Business Operations Director
Salesforce, San Francisco, CA, United States
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Salesforce is seeking a Business Operations & Program Management Director to lead the delivery of strategic availability and reliability initiatives across our Reliability Engineering team. This individual will play a pivotal role in orchestrating large-scale, cross-functional programs, ensuring resilient and highly available solutions for Salesforce products across multiple platforms. Working closely with leadership and engineering stakeholders, you will define and execute program strategies, manage end-to-end project delivery, and drive alignment across teams. This is an individual contributor role, focused on program execution, not people management.
Responsibilities:
- Lead Program Strategy & Execution: Define and drive the vision, strategy, and roadmap for availability and reliability, delivering business-critical insights and solutions.
- Establish Cross-Functional Alignment: Build strong relationships across engineering, AI/ML, product management, incident response, and leadership teams, aligning on goals, resources, and timelines.
- Drive Project Management Excellence: Develop and manage program plans, proactively tracking progress, identifying risks, and ensuring timely resolution.
- Set and Track Critical Metrics: Define and monitor key metrics (e.g., availability, performance) for process and program health, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
- Act as a change agent to establish best practices, standardized frameworks and tooling to facilitate program delivery.
- Champion Continuous Improvement: Implement best practices, frameworks, and tools to streamline program delivery, enhance communication, and promote resilience.
- Influence at All Levels: Communicate program status, challenges, and impact effectively to both technical teams and executive leadership.
What you’ll need to be successful:
- 10+ years of program management experience, with a focus on reliability, availability, or observability in cloud or SaaS environments.
- 5+ years of experience in supporting large-scale SAAS or cloud provider environments.
- Proven ability to manage large-scale, cross-functional initiatives, building strong alignment with leadership and stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of service reliability, availability KPIs, and best practices in cloud infrastructure.
- Experience in building and executing operational models, using continuous improvement frameworks.
- Demonstrated cross-functional communication and relationship-building skills with Executive Leadership, with demonstrated ability to work effectively and collaboratively with diverse team members and external parties.
- Expertise in project management methodologies (Agile, Lean, etc.) and tools for efficient program tracking and delivery.
- Outstanding communication and leadership skills, with demonstrated success in influencing executives and technical teams alike.
- Experience in developing both short- and long-term strategic plans for enhancing customer-facing services.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with data visualization tools (Tableau, Grafana).
- Hands-on experience with reliability engineering practices and an understanding of incident response, metrics, and SLAs.
This role offers the opportunity to shape Salesforce’s approach to reliability engineering and make a tangible impact on product resilience and customer satisfaction.