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Senior Director, Adoption Programs

$181.7k - $332.6k
Full-time

Salesforce

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Job Category

Customer Success

Job Details

About Salesforce

Salesforce 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.

We are seeking a Senior Director, Programs within the Customer Success organization to drive a critical outcome: ensuring customers seamlessly transition from the point of sale into value-driving Success Plan engagements. You will achieve this by designing and executing a global program strategy to systematically diagnose, unblock, and accelerate accounts stalled during this transition. Success requires deep cross-functional collaboration with Professional Services, Security, Product, and Partner teams to orchestrate initiatives that deliver systemic, long-term business outcomes.

Responsibilities
- Design Global Diagnostic Strategy: Establish the global strategy, business logic, and telemetry thresholds across single and multi-cloud environments to systematically segment, track, and uncover stalled implementations.
- Data-Driven Account Identification: Leverage organization telemetry and sandbox insights to proactively identify accounts that have not started, are stuck, or are missing foundational product features.
- Build Pipeline Visibility & Recovery Funnels: Architect reporting views and structured process funnels to monitor account progress along the recovery path, ensuring full visibility into health metrics and progression.
- Orchestrate Intervention & Playbooks: Design targeted recovery playbooks and deploy a strategic mix of Customer Success (CS) and Professional Services (PS) resources to systematically unblock accounts.
- Drive Upstream Transformation: Look beyond the immediate pipeline of stalled accounts to isolate systemic, upstream structural issues (e.g., handoff gaps, product barriers). Partner with Product, Engineering, and Alliances to redesign processes and prevent future stalls.
- Lead Cross-Functional Governance: Establish the operating models, communication rhythms, and feedback loops across business units to secure resource allocation and prioritize program execution.

Required Skillset & Key Competencies
Enterprise Leadership: 15+ years of demonstrated experience managing large-scale, global cross-functional programs that span multiple enterprise SaaS product lines or clouds.
Ability to think and operate in strategic frameworks
Operational Clarity & Scale: Proven ability to define clear program ownership, execute a "crawl-walk-run" approach to scaling initiatives, and establish enterprise-level KPIs while managing team capacity.
Process Architecture: Exceptional workflow-design capabilities, ensuring program frameworks integrate frictionless into matrixed organizational models.
Executive Gravitas & Influence: A master communicator capable of building "pre-wired" consensus, securing hard commitments from executive stakeholders, and translating complex operational data into compelling business narratives.
Ecosystem Expertise: Direct experience within Professional Services (PS) or managing partner-led implementation services is a significant plus.
Ambiguity & Navigation: Exceptional comfort dealing with ambiguity and structural friction, with the political savvy to align disparate teams under shared organizational goals.
MBA preferred

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: 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 $181,700 - $304,700 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $218,100 - $332,600 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.
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