Associate Director Data Science B4 III - USA

The Fountain Group; East Hanover (NJ); Hybrid; USD 103,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

The Fountain Group in East Hanover, NJ seeks an Associate Director Data Science to lead AI-enabled product initiatives and Salesforce Agentforce/ Data Cloud programs. The role requires enterprise CRM and data platform expertise, plus hands-on experience with Agentforce implementations.

The position is hybrid (onsite 3 days, remote 2 days) with immediate start and a 1-year duration. You will shape roadmaps, governance, and cross-functional collaboration across data, security, and legal teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Product Management, AI Product Management, CRM platforms, automation, data platforms, or enterprise SaaS.
• Hands-on Salesforce Agentforce experience.
• Hands-on Salesforce Data Cloud experience.
• AI-enabled product delivery and enterprise AI agent workflows.
• Data grounding, contextual AI, access controls, agent evaluation, human oversight, and responsible AI governance.
• Agile product roadmap and backlog management.
• Salesforce customer data and CRM platforms.
• AI agent guardrails, evaluation criteria, and release governance.
• Experience managing technical dependencies across Data Cloud, architecture, engineering, security, privacy, legal, risk, and AI governance.

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise Salesforce Agentforce product roadmap, capability strategy, and agile backlog.
• Manage intake, qualification, prioritization, epics, features, user stories, evaluation criteria, guardrails, and release plans for AI agent capabilities.
• Define reusable Agentforce patterns leveraging Salesforce Data Cloud as a governed customer data and context layer.
• Coordinate Agentforce dependencies across Data Cloud, architecture, engineering, security, privacy, legal, risk, and AI governance.
• Establish requirements for agent grounding, context, access controls, human oversight, evaluation, reliability, traceability, and responsible AI.
• Partner with AI governance and Center of Excellence teams to design, validate, release, monitor, and operate Agentforce capabilities.
• Track business value, adoption, agent quality, governance compliance, risk, roadmap health, and platform reuse.

Skills

Product Management

AI Product Management

CRM platforms

Agile product management

Data grounding

Contextual AI

Agent governance

Salesforce CRM

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Data, Technology, Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Salesforce Agentforce

Salesforce Data Cloud

Job description

The Fountain Group iscurrently seeking a Associate Director Data Science for a prominent client of ours.

This position is located at East Hanover, NJ.

Details for the position are as follows:

Type:Hybrid (3 Days Onsite / 2 Days Remote)

Location: One Health Plaza, East Hanover, NJ 07936

Pay:$80/hr on W2

Duration:1 year

Target Start Date:Immediate

LinkedIn ID required

Job Description

• Own the enterprise Salesforce Agentforce product roadmap, capability strategy, and agile backlog.
• Manage intake, qualification, prioritization, epics, features, user stories, evaluation criteria, guardrails, and release plans for AI agent capabilities.
• Define reusable Agentforce patterns leveraging Salesforce Data Cloud as a governed customer data and context layer.
• Coordinate Agentforce dependencies across Data Cloud, architecture, engineering, security, privacy, legal, risk, and AI governance.
• Establish requirements for agent grounding, context, access controls, human oversight, evaluation, reliability, traceability, and responsible AI.
• Partner with AI governance and Center of Excellence teams to design, validate, release, monitor, and operate Agentforce capabilities.
• Track business value, adoption, agent quality, governance compliance, risk, roadmap health, and platform reuse.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Data, Technology, Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field required.
• Advanced degree preferred.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of experience in Product Management, AI Product Management, CRM platforms, automation, data platforms, or enterprise SaaS.
• Hands-on Salesforce Agentforce experience.
• Hands-on Salesforce Data Cloud experience.
• AI-enabled product delivery and enterprise AI agent workflows.
• Data grounding, contextual AI, access controls, agent evaluation, human oversight, and responsible AI governance.
• Agile product roadmap and backlog management.
• Salesforce customer data and CRM platforms.
• AI agent guardrails, evaluation criteria, and release governance.
• Experience managing technical dependencies across Data Cloud, architecture, engineering, security, privacy, legal, risk, and AI governance.

Preferred Skills

• Salesforce CRM, Data Cloud, Agentforce APIs, workflow automation, and enterprise integration patterns.
• AI governance frameworks and model/agent evaluation.
• Prompt design, grounding design, AI monitoring, and incident management.
• Enterprise customer data platforms and AI-enabled automation.
• Pharma, life sciences, healthcare, or other regulated-industry experience.