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Director, Technical Program Management: Platform Engineering

Salesforce, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199


Job Category:

Program & Project Management

About Salesforce:

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world.

About the Role:

Technical Program Managers (TPMs) play a meaningful role at Salesforce in leading large-scale, cross-functional initiatives within our Technology & Products organizations. TPMs are responsible for programs from beginning to end, ensuring a better workflow and more effective communication. They work closely with executives and key company partners to drive critical programs and activities across the company.

The Director of Technical Program Management for Platform Cloud will be driving and owning technical program management across Platform engineering functions, and their collaborations/partnerships with other organizations within Salesforce. This person will partner with our leadership team to drive strategy, in addition to helping to plan, organize, and work with teams to help execute the vision for our key initiatives.

Your Impact:

Lead programs by aligning across program scope, and release planning, as well as aligning one or more teams on vision, and business goals, crafting program structure, and securing cross-functional alignment.

Drive teams through the Software engineering experience using Agile and analytical and technical skills.

Drive Steering Committee meetings with key partners for each program to help make key decisions, remove obstacles, and address key program issues.

Develop strong partnerships with key functional team members to drive focus on business goals.

Partner with cross-functional teammates to drive workgroup alignment meetings to address tactical release issues, dependencies, team status, production issues, metrics review, achievements, etc.

Lead "program/feature" dependencies across multiple teams, scrum teams, functions, divisions, and partners.

Anticipate and remove obstacles with a sense of urgency that slow down or prevent project teams from delivering on project goals.

Provide monthly program reviews and updates at sprint reviews.

Create a collaborative environment that fosters creativity, innovation, and learning.

Be a catalyst within the organization, someone who can help advance our Product & Technology strategy globally.

Requirements:

10+ years experience managing technical, complex initiatives & projects from initiation to completion for a SaaS/PaaS based Product Development organization.

Ability to successfully partner with all functions across the entire company.

Experience with product development lifecycle, and software development lifecycle, practicing principles of Lean and Agile.

Proven ability to work effectively and prioritize and organize your work and the work of others.

Outstanding organizational, communication, and relationship-building skills.

Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.

Ability to execute and manage performance and expectations within a cross-functional, matrix management environment.

Experience overcoming the difficulties of managing projects with remote and global team members.

Compensation:

For Colorado-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $166,900 to $242,100.For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $183,600 to $266,300.For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $200,300 to $290,500.Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, benefits.

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