Senior Director - Portfolio Product Strategy & AI Alignment

Salesforce•San Francisco, CA

10d

About The Position

This is a high-visibility, strategic product leadership role designed to serve as the connective tissue across Salesforce’s portfolio of AI-powered products and platform capabilities. This leader will operate as a portfolio-level orchestrator—ensuring that AI innovations and core platform services built across various operating units weave together into a coherent, world-class enterprise system. As a key leader in a brand-new team, you will help navigate a highly ambiguous, fast-paced environment. We are looking for someone who brings a fresh perspective, combining the agility and disruptive mindset of a startup with the sophisticated execution of a major cloud corporate environment. The role spans critical cross-cutting domains including AI/ML functionality, identity and access management, security architecture, and platform processes, with an additional strategic lens on pricing coherence and M&A evaluation.

Requirements

10–15 years of total professional experience in product management, product strategy, or a closely related horizontal leadership function.
A proven track record that blends startup agility with large enterprise scale—you know how to move fast, but you also know how to successfully navigate a major cloud corporate environment.
Thrived in a fast-growing, rapidly evolving technology company where change is the only constant.
Deep familiarity with how massive platform ecosystems (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, Salesforce, ServiceNow) are architected, governed, and monetized.
Strong technical fluency in AI/ML workflows, identity, and security product domains. (Deep engineering depth is not required, but conceptual literacy is essential).
Exceptional ability to build trust, bridge silos, and win hearts and minds across matrixed organizations. You succeed by making alignment obvious, not by controlling resources.
Experience helping to build "0-to-1" teams, processes, or frameworks where the playbook hasn't been written yet.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting or leading M&A due diligence and post-merger product integration from the product side.
Advanced degree (MBA or Technical Master’s) or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

Help the SVP translate high-level strategy into execution-ready alignment across multiple product lines, turning ambiguity into order.
Actively look across product teams to identify gaps and friction points in AI functionality, identity, security, data architecture, and platform APIs.
Lead product reviews and governance processes to surface and resolve ecosystem conflicts before they impact customers.
Build and maintain a living map of portfolio capabilities, overlaps, gaps, and interdependencies to ensure Salesforce moves as a unified AI platform.
Serve as a trusted advisor to product GMs and business unit product leaders on the portfolio-level implications of local roadmap decisions.
Apply program management rigor to keep matrixed alignment workstreams and stakeholder commitments on track.
Partner with leadership to prepare portfolio coherence and AI strategy materials for executive and board-level planning conversations.
Partner closely with pricing, finance, and product leadership to identify inconsistencies or risks in cross-portfolio packaging and AI monetization strategies.
Champion intuitive, portfolio-level pricing logic without needing to own the direct pricing execution.
Conduct structured capability gap assessments against market shifts and competitive AI benchmarks.
Identify and prioritize acquisition or partnership targets that can accelerate our horizontal AI and platform capabilities.
Lead the product-side due diligence on inbound and outbound M&A targets, ensuring seamless integration potential.