product knowledge strongly preferred
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Chief Operating Officer for the Slack organization whose responsibility spans GTM operations, product strategy and commercialization, AI-driven growth, and business transformation
- The COO will establish and drive multiple work-streams across the company to accelerate Slack's product development, GTM, and customer success efforts
- This individual is a seasoned operator with both entrepreneurial and corporate experience, able to work at startup speed and enterprise scale, and able to advise the Slack CEO and cross-functional leaders across Product, Engineering, Distribution, Marketing, CSG, Services, Partnerships, Finance, BT, and Legal to drive success in these key areas:
- Running the Slack Business:
- Shape the future of Slack GTM strategy that delivers key business priorities, with a focus on AI-powered work and the Agentforce platform
- Drive effective participation across annual business planning activities for Salesforce, including V2MOM, Quarterly Business Reviews, LRP, G4G, and budgeting
- Create the appropriate forums for collaboration and decision-making across Sales, Marketing, and Product to drive business growth
- Operationalize the GTM, including Pipeline Management & Forecasting
- Lead demand generation programs and Slack enablement
- Build a culture of Commercial Excellence founded on accountability, discipline, and rigor
- Proactively monitor the health of the business, partnering with leadership to drive profitable growth
- Manage team budget in partnership with Finance (CTS, Headcount, Vendor, T&E, etc.)
- Be a core partner with the CEO and Employee Success to ensure team health is high; drive survey action items in partnership with key stakeholders
- Functional leadership (dotted line) with BT / ES / Legal, Finance, Customer Success, and Marketing
- Support and build relationships across Alliances & Channels
- Product Commercialization & AI Strategy:
- Lead product commercialization strategy for Slack's AI and Agentforce integrations — developing new use cases, integrating customer feedback, and monetizing new offerings
- Drive PDE & Commercial Strategy including offer development, Pricing & Packaging for AI-first SKUs
- Lead business operations rhythm for Self-Service and PLG (Product-Led Growth) motions
- Ensure proper metrics and priorities to scale Slack's self-service and AI capabilities across the Salesforce ecosystem
- Partner with Product and Engineering on roadmap alignment and investment prioritization
- Business Leadership & Executive Alignment:
- Responsible for driving the effectiveness of the Slack ELT and amplifying the impact of the CEO/GM
- Define strategic customer engagement (Advisory boards, account sponsorship, executive experiences during events)
- Drive CEO/GM Thought Leadership & Slack ELT Media Education
- Drive executive engagement for Strategic Alliance partners
- Ensure effective ELT collaboration — weekly meetings, team events, key decisions
- Prioritize most impactful CEO/GM engagements across customers, employees, press, and partners
- Partner with CEO/GM on select offsite events on key messaging, presentation, and follow-through on key outcomes
- Culture & Organizational Health:
- Lead communications, organization design, and change management in partnership with Employee Success
- Build a high-performance, inclusive culture aligned to Salesforce values (Ohana, Trust, Innovation, Equality)
- Drive leadership development and succession planning across the Slack org
- Be a core partner with Employee Success to ensure team health is high and drive survey action items
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 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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