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Program & Project Management

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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 through 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 Service Cloud will be an essential part of the Service Cloud leadership team responsible for accelerating the innovation and delivery of Service Cloud, which is the industry-leading Customer Service solution. You will ensure alignment and communication across the leadership team and the organization and work with product teams to focus on long-term growth, scalability, and sustainability to continuously improve how we plan, deliver, and measure quality in our products. As a TPM leader, you will also drive strategic initiatives across the Service Cloud portfolio.

About You

• Act as a key member of the Service Cloud leadership team, driving strategic planning and operations across the organization, including company and cloud-level planning and timelines, resource and budget allocation, leadership meetings, all hands, product reviews, etc.
• Be a key liaison between the EMEA, India and HQ-based leadership teams to ensure consistent communication and alignment across geos.
• Lead programs by achieving alignment across teams and functions on program scope, vision, business goals, release planning, and program structure.
• Provide visibility to program status (issues, risks, metrics, etc.) on an ongoing basis through push status reporting (to all stakeholders, team members, and interested parties).
• Anticipate and remove obstacles with a sense of urgency that slow down or prevent project teams from delivering on project goals.
• Preempt escalations by anticipating trouble spots.
• Drive clear decision-making (process, tools, and facilitation) required to balance risk, effort, and timelines.
• Lead and implement process improvements (change management) while managing active projects.
• Facilitate the development of collaborative cross-team dependency solutions.
• Foster an environment of ownership, transparency, and accountability.
• Love to wear multiple hats.
• Highly functional in an energizing environment.
• Comfortable bending between the tactical and strategic.
• Outstanding executive presence and professional communications.
• A service-oriented-minded person who "Thinks Customer."
• Enjoy a hyper-transparent flow of information, conversation, and ideas.
• High Emotional Intelligence (EQ).

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 Steering Committee meetings with key partners for each program to help make key decisions, remove obstacles, and address key program issues. Be the key driver to ensure business goals are met and drive the strategic vision of each program.
• Develop strong partnerships with key functional team members to drive focus on business goals. Be a trusted partner for executive management to ensure program success.
• Partner with cross-functional teammates to drive workgroup alignment meetings to address tactical release issues, dependencies, team status, production issues, metrics review, achievements, etc. (cross-functional - Product Owners, Scrum Leads, UX, CX,).
• Lead "program/feature" dependencies across multiple teams, scrum teams, functions, divisions, and partners.
• Establish and evolve strategies to drive and connect global teams on shared programs.
• Be a catalyst within the organization, someone who can help advance our Product & Technology strategy globally and drive others in the organization to change.
• Create clarity from chaos.

Requirements

• 10+ years of enterprise software/technical program or engineering management experience at an enterprise technology company.
• 5+ years of conducting and leading SaaS product development programs; shown understanding of the SaaS business model and its product development lifecycle.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a history of hands-on, detail orientation.
• Deep experience with the software development lifecycle; ability to adjust and apply this knowledge in a dynamic environment using agile methodologies.
• Outstanding organizational, communication, and relationship-building skills conducive to driving consensus; able to work in a cross-functional, matrix management environment.
• Experience with Portfolio Management.
• Ability to master technical subjects and technologies relevant to the program.
• Strong organizational, project management, analysis, and communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

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For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $174,900 to $253,700.

For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $190,800 to $276,800.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. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.