Chief Builder, Distinguished Solution Engineer, Maestro

Salesforce; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a seasoned Senior Enablement Engineer for AI Labs to empower field teams with rapid, credible capabilities around the Salesforce platform. You will shape curricula, certify practitioners, and anchor technical standards across regions and roles.

You will lead high-stakes technical engagements with executives and customers, and you will collaborate with Product to reintegrate field learnings into the product.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in solution engineering, technical architecture, forward deployed engineering, or professional services in senior tech roles.

Responsibilities

• Own internal technical enablement across SE, FDE, Professional Services, Success and Partners; hands-on, not slideware.
• Design and run enablement programs, curricula, certification paths, labs, and champions networks.
• Define standards for builds: tested, governed, reversible, explainable; publish reference patterns.
• Create a reusable reference library from real fieldwork for technologists to adopt.
• Lead the hardest technical engagements and senior customer conversations, providing credible, safe-change explanations.
• Bridge with Product by surfacing field gaps, edge cases, and patterns to inform product
• Scale through a network of technical leaders who can operate without direct supervision.

Skills

Solution Engineering

Technical Architecture

Forward Deployed Eng

Platform Mastery

AI Agents

Enablement at Scale

Travel

Education

Degree or equivalent

Tools

Apex

Flow

Lightning Web Components

Metadata API

Packaging

Release Management

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.

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.

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.

Accommodations

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