Critical Incident Communications, Manager

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.Job CategoryProgram & Project ManagementJob DetailsAbout SalesforceSalesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.Role Description:The Salesforce Critical Customer Response (CCR) team seeks a Manager with excellent communication, organizational, and creative problem-solving skills to contribute to our incident management program.This role is primarily focused on effectively communicating with Salesforce customers, customer-facing organizations, and executives during critical technical incidents, ensuring that the information shared is timely, accurate, and meaningful. You will serve as a primary member of the CCR team, collaborating on a variety of communications outputs for unplanned service disruptions, performance degradations, security incidents, and other urgent customer-impacting events as needed. The role requires critical thinking and handling ambiguity in fast-paced, ever-changing incident response situations.This responsibility includes collaborating and partnering with the entire Salesforce organization to drive action and foster growth. As a member of the Global Critical Incident Center, the CCR team member is both technically competent and business-oriented.As the Critical Incident Center is a 24/7 operation, the CCR Manager may occasionally be required to provide additional coverage a few times a year under special circumstances.This role is for communicators with a passion for customer advocacy and helping customers achieve success and business growth while maintaining Salesforce’s key values of trust and transparency.Team Vision:Trust is built through clear, concise, and timely communication. Our customers and internal stakeholders rely on the information they need to make decisions and respond to change, and we provide it. We are a technology and business communications program that builds and maintains high-trusted relationships in times of expected change and rebuilds that trust in times of challenges.Our efforts, impact, and achievements in these spaces are how we build and deliver the “voice of Salesforce” across the Salesforce product catalogue and achieve visibility.We build and cultivate a team-first approach that focuses on equality and trust within our group, where every individual has a voice and contributions are recognized. We help our team grow through feedback and focus on creating a high-performance culture.Responsibilities:Take complex technical issues and concepts during critical incidents and translate them into “business-speak” quickly and efficiently.Consolidate information from different sources (engineering and support) and write appropriate updates for different audiences, including customers (external Trust site), executives (internal summaries), and customer-facing (internal with greater detail,) ensuring stakeholders are kept informed during incidents and always have the most up-to-date information.Develop trusted partnerships and collaborate throughout the Salesforce enterprise to build good working relationships across all functions and alignment across the business.Help build strategies and action plans that enable customers for successDevelop close partnerships and collaborate across the enterprise to build good working relationships across all functions and alignment across the businessEnsure Incident Response readiness through training sessions, periodic incident response simulations, tests, and drillsBe part of an occasional on-call rotation for crisis communications to develop customer-facing materials to address unplanned incidents and events that impact customers’ ability to use the Salesforce serviceMinimum Requirements:5+ years of experience in areas of incident management, crisis communications, or technical writingExceptional writing, editing, and verbal communication skillsExcellent analytical and problem-solving skillsUnderstanding and experience in cloud infrastructure and platforms, such as AWS and GCPAbility to learn and deeply understand technical information and concepts, especially as it relates to database architecture, security, networks, and customer relationship management principlesComfortable working in a fast-paced environment, in sometimes high-pressure or stressful situations, while successfully handling multiple prioritiesAbility to synthesize technical and non-technical details from different teams and determine which information is most relevant for different audiencesExperience working with customers, executives, and customer-facing teams, with the ability to lead without direct authorityExcruciating attention to detail, a commitment to quality, and dogged perseverance to meet deadlinesCollaborative team player who doesn't just say ‘no, we can't do this’, but approaches challenges in a way to meets the needs of othersAccommodation of an on-call schedule for technology crisis communications, where some weekend and holiday on-call work can be requiredPreferred Requirements:Experience with Salesforce platforms. Trailhead Ranger status and Salesforce certifications are a plusPrior experience in a 24/7/365 operations environment is a benefitExperience creating customer-facing communicationsProject/program and change management skillUnleash Your PotentialWhen 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.AccommodationsIf you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form.Please note that Salesforce uses artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help our recruiters assess and evaluate candidates’ resumes and qualifications throughout the recruiting process. Humans will always make any candidate selection and hiring decisions. Please see our Candidate Privacy Statement for more information about how we use your personal data and your rights, including with regard to use of AI tools and opt out options.Posting StatementSalesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.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: 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 $117,400 - $177,600 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.SummaryLocation: Washington - Bellevue; Washington - SeattleType: Full time