Director of Agentic AI & Forward-Deployed Engineering

Salesforce, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 197,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. seeks a technically adept Agent Builder Leader to head the Forward Deployed Engineering Team.

You will guide a high-performing team to deliver agentic AI solutions with customers, setting standards and an operating model for enterprise adoption and product roadmapping across our customer base. You will lead across Product, Engineering, and Sales to shape strategy, ensure governance, and drive secure, scalable deployments, influencing widespread adoption of Agentic AI

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building and scaling enterprise-grade applications or enterprise AI systems.
• 5+ years in leadership roles overseeing technical teams.
• Excellent communication and ability to influence executive stakeholders.
• Deep knowledge of AI deployments, RAG, vector databases, and knowledge bases.

Responsibilities

• Define long-term strategy for Agentic AI deployments across industries.
• Establish reference architectures for MCP, inter-agent communication, and AI orchestration.

Skills

Leadership

Executive influence

AI implementations

LLM landscape

Distributed systems

Multi-agent orchestration

Strategic thinking

Travel availability

Job description

Salesforce, Inc. seeks a technically adept Agent Builder Leader to head the Forward Deployed Engineering Team.

You will guide a high-performing team to deliver agentic AI solutions with customers, setting standards and an operating model for enterprise adoption and product roadmapping across our customer base. You will lead across Product, Engineering, and Sales to shape strategy, ensure governance, and drive secure, scalable deployments, influencing widespread adoption of Agentic AI