Role at a glance
- Job function
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Software Engineering & IT Technical Program Management
- Salary
- $150.1K – $247.9K/yr
- Location
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Employment
- Full-time
- Experience
- Senior Level 8+ years of recent experience leading large-scale, complex infrastructure programs with proven impactful business outcomes.
- Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent experience in technical leadership....
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Role Summary
Senior Technical Program Manager role on the Salesforce Trust Platform, leading cross-functional planning and delivery of Hyperforce infrastructure programs spanning networking, security, and scalability across operating zones.
What You'll Do
- Take ownership of technical program planning and delivery for programs in Identity and Access, Data Security, Network Security, and...
- Translate business objectives into execution strategy and lead its execution through collaboration and agile leadership.
- Lead regular review meetings with key stakeholders, manage cross-team dependencies, and identify and address risks and program issues.
- Provide regular program status reporting on key decisions, dependencies, issues, risks, and metrics to all stakeholders.
- Partner with product and engineering organizations using agile methodologies and the product development lifecycle.
- Bring teams together to define business objectives, program structures, and the cross-functional support needed to succeed.
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View full postingQualifications
Bachelor's degree or equivalent technical leadership experience, plus 8+ years leading large-scale infrastructure programs and strong executive communication skills.
Required
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent experience in technical leadership
- 8+ years of recent experience leading large-scale, complex infrastructure programs with proven impactful business outcomes
- Establish and maintain strong credibility and rapport with senior executives, technical experts, and cross-functional team members
- Demonstrate exceptional executive communication and presentation skills
Preferred
- Advanced management degree
- Experience with large-scale infrastructure programs, network security, data security, identity and access management
- Ability to understand a wide array of technical subjects and technologies relevant to the program
- Demonstrated passion for understanding ambiguous, sophisticated problems and driving high-quality, innovative, and robust technical...
- Experience creating detailed reporting and dashboards
- Experience working with large data sets to drive changes in long term trends
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The Experience
At Salesforce Trust and Infrastructure, Technical Program Managers (TPMs) are pivotal in steering large-scale, cross-functional initiatives. As the TPM working on the Salesforce Trust Platform, you’ll spearhead the strategic evolution of Hyperforce everywhere, including networking and connectivity services, security, and scalability, across all operating zones and all customers. This is a high-impact, individual contributor role where you’ll partner with senior leadership to translate vision into reality, driving cross-functional planning and execution. Experience with large-scale infrastructure programs, Network security, Data Security, Identity and access management is highly desirable.
You’ll be the champion for executing and delivering consistent developer, operator and user experience across all substrates while retaining the highest bar of security, privacy, availability, data residency, compliance and scalability that Hyperforce offers. We’re looking for a proven TPM, a passionate infrastructure expert, a proactive problem solver, and a change agent who thrives on tackling complex challenges. Your expertise in enterprise systems, public cloud services, such as networking, compute, and storage will be essential in delivering tangible business value. If you have a proven track record of leading large, complex programs and are eager to shape the future of Salesforce’s infrastructure, we want to hear from you.
What You'll Actually Be Doing
- Take ownership and accountability of technical program planning and delivery for programs in Identity and Access, Data Security, Network Security, Technical Resilience, using demonstrated strong analytical and technical skills. Drive major uplifts in infrastructure across services such as Compute, Storage, Networking, and Identity. Translate business objectives into execution strategy (tactical and strategic), lead and successfully execute the strategy through strong collaboration and agile leadership.
- Develop trusted relationships with key technology and functional stakeholders to drive focus on the strategic program objectives and optimize delivery. This includes supporting and holding resources accountable for their responsibilities within the program. Utilize agile methodologies and product development lifecycle to successfully partner with product and engineering organizations. Collaborate with senior managers and engineers to architect and develop the best technical and operational design and approach, delivering value quickly to customers. Initiate programs and create alignment on program planning. Bring teams together to define the business objectives, program structures, and cross-functional support necessary to succeed.
- Lead regular review meetings with key stakeholders. Provide transparent updates, help drive key decisions, pro-actively remove obstacles, manage dependencies across teams, identify risks and address key program issues. Provide regular visibility to program status (key decisions, dependencies, issues, risks, metrics, etc.) through status reporting to all stakeholders. Ensure data is collected to appropriately inform decision-making for mitigating risks and resolving issues. Drive for clarity to keep teams moving forward, ensure business objectives are met and each program delivers on its commitments.
- Utilize internal tools and an agile mindset to create a collaborative environment that fosters autonomy, transparency, mastery, innovation, and learning; promotes continuous improvement. Be a thought leader within the organization, someone who can help advance our security strategy globally and challenge others to move beyond the current state. Pursue continuous growth through professional development and proactively seeking and adopting constructive feedback.
You're Our Person If...
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent experience in technical leadership. Advanced management degrees preferred.
- 8+ years of recent experience leading large-scale, complex infrastructure programs with proven impactful business outcomes.
- Establish and maintain strong credibility and rapport with senior executives, technical experts, and cross-functional team members.
- Demonstrate exceptional executive communication and presentation skills.
Even Better If...
- Ability to understand a wide array of technical subjects and technologies relevant to the program
- Demonstrated passion for understanding ambiguous, sophisticated problems and driving high-quality, innovative, and robust technical solutions
- Experience with creating detailed reporting and dashboards
- Experience working with large data sets to drive changes in long term trends
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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