Chief Builder, Distinguished Solution Engineer, Maestro

100 Salesforce, Inc.; Missouri; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Chief Builder and Distinguished Solution Engineer to onboard and empower thousands of field technologists. You will own internal enablement, design scalable curricula, and set the standard for how to build safe, high-quality implementations using Salesforce technologies.

You will engage with Solution Engineers, Forward Deployed Engineers, Professional Services, and Partner ecosystems, driving alignment with Product and field feedback while traveling as needed.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in solution engineering, technical architecture, forward deployed engineering, or professional services at senior level.
• Deep knowledge of the Salesforce platform and its metadata (Apex, Flow, Lightning Web Components, Metadata API, packaging, release management).
• Experience building or running a technical community or champions program.
• Experience across Marketing Cloud, Revenue Cloud, or Data 360.
• Salesforce architect certifications.
• Ability to explain complex technical decisions to engineers, executives, and customers.
• Willingness to travel as needed.

Responsibilities

• Own internal technical enablement.
• Design and run enablement for SE, FDE, PS, Success, and Partner technologists.
• Own curriculum, certification paths, office hours, labs, and champions network across regions and teams.
• Set the technical standard and publish reference patterns.
• Build the reference library from field work.
• Lead the toughest technical engagements and senior customer conversations.
• Scale through others by growing a network of technical leaders across the field.

Skills

Solution engineering

Tech architecture

Forward Deployed

Professional services

Salesforce platform

Apex/Flow/LWC

Education

Degree or equivalent

Job description

Job Category Sales Job Details

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword — it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

Role Description

AI Labs is building an emerging product that changes how Salesforce itself gets built. It reads the environment a customer already has, tells them what to fix first, makes the change, proves the change is safe, and helps them build what is next. A product like this only matters if the people in the field can actually wield it. That is this role. As Chief Builder and Distinguished Solution Engineer, you are the most technically credible person in the room and you use that credibility to get every technical role in our field ready to build: Solution Engineers, Forward Deployed Engineers, Professional Services, Customer Success, and our partner ecosystem. You own internal technical enablement and the programs behind it. You set the standard for what good looks like, and then you make thousands of people capable of reaching it.

Responsibilities

• Own internal technical enablement.
• Design and run the enablement that makes SE, FDE, Professional Services, Success, and Partner technologists genuinely capable with the product. Not slideware. Hands on keyboard, measured by what they can build afterward.
• Own the programming. Build the curriculum, certification path, office hours, build labs, and champions network that carry the capability across every region and every team.
• Set the technical standard. Define what a good build looks like: tested, governed, reversible, explainable. Publish the reference patterns everyone else works from.
• Build the reference library. Turn the best real work in the field into reusable references that any technologist can pick up and run with.
• Be the proof in the room. Lead the hardest technical engagements and the most senior customer conversations. A CIO should be able to ask you why a change is safe and get a real answer.
• Close the loop with Product. Bring back what the field actually hits: the gaps, the sharp edges, and the patterns worth building into the product.
• Scale through others. Grow a network of technical leaders across the field who can run this without you in the room.

Required Experiences & Skills

• Experience. 10+ years in solution engineering, technical architecture, forward deployed engineering, or professional services, including time at the most senior technical level in a field organization.
• Platform mastery. Deep working knowledge of the Salesforce platform and its metadata: Apex, Flow, Lightning Web Components, the Metadata API, packaging, and release management.
• You know where the sharp edges are because you have been cut.
• AI native building. You build with AI coding agents in your daily work and you have a clear view of where they are strong and where they need a human.
• Enablement at scale. You have taken a capability from a handful of experts to thousands of practitioners, and you can show what changed in their output.
• Field credibility. SEs, architects, and services leads take your call. You have earned that by building, not by presenting.
• Communication. You can explain the same technical decision to an engineer, an executive, and a customer, and all three leave with the right understanding.
• Travel. Willingness to travel as needed. Preferred.
• Salesforce certifications at the architect level.
• Experience building or running a technical community or champions program.
• Experience across Marketing Cloud, Revenue Cloud, or Data 360.

Education

Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you'll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we'll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love.

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