Senior Director, Product Design - Ecosystem

Salesforce • San Francisco, NY

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About The Position

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Director, Product Design - Ecosystem to lead the design vision for the developer experience across Slack's platform. This is a player-coach role where you will build and grow a small team of designers while remaining hands-on in the design work. You will report to the Vice President, Product Design. The role involves defining how the world builds on Slack, focusing on the agent experience, management of agents, discovery of agents in the marketplace, and the partner experience for companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Cognition, and GitHub. As AI redefines software development and work, you will shape the future of the developer experience on Slack.

Requirements

• 10+ years of product design experience, including work on developer-facing or highly technical products.
• Experience managing and growing design teams.
• Hands-on experience with AI and vibe-coding tools, and a solid understanding of developer workflows.
• A track record of partnering with product and engineering leadership to define and refine product direction through design.

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing marketplace or agent-discovery experiences.
• Experience bringing third-party agentic experiences into a product.
• Experience designing multiplayer or collaborative use cases.
• Deep familiarity with Slack's platform surfaces and how its ecosystem works.

Responsibilities

• Hold and continuously refine the long-range design vision for the platform, in close partnership with product and engineering leadership.
• Drive design across the full developer lifecycle: defining what agents do in Slack, agent creation, install and management, and marketplace discovery.
• Shape how partners building on Slack (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cognition, GitHub, and more) bring their agents into the ecosystem.
• Contribute directly to the design work as a player-coach, setting the craft bar for the team.
• Grow and develop the platform design team, owning staffing and career development for the designers on it.

Benefits

• time off programs
• medical
• dental
• vision
• mental health support
• paid parental leave
• life and disability insurance
• 401(k)
• employee stock purchasing program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed