Salesforce Forward Deployed Salesforce Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct deepdive discovery with executive, business, and IT stakeholders to uncover real pain points and quantify business impact, cost savings, revenue uplift, and risk reduction.
• Translate business problems into technical requirements while navigating organizational politics, budgets, and approval chains.
• Navigate competing stakeholder interests and drive alignment toward a unified solution vision.
• Build trust with skeptics, CFOs, CIOs, and compliance by addressing their specific concerns and acknowledging constraints.
• Navigate technical risks early, propose concrete mitigations, establish gating criteria, and escalate appropriately.
• Lead delivery teams, engineers, data engineers, and admins through design, build, test, and launch phases.
• Ensure user adoption by designing embedded experiences, measuring KPIs, iterating on feedback, and building stakeholder confidence.
• Communicate technical strategy to nontechnical audiences using CFO language (cost/revenue), CIO language (risk/governance), and sales leader language (speed/friction).
• Listen deeply to stakeholder feedback and adapt approach without defensiveness.
• Mentor junior engineers and model technical excellence, decision-making discipline, and customer obsession.

Required Qualifications

• 10 years of hands-on Salesforce experience in Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, or Data Cloud.
• Deep expertise in at least two of Sales Cloud architecture, Service Cloud configuration, Marketing Cloud Engagement, Data Cloud, Agentforce-Einstein, Copilot, Commerce Cloud, or integration design, APIs, middleware, ETL patterns.
• Proficiency with SQL and data modeling.
• Comfortable with APIs and API-first architecture.
• Can design pseudocode or explain data pipelines.
• Software engineer background not required but technical fluency is essential.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, databases, identity management, and compliance frameworks.
• Comfort asking smart questions about adjacent technologies.

Other Details

Variable Compensation: This position includes a bonus or variable payout component based on individual and organizational performance. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, performance, and internal equity.

Benefits/Perks: Comprehensive Medical Plan covering Medical, Dental, Vision, Short Term and Long-Term Disability Coverage, 401(k) Plan with company match, Life Insurance, Vacation Time, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays, Paid Paternity and Maternity Leave.

The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum salary target for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and job level and additional factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.