Principal Program Manager

Fin; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 189,000 - 226,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Bonus program

Sales incentive

Job summary

Fin, now part of Salesforce, is seeking a Principal Program Manager in San Francisco to shape high-priority programs, align them with company strategy, and drive cross-functional execution. This senior individual contributor role reports to the Senior Manager, Strategic Program Management and focuses on building systems and practices that elevate the entire team.

You will partner with executives to define programs, identify gaps, and enable Fin to achieve its top objectives while mentoring

Qualifications

• 8+ years of program management experience in a fast-paced AI/SaaS B2B environment.
• Direct experience working with senior executives and facilitating alignment across senior-level stakeholders.
• Ability to own multiple high-visibility programs with strong ownership and accountability.
• Proven track record building and improving program management practices and frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Define programs of work with execs to hit top company objectives.
• Take a holistic view across programs and align with company strategy.
• Drive ambiguous problems to clarity by defining structure, roles, and decision-making frameworks.
• Lead cross-functional decision-making with key stakeholders and provide recommendations.
• Identify risks early and drive actions to maintain momentum and course-correct.
• Create and improve program management frameworks and ways of working across Fin.

Skills

Strategic PM

Executive sponsorship

Cross-functional leadership

Risk management

Mentoring

Job description

Fin , now part of Salesforce, is on a mission to help businesses provide perfect customer experiences.

Our AI Agent Fin is the highest-performing AI Customer Agent on the market today, enabling businesses to deliver impeccable, always-on customer support across the customer journey, from service, to sales, to ecommerce. Powered by our own AI models, Fin resolves complex customer issues end-to-end across every channel, with minimal set-up and integration. Fin can also be combined with our natively integrated Intercom help desk, giving modern support teams one single system.

Together with Salesforce, the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success, we're building the future of customer experience. 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.

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.

What's the opportunity?

We're looking for a Principal Program Manager to join the Strategic Program Management team in San Francisco. This is a senior individual contributor role where you shape how Fin’s highest-priority objectives get set up for success and delivered. Reporting to Senior Manager, Strategic Program Management, you'll work directly with senior leaders across every org to turn ambiguous, high-stakes company goals into programs that deliver on their goals. You'll also raise the bar for how program management works at Fin, building the systems and practices that make the whole team, and those that work with you, better.

What will I be doing?

• Partner directly with execs and senior leadership to define programs of work that enable Fin to hit its highest priority company objectives
• Take a holistic view across programs, connecting the dots back to company strategy and surfacing gaps, misalignment, or opportunities to streamline
• Take ambiguous, high-stakes problems and drive them to clarity - defining the right structure, roles, and decision-making frameworks, often from scratch
• Drive cross-functional decision-making by identifying the right stakeholders, surfacing the information they need and recommendations
• Proactively identify program risks and anticipate change before it happens, driving action to course-correct and maintain momentum
• Set and raise the bar for how program management works at Fin - creating new frameworks, challenging existing processes that aren't working, and feeding learnings back into how the team operates
• Hold people accountable at every level, from workstream drivers to exec sponsors, ensuring progress and ownership across complex, cross-functional programs
• Mentor and develop teammates, making the people around you better and faster
• Evangelize program management across the company - shaping how other teams and orgs think about execution, collaboration, and ways of working

What skills do I need?

• You have 8+ years of experience in program management with a track record of leading large, complex, cross-functional programs in a fast paced AI/SaaS B2B environment with an evolving strategy
• Proven experience working directly with senior level leadership, you’re comfortable engaging with and influencing senior executives and leadership to get to the right outcome
• High ownership and agency, with the ability to manage multiple high-profile, high-visibility programs simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
• A strategic thinker who connects execution to company strategy, spots gaps across programs, and understands how mission, product, and financial plan tie together
• You are solutions oriented and proactive when it comes to taking action to solve problems and mitigate risks
• You have strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills with a track record of bringing together senior-level viewpoints and driving alignment
• You’re an excellent self-starter with a track record of seamless execution on complex programs with minimal guidance
• You've built and significantly improved program management practices, frameworks, or ways of working at a previous company
• Excellent communicator who can flex between an exec room and a cross-functional working group, adapting style and depth to the audience
• Experience mentoring or developing others, whether direct reports or peers - you make the people around you better

*Proof of eligibility to work in the United States is required.

The base salary range for candidates within the San Francisco Bay Area is $189,000-$225,750. Actual base pay will depend on a variety of factors such as education, skills, experience, location, etc. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All regular employees may also be eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

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