Vice President of Data Science & Analytics, Salesforce

Slack

$270.4-472.9k

Salary is applicable to California & New York based candidates only, is partially dependent on location and may vary on further locations

Expert level
Chicago
New York
San Francisco Bay Area
Salesforce

World's leading CRM provider

Open for applications

Salesforce

World's leading CRM provider

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseInternal toolsLead generationAnalyticsCloud ComputingSales

Open for applications

$270.4-472.9k

Salary is applicable to California & New York based candidates only, is partially dependent on location and may vary on further locations

Expert level
Chicago
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseInternal toolsLead generationAnalyticsCloud ComputingSales

Company mission

To empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way.

Role

Who you are

  • 15+ years of experience in data science or data engineering leadership, with demonstrated success in applying advanced analytics techniques to solve real-world problems
  • Established track record of building and leading high-performing data teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and knowledge sharing
  • In-depth understanding of modern data governance, security, and compliance best practices, with the ability to balance data accessibility with data integrity for data-driven projects
  • Proven experience designing and implementing data infrastructure and platforms to support large-scale data science and analytics workloads (e.g., data lakes and data warehouses)
  • Proficiency in advanced analytics techniques and machine learning algorithms, including natural language processing, time series analysis, and other relevant methods
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex analytical concepts into clear and actionable insights for diverse audiences (business to technical)
  • Strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities, with a strong focus on innovation and staying ahead of the curve in data and analytics
  • Strong business acumen and a solid understanding of SaaS business processes and industry trends
  • A related technical degree required

What the job involves

  • Slack (a Salesforce company) is looking for a data professional who can lead Slack’s data science teams through its next chapter of growth
  • As the Vice President, Data Science, reporting to the COO, you will own the holistic data strategy for Slack Business Operations, leading a team across business insights, data science, data engineering and strategically partnering with peer data teams in product analytics, experimentation, and analytical tooling
  • This team partners closely with cross-functional stakeholders to provide critical business insights across sales, customer success, product, design, engineering and more
  • Lead Slack’s strategic direction and vision for data science, business analytics, and data engineering functions, building partnerships with functional stakeholders across Sales, Product, Marketing, and Go-To-Market Operations
  • Partner with senior leadership across all of Salesforce to identify Slack’s business challenges and opportunities, and translate them into actionable, integrated, data-driven solutions
  • Champion a data-driven culture by fostering collaboration and common data literacy across data teams and business functions
  • Oversee the recruitment, development, and management of a high-performing global team of data scientists, analysts, and data engineers
  • Develop and implement a robust data governance framework to ensure data quality, security, and compliance
  • Design and build scalable data infrastructure and platforms to support enterprise-wide data needs
  • Drive the development and implementation of advanced analytics models and machine learning algorithms to extract valuable insights from data that drive the business forward
  • Communicate complex data analysis and findings effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Stay abreast of emerging data trends and technologies and champion their adoption within the organization

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

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-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 values

  • Trust - We earn the trust of our customers, employees, and extended family through transparency, security, compliance, privacy, and performance. And we deliver the industry’s most trusted infrastructure
  • Customer Success - So we champion them to achieve extraordinary things. We innovate and expand our business offerings to provide all our stakeholders with new avenues to achieve ever greater success
  • Innovation - Our customers’ input helps us develop products that best serve their business needs. Providing continual technology releases and new initiatives gives our customers a competitive advantage
  • Equality - We believe everyone should be seen, heard, valued, and empowered to succeed. Hearing diverse perspectives fuels innovation, deepens connections between people, and makes us a better company
  • Sustainability – We are committed to bringing the full power of Salesforce to accelerate the world’s journey to net zero

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Marc Benioff

(Chair & CEO)

Previously Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation for 13 years.

Previously worked as a Software Engineer for over six years. Harris also co-founded Left Coast Software.


People progressing

Joined as Recruiting Director - Futureforce University Recruiting, EMEA, and was promoted to Senior Director - EMEA & LATAM Recruiting, Futureforce after 3 years, and then again to Senior Director - Recruiting after 2 years. Now serve as COO - Employee Success EMEA.

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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Salesforce

  • Our goals:
  • 50% of our U.S. employees will be made up of underrepresented groups (Women, Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Multiracial, LGBTQ+ employees, People with Disabilities, and Veterans) by 2023
  • Double the U.S. representation of Black leaders (VP+) and increase our representation of underrepresented minority (Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Multiracial) leaders by 50% by 2023
  • 50% increase our U.S. representation of underrepresented minority (Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Multiracial) employees by 50% by 2023
  • We’ve met our representation goal nearly a full year early – today, 50.7% of our U.S. employees are members of underrepresented groups

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