Director of Product Management

Salesforce, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 197,000 - 345,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Director of Product Management to set the strategy, vision, and multi-year roadmap for the MeshMesh team.

You will lead a PM organization that translates customer needs into meaningful products and drive executive-level insights and decisions. You will guide a cross-functional team, partner with engineering and Solution Engineering to embed AI tooling, and define success metrics to measure impact across the business.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in product management with 4+ years leading PMs.
• Experience with SaaS and shipping enterprise products at scale.
• Able to translate business requirements into product and technical roadmaps.
• Works effectively with executives and cross-functional leaders.
• Familiar with agentic AI tooling and coaching teams to adopt it.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the product strategy, vision, and multi-year roadmap.
• Lead, hire, coach, and develop a team of product managers.
• Partner with Solution Engineering to embed agentic solution engineering into the product lifecycle, using AI agents and AI coding tools to build prototypes, demos, and proofs of value that validate ideas with customers early.
• Translate customer and field insights into prioritized use cases and clear requirements for engineering.
• Partner with engineering leaders and architects to plan, scope, and deliver the roadmap.
• Define success metrics and use quantitative and qualitative data to drive prioritization and measure impact.
• Work through ambiguity and align executives, Sales, Marketing, Legal, and other internal partners on priorities.
• Communicate product strategy, roadmap, and results to executive leadership, customers, and the field.
• Lead large cross-functional programs from concept through launch and adoption.

Skills

Product management

Leadership

SaaS

AI tools

Roadmapping

Stakeholder comms

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AI coding tools

Agentforce

Job description

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.

Job Category

Product

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.

The Experience

The MeshMesh team is building the next-generation mesh networking platform for Salesforce customers. As the Director of Product Management, you will set the product strategy, vision, and roadmap, and lead a team of product managers who turn customer needs into products that matter.

You will provide insights that fuel critical decisions across the company, including executive leadership.

What You'll Actually Be Doing

• Define and own the product strategy, vision, and multi-year roadmap.
• Lead, hire, coach, and develop a team of product managers.
• Partner with Solution Engineering to embed agentic solution engineering into the product lifecycle, using AI agents and AI coding tools to build prototypes, demos, and proofs of value that validate ideas with customers early.
• Translate customer and field insights into prioritized use cases and clear requirements for engineering.
• Partner with engineering leaders and architects to plan, scope, and deliver the roadmap.
• Define success metrics and use quantitative and qualitative data to drive prioritization and measure impact.
• Work through ambiguity and align executives, Sales, Marketing, Legal, and other internal partners on priorities.
• Communicate product strategy, roadmap, and results to executive leadership, customers, and the field.
• Lead large cross-functional programs from concept through launch and adoption.

You’re Our Person If...

• You have 10+ years of proven experience in product management or a related field, including 4+ years leading product managers.
• You have experience with the SaaS business model and shipping enterprise products at scale.
• You work effectively with technical and business leaders, including executives.
• You can translate business requirements into product and technical requirements and a practical roadmap.
• You navigate decision-making and communicate effectively across teams.
• You are an Agentic Product leader - you build with Claude and similar AI tools, using agent loops, tool use, and you coach your team to do the same.
• You have a degree or equivalent relevant experience.

Even Better If...

• You have experience driving agentic solution engineering practices with Solution Engineering and Engineering teams.
• You love data and analytics, using quantitative and qualitative metrics to build a roadmap.
• You have deep empathy for customers and can work with tech, billing, legal, sales, and data platform teams.
• You have excellent written communication skills.
• You have experience with the Salesforce Platform, including Agentforce, and agile methodologies.
• You can lead through influence across a complex organization.

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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At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions. The typical base salary range for this position is $197,300 - $313,700 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $237,700 - $344,700 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.