AI Deployment Portfolio Lead

Salesforce, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Portfolio Leader to directly manage and grow a team of technical AI specialists deploying Agentforce solutions inside complex customer environments. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can drive engineering excellence while operating at the executive level.

This is not a traditional people manager, but a mission‑critical multiplier on the agentic frontier. You will lead a blended delivery team made up of two specialist functions: Forward Deployed

Responsibilities

• Delivery Team Coordination: You own the capacity planning, talent acquisition, and staffing that ensures your cross‑functional squads have the horsepower to deploy Agentforce at enterprise scale.
• AI-Augmented Leadership: Your team ships solutions using a best‑in‑class suite of AI tools (Cursor, Claude, and Salesforce coding products like Vibes). You will foster an inclusive, high‑energy, and psychologically safe engineering culture where builders iterate fast and continuously level up.
• Direct Product Influence: You stand at the center of the product feedback loop. Partner directly with the Product and Engineering organizations on pilot programs and beta rollouts, turning raw field insights from high‑stakes deployments into features on the Agentforce core roadmap.
• Scale Elite Talent: Recruit, mentor, and develop the next wave of Technical and Strategic Builders. Drive technical excellence, structure career growth, and foster an environment where shipping high‑quality, production‑ready systems is the norm.
• Maintain Operational Velocity: Monitor key delivery metrics, coach your teams on optimization, and run hard on complex customer escalations. You ensure your teams move from sketch to deployable in weeks, not months.
• Ultimate Technical Authority: Serve as the final technical escalation point for your portfolio. Maintain deep architectural judgment across the Salesforce platform, advanced LLM techniques, data pipelines, and agentic orchestration.
• Guide Enterprise Implementations: Unblock complex data readiness, tool integration, and multi‑agent orchestration challenges. Step in directly to help your teams assess customer technical readiness, remove deployment barriers, and codify standardized, repeatable delivery methodologies.
• Drive Agentic Adoption: Build and anchor strong executive‑level relationships within your customer portfolio, ensuring flawless Agentforce activation, rollout, and sustained production value.
• Accelerate Portfolio Performance: Operationally run your account portfolio with engineering rigor - monitoring health, delivery velocity, and core consumption metrics to accelerate progress toward customer business outcomes.
• Cross‑Functional Alignment: Partner lock‑step with Services, Account Success, and

Job description

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Portfolio Leader to directly manage and grow a team of technical AI specialists deploying Agentforce solutions inside complex customer environments. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can drive engineering excellence while operating at the executive level.

This is not a traditional people manager, but a mission‑critical multiplier on the agentic frontier. You will lead a blended delivery team made up of two specialist functions: Forward Deployed