Senior Director - Portfolio Product Strategy & AI Alignment

Salesforce•Seattle, WA

2d•$197,300 - $401,400•Remote

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.
Proven track record that blends startup agility with large enterprise scale.
Proven experience driving product alignment and strategy across multiple teams and products within an enterprise organization.
Experience thriving in a fast-growing, rapidly evolving technology company.
Deep familiarity with how massive platform ecosystems are architected, governed, and monetized.
Strong technical fluency in AI/ML workflows, identity, and security product domains.
Exceptional ability to build trust, bridge silos, and win hearts and minds across matrixed organizations.
Experience helping to build "0-to-1" teams, processes, or frameworks.

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

Drive product alignment and strategy across multiple teams and products within an enterprise organization.
Translate high-level strategy into execution-ready alignment across multiple product lines.
Identify gaps and friction points in AI functionality, identity, security, data architecture, and platform APIs across product teams.
Lead product reviews and governance processes to resolve ecosystem conflicts.
Build and maintain a map of portfolio capabilities, overlaps, gaps, and interdependencies.
Serve as a trusted advisor to product GMs and business unit product leaders on portfolio-level implications of 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.
Conduct capability gap assessments against market shifts and competitive AI benchmarks.
Identify and prioritize acquisition or partnership targets.
Lead the product-side due diligence on M&A targets.