Director of Strategic Tech Programs & Roadmaps

Salesforce, Inc.; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 171,000 - 273,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Technology Program Management Director to lead strategic program development, roadmap planning, and execution across our engineering organization in the United States.

This role partners with engineering leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to translate priorities into executable programs and measurable outcomes. The successful candidate will combine strong technical fluency with program leadership, driving alignment across multiple teams and coordinating

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading complex technical programs within large-scale software engineering, infrastructure, platform, reliability, or technology organizations.
• Demonstrated experience developing and managing strategic technology roadmaps across multiple teams or functions.
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering and technology delivery practices.
• Proven ability to translate ambiguous strategic goals into structured programs and actionable plans.
• Experience managing large, cross-functional initiatives with significant dependencies and organizational complexity.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Ability to influence senior leaders and technical teams without direct authority.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrated ability to identify risks early, drive decisions, and maintain momentum across complex programs.
• Experience establishing effective planning, governance, and operating mechanisms for engineering organizations.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering leadership to develop and maintain multi-quarter strategic roadmaps aligned to organizational priorities.
• Translate strategy and broad objectives into structured programs, milestones, dependencies, and measurable outcomes.
• Identify gaps, overlaps, sequencing considerations, and cross-team dependencies across the portfolio.
• Facilitate prioritization discussions and help leadership make informed tradeoffs across competing initiatives.
• Establish clear program charters, objectives, success measures, and execution plans for strategic initiatives.
• Lead complex, cross-functional technology programs from definition through execution and adoption.
• Drive alignment across Engineering, Product, Architecture, Operations, Security, Infrastructure, and other partner organizations.
• Establish program governance and operating mechanisms that provide transparency while minimizing unnecessary process and overhead.
• Proactively identify risks, blockers, and dependencies and work with leaders to drive resolution.
• Ensure programs remain focused on business and engineering outcomes rather than activity or milestone completion alone.
• Develop an integrated view of the organization's strategic portfolio, including priorities, timelines, dependencies, risks, and resource considerations.
• Establish consistent operating cadences for roadmap reviews, program reviews, and leadership decision-making.
• Track progress against strategic commitments and surface areas requiring leadership attention or intervention.
• Help evolve planning and execution practices as the organization scales.
• Drive accountability for decisions, commitments, and follow-through across participating teams.
• Serve as a trusted partner to senior engineering leadership.
• Create clear, concise executive-level communications that translate complex technical programs into outcomes, risks, decisions, and recommendations.
• Facilitate leadership discussions and drive decisions when priorities, ownership, or direction are unclear.
• Build strong relationships across organizational boundaries and influence stakeholders at multiple levels of the company.
• Ensure teams have clarity on priorities, decisions, ownership, and next steps.
• Identify opportunities to simplify planning, governance, and execution processes.
• Develop repeatable frameworks and mechanisms that improve organizational effectiveness without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Use program data and metrics to identify trends, execution risks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Champion an outcome-oriented, automation-first approach to program management.

Job description

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Technology Program Management Director to lead strategic program development, roadmap planning, and execution across our engineering organization in the United States.

This role partners with engineering leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to translate priorities into executable programs and measurable outcomes. The successful candidate will combine strong technical fluency with program leadership, driving alignment across multiple teams and coordinating