Sr. Director of Product - AI

Salesforce•Chicago, IL

3d•$197,300 - $401,400•Remote

About The Position

This is a strategic product leadership role designed to serve as the connective tissue across a portfolio of AI-powered products and platform capabilities. Rather than owning a single product roadmap, this leader operates as a portfolio-level orchestrator - ensuring that products built across operating units work together as a coherent system. The role spans cross-cutting domains including AI/ML functionality, identity and access management, security architecture, and platform processes, with an additional lens on pricing coherence and acquisition target evaluation.

Requirements

8–12 years of experience in product management, product strategy, or a closely related function
Background at a major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP, Salesforce, ServiceNow, or equivalent) strongly preferred — deep familiarity with how platform ecosystems are architected and governed
Demonstrated experience working across product lines or in a horizontal/platform PM capacity
Fluency in identity, security, and AI/ML product domains — engineering depth not required, but technical literacy is essential
Proven ability to influence without authority — succeeds by building trust and making alignment obvious, not by controlling resources
Strong written and verbal communication; comfortable operating in executive settings

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting or leading M&A; due diligence from the product side is a strong plus

Responsibilities

Identify misalignments across product teams in AI functionality, identity, security, data architecture, and platform APIs
Facilitate cross-functional product reviews and governance processes to surface and resolve conflicts before they reach customers
Maintain a living map of portfolio capabilities, overlaps, gaps, and interdependencies
Apply basic program management rigor to keep alignment workstreams and stakeholder commitments on track
Serve as a trusted advisor to product GMs and business unit leaders on portfolio-level implications of local roadmap decisions
Represent product portfolio coherence in executive and board-level planning conversations
Partner with pricing, finance, and product leadership to flag inconsistencies or risks in cross-portfolio packaging and pricing
Advocate for portfolio-level pricing logic without owning pricing decisions directly
Conduct structured capability gap assessments against market and competitive benchmarks
Identify and prioritize acquisition or partnership targets that could address strategic gaps
Support corporate development with product-side due diligence on inbound and outbound targets