Senior Director, Platform Product, Emerging Technology

Salesforce•San Francisco, NY

About The Position

Salesforce is hiring a Senior Director, Platform Product Management, to build and lead a small product team for the Experience Emerging Technology platform. The platform supports high-leverage opportunities and zero-to-one initiatives across the enterprise. The role will shape scattered technical capabilities into a comprehensive platform by driving product requirements, priorities, and adoption in partnership with Engineering, Development & Delivery (EDD), which owns engineering execution. This is a hands-on builder role requiring technical fluency to work credibly with senior engineers and strategic leadership to align stakeholders without direct authority over engineering teams. The position owns continuous discovery, a unified and sequenced roadmap, clear communication about platform priorities and progress, and the internal adoption narrative and milestones. It will also mentor product managers as the team grows.

Requirements

10+ years of product management experience.
4+ years leading platform, infrastructure, or developer products.
Experience owning technical products where engineers are the primary customers.
Experience in developer productivity or tooling, with a focus on developer enablement.
Hands-on technical depth across several of the following: cloud infrastructure; hosting and compute, including containers and serverless; CI/CD and developer workflow tooling; data and telemetry pipelines or event buses; observability; real-time ML; and the emerging AI stack, including MCP servers, MCP registries, agent tooling, and knowledge graphs.
Proven ability to build prioritization frameworks and drive a unified roadmap across stakeholders and competing agendas.
Experience driving adoption and migrations for internal or developer platforms, rather than relying solely on expressions of interest.
Ability to communicate with executives, including VPs and SVPs, and make complex technical tradeoffs understandable.
Comfort working with ambiguity and influencing teams without authority.

Nice To Haves

Former engineering experience, including writing and shipping production code and being able to read architecture diagrams, pull requests, and design documents.
Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as computer science, or equivalent hands-on experience.
Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure is preferred.

Responsibilities

Build the platform product function and define how the platform determines what to build, for whom, and in what order.
Establish an intake funnel and functions that create clarity and awareness about deliverables and timelines.
Consolidate initiatives across multiple owners into one sequenced platform roadmap and make and defend prioritization decisions.
Work closely with senior engineers across hosting and compute, CI/CD and developer tooling, the AI control plane, data and telemetry, and real-time ML to understand architecture, challenge scope, and unblock tradeoffs.
Maintain a single view of platform development efforts and identify and merge overlapping work early.
Drive adoption by communicating the value of the platform and securing partner-team commitments to adoption milestones.
Continuously interview platform use case owners to ground roadmap decisions in demand.
Translate technical work into clear executive narratives and communicate priorities and progress to engineering teams.
Mentor and grow the platform product team, establishing expectations for technical fluency and product craft.