Senior Director - Product Management

Salesforce•San Francisco, CA

6d•$218,400 - $401,400

About The Position

Salesforce is seeking a strategic and execution-minded Senior Director of Product Management with a strong builder mindset to lead the vision, roadmap, and delivery of their core platform infrastructure. In this role, the individual will lead a high-performing team of product managers responsible for building the runtime platform for HyperForce - Salesforce's AI-First, next generation, multi-substrate foundation. As a pivotal leader in the Engineering & Infrastructure organization, this role will bridge the gap between industry direction, complex platform capabilities, internal engineering teams, and customer-facing experiences. The individual will define how Hyperforce powers both internal Salesforce operations and external customer-facing products, including serving as the foundational platform layer upon which the company’s Enterprise AI initiatives run.

Requirements

10+ Years in Product Management: Proven track record in a senior product leadership role within Infrastructure, Cloud Services, Enterprise Architecture, or Developer Platforms.
People Leadership: Experience directly managing and growing teams of 3–5+ Product Managers.
Platform & Infrastructure Expertise: Deep technical domain knowledge in cloud-native platform migrations, enterprise scale, multi-tenant architectures, and developer ecosystems.
Cross-Functional Influence: Demonstrated success leading large-scale internal alignment and migration efforts across matrixed engineering organizations.
AI Infrastructure Exposure: Familiarity with hosting, scaling, or enabling AI/ML workloads on cloud infrastructure.
Communication: Exceptional ability to translate complex, low-level technical infrastructure concepts into clear strategic visions for executives and internal partners.

Responsibilities

Own and execute the end-to-end product strategy for the core infrastructure platform, aligning platform capabilities with broader organizational and AI initiatives.
Work closely with cross-functional internal engineering, operations, and product teams to streamline onboarding and migration onto Hyperforce.
Drive the HyperForce multi-substrate roadmap, customer and partner stakeholders to deliver on the multi-substrate HyperForce vision.
Ensure the platform architecture reliably supports high-scale, next-gen AI workloads and data services across the enterprise.
Directly manage, hire, and develop a team of 3–5 Product Managers, fostering a culture of ownership, operational excellence, and user-centric platform design.
Act as the primary liaison between infrastructure engineering, internal partner teams, and business executives to ensure seamless cross-team integration.
Establish KPIs, platform adoption metrics, and reliability benchmarks to measure product performance and velocity.