Director of Product Management, Design Systems

Salesforce•San Francisco, CA

4d•$197,300 - $334,700

About The Position

As Salesforce leads the industry into the agentic enterprise era, the Lightning Design System must evolve beyond a component library into an intelligent platform that supports AI-assisted UI generation, conversational experiences, and human-agent co-creation at enterprise scale. As Director of Product Management for design systems tooling and AI, you will define and own this transformation. Your mandate has two parts. First, you will build the AI-ready design system layer: the component metadata schemas, semantic ontologies, and structural specifications that enable LLMs and agents to safely compose and render Salesforce UI at runtime. Second, you will own the creator tooling platform: the suite of designer and developer-facing products that supercharge how builders work with the design system today and in the agentic future. This is a strategic, cross-functional leadership role. You will operate at the intersection of design systems, AI platform, and enterprise UX, setting a multi-year vision and executing with a high-performing team.

Requirements

10+ years of product management experience, including meaningful time on design systems, developer platforms, creator tooling, or enterprise frontend infrastructure.
Proven ability to define and execute multi-year strategic roadmaps in complex, matrixed organizations, and to align diverse stakeholders without direct authority.
Proven experience shipping developer tools, infrastructure products, or AI-powered technical systems
Strong technical depth working knowledge of AI/ML concepts, LLM capabilities and constraints, and agentic workflows.
Deep understanding of design system principles: CSS architecture, design tokens, component governance, and accessibility standards.
Exceptional communication and storytelling skills. Able to move between detailed technical discussions and executive narrative with ease.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on familiarity with SLDS, Lightning Web Components, or another enterprise-scale design system (e.g., Carbon, Fluent, Material, Spectrum).
Experience building in multi-product environments.
Experience designing metadata schemas, ontologies, or semantic data models for AI/ML consumption.
Background in creator tooling: design-to-code tools or developer IDE integrations.

Responsibilities

Define the product strategy and multi-year roadmap for embedding AI capabilities within design systems, establishing the architectural direction for how components, metadata, and semantic ontologies enable generative and conversational enterprise UIs.
Ensure Design Systems stays at the forefront of AI innovation by defining its AI infrastructure strategy and ship zero-to-one platform capabilities.
Lead complex technical decision-making across code generation, agentic workflows, and evaluation strategies.
Define the guardrails, governance model, and trust criteria that ensure AI-driven UI composition meets Salesforce's accessibility, security, and brand standards.
Own the roadmap for the full suite of designer and developer-facing tooling: UI code validators, linters, Figma plugins, etc.
Define requirements for AI-powered creator productivity features that meaningfully accelerate designer and developer velocity.
Serve as a senior strategic advisor and cross-functional liaison for design systems, driving alignment between the central UX org and AI platform groups.
Build high-trust relationships with engineering leads, design leadership, and executive stakeholders; synthesize complex technical and design concepts into compelling narratives for executive audiences.
Enable customers and ecosystem partners to build AI-ready applications on the Salesforce platform