Portfolio Leader (Manager/Director Levels)
Salesforce · McLean, VA · 2 wk ago
HybridFinance$155k–$299k/yrFull-time
About the role
Production leadership required. Builder mindset non-negotiable. Salesforce is hiring a Portfolio Leader to directly manage and grow a team of technical AI specialists deploying Agentforce solutions inside complex customer environments. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can drive engineering excellence while operating at the executive level.
Responsibilities
- Own the capacity planning, talent acquisition, and staffing that ensures your cross-functional squads have the horsepower to deploy Agentforce at enterprise scale.
- Foster an inclusive, high-energy, and psychologically safe engineering culture where builders iterate fast and continuously level up.
- Partner directly with the Product and Engineering organizations on pilot programs and beta rollouts, turning raw field insights from high-stakes deployments into features on the Agentforce core roadmap.
- Scale the talent that's shipping production AI today.
- Set the engineering standards, unblock complex customer deployments, and scale the talent that's shipping production AI today.
- Drive technical excellence, structure career growth, and foster an environment where shipping high-quality, production-ready systems is the norm.
- Maintain operational velocity by monitoring key delivery metrics, coaching your teams on optimization, and running hard on complex customer escalations.
- Unblock complex data readiness, tool integration, and multi-agent orchestration challenges.
- Step in directly to help your teams assess customer technical readiness, remove deployment barriers, and codify standardized, repeatable delivery methodologies.
- Build and anchor strong executive-level relationships within your customer portfolio, ensuring flawless Agentforce activation, rollout, and sustained production value.
- Operate your account portfolio with engineering rigor, monitoring health, delivery velocity, and core consumption metrics to accelerate progress toward customer business outcomes.
- Partner lock-step with Services, Account Success, and Product teams to help enterprises activate and consume Agentforce quickly, moving customers from pilot to production at hyper-speed.
Requirements
- Proven leadership: 4+ years of direct people management or high-impact technical leadership steering cross-functional engineering or technical teams.
- Advanced technical depth: Deep architectural understanding of AI, LLMs, and the Salesforce ecosystem. Hands-on experience with enterprise software implementation, data modeling, API integration, and AI deployments.
- Hands-on experience building multi-agent systems, prompt engineering pipelines, or deterministic AI guardrails.
- Familiarity with cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery) and enterprise data pipelines.
- Relevant Salesforce certifications (Advanced Admin, Service Cloud, Data Cloud, Sales Cloud, or Agentforce Specialist).
Qualifications
- Strong background navigating high-touch customer strategies at a Global level, paired with exceptional executive-level communication and influence skills.
- Exceptional problem-solving instincts, extreme resourcefulness, and a "get-things-done" demeanor. Thrive at the technical helm where code is being actively shipped, not just talked about.
Skills
- Deep architectural understanding of AI, LLMs, and the Salesforce ecosystem.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise software implementation, data modeling, API integration, and AI deployments.
- Experience architecting or deploying Salesforce Data Cloud and the Agentforce platform.
- Exceptional problem-solving instincts, resourcefulness, and a "get-things-done" demeanor.
- Strong background navigating high-touch customer strategies at a Global level, paired with exceptional executive-level communication and influence skills.
Benefits
- Time off programs
- Medical, dental, vision, mental health support
- Paid parental leave
- Life and disability insurance
- 401(k)
- Employee stock purchasing program
Pay
The typical base salary range for this position is $155,190 - $299,390 annually. Specific ranges apply to specific work locations.
Schedule
Not specified.