Senior Director - Portfolio Product Strategy & AI Alignment

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Overview of the Role: This is a high-visibility, strategic product leadership role designed to serve as the connective tissue across Salesforce’s portfolio of AI-powered products and platform capabilities. This leader will operate as a portfolio-level orchestrator—ensuring that AI innovations and core platform services built across various operating units weave together into a coherent, world-class enterprise system. As a key leader in a brand-new team, you will help navigate a highly ambiguous, fast-paced environment. We are looking for someone who brings a fresh perspective, combining the agility and disruptive mindset of a startup with the sophisticated execution of a major cloud corporate environment. The role spans critical cross-cutting domains including AI/ML functionality, identity and access management, security architecture, and platform processes, with an additional strategic lens on pricing coherence and M&A evaluation. Responsibilities Strategic Portfolio & AI Alignment: This position is unique as it is not tied to one product. Proven experience driving product alignment and strategy across multiple teams and products within an enterprise organization, rather than managing a single product line. Execute Amid Ambiguity: Help the SVP translate high-level strategy into execution-ready alignment across multiple product lines, turning ambiguity into order. Identify Product Misalignments: Actively look across product teams to identify gaps and friction points in AI functionality, identity, security, data architecture, and platform APIs. Facilitate Cross-Functional Governance: Lead product reviews and governance processes to surface and resolve ecosystem conflicts before they impact customers. Map the Ecosystem: Build and maintain a living map of portfolio capabilities, overlaps, gaps, and interdependencies to ensure Salesforce moves as a unified AI platform. Cross-Functional Coordination & Influence: Advise Product Teams: Serve as a trusted advisor to product GMs and business unit product leaders on the portfolio-level implications of local roadmap decisions. Orchestrate Complex Workstreams: Apply program management rigor to keep matrixed alignment workstreams and stakeholder commitments on track. Executive Preparation: Partner with leadership to prepare portfolio coherence and AI strategy materials for executive and board-level planning conversations. M&A Due Diligence & Gap Analysis: Assess Market Gaps: Conduct structured capability gap assessments against market shifts and competitive AI benchmarks. Target Identification: Identify and prioritize acquisition or partnership targets that can accelerate our horizontal AI and platform capabilities. Corporate Development Support: Lead the product-side due diligence on inbound and outbound M&A targets, ensuring seamless integration potential. Required Qualifications: Experience: 10–15 years of total professional experience in product management, product strategy, or a closely related horizontal leadership function. Diverse Background: A proven track record that blends startup agility with large enterprise scale—you know how to move fast, but you also know how to successfully navigate a major cloud corporate environment. Proven experience driving product alignment and strategy across multiple teams and products within an enterprise organization, rather than managing a single product line. Fast-Paced Tech Fluency: Thrived in a fast-growing, rapidly evolving technology company where change is the only constant. Platform Architecture Depth: Deep familiarity with how massive platform ecosystems (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, Salesforce, ServiceNow) are architected, governed, and monetized. Domain Literacy: Strong technical fluency in AI/ML workflows, identity, and security product domains. (Deep engineering depth is not required, but conceptual literacy is essential). Influence Without Authority: Exceptional ability to build trust, bridge silos, and win hearts and minds across matrixed organizations. You succeed by making alignment obvious, not by controlling resources. Comfort with Ambiguity: Experience helping to build "0-to-1" teams, processes, or frameworks where the playbook hasn't been written yet. Preferred Qualifications: Experience supporting or leading M&A due diligence and post-merger product integration from the product side. Advanced degree (MBA or Technical Master’s) or equivalent practical experience. LI-Y* 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. Accommodations If 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 Statement Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. 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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 $197,300 - $365,200 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $237,700 - $401,400 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable. We're Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI + Data + CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. 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