Sr. Director, Engineering Programs

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Program & Project Management

Job Details

About Salesforce

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We're seeking a highly accomplished and results-driven Senior Director, Engineering Programs to architect and lead enterprise-scale portfolio governance and execution across our Product Engineering organization. In this pivotal role, you'll drive execution strategy, operational excellence, and organizational alignment for complex, cross-functional programs that deliver measurable business impact. You'll be both a hands-on expert - leading our most critical programs - and a strategic leader who builds and guides a high-performing team of technical program managers.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Program Leadership: Architect and drive the full operating framework for a portfolio of complex programs, ensuring alignment with Salesforce's strategic priorities and demonstrating significant business impact.

• Portfolio Management & Execution: Directly lead and manage a portfolio of high-visibility programs from concept through deployment. Define program scope, facilitate critical analyses, develop comprehensive business cases, charters, and fit-for-purpose execution plans.

• Operational Excellence & Process Ownership: Champion and institutionalize best-in-class delivery practices across development teams. Drive continuous improvement by owning and optimizing processes, tools, and communication channels, leveraging metrics, and leading regular, high-impact retrospectives.

• Executive Alignment and Communication: Partner strategically with executive and senior leadership across Engineering, Product, and Business teams to align roadmaps, prioritize initiatives, negotiate technical trade-offs, and facilitate critical decision-making. Present crisp, regular updates on program health, risk assessment, and dependency management to executive steering committees.

• Risk and Dependency Management: Proactively identify, analyze, and mitigate complex cross-program risks and dependencies that span multiple teams and organizations, ensuring clear communication of impact and proposed resolution paths to all stakeholders.

• Performance Tracking: Define, track, and communicate key Program KPIs and Portfolio Objectives and Key Results, providing transparent reporting that measures progress against strategic business outcomes.

• Cross-Organizational Influence: Cultivate deep, positive, and influential relationships with senior business leaders and technical teams across organizational boundaries, effectively prioritizing, unblocking, and removing systemic cross-team impediments at scale.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience leading complex software development programs.

• Experience: 10-12+ years of progressive experience in Technical Program Management within a large-scale, enterprise software environment, demonstrating a proven ability to lead and deliver multi-year, strategic programs across multiple organizational boundaries.

• Technical Acumen: Deep understanding of modern software architecture, cloud platforms (ideally the Salesforce Platform), and the technical complexities inherent in a global, highly available system. Solid background in enterprise software development cycle.

• Strategic Vision: Demonstrated strong technical and business vision, with the ability to translate complex strategic objectives into clear, executable program plans.

• Agile Mastery: Proven track record of successfully implementing, scaling, and optimizing development processes utilizing various agile methodologies (Scrum) at an organizational level.

• Communication & Influence: Exceptional communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, with proven ability to influence technical and non-technical senior leaders (VP/SVP/EVP level) without formal authority.

In office expectations are 36 days/a quarter to support customers and/or collaborate with their teams.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions. The typical base salary range for this position is $191,100 - $320,600 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $228,600 - $348,600 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.