Product Strategy Director

Salesforce; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 123,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Director, Growth Planning to own how the company decides where to invest and govern growth initiatives from approval to value realization. You will build the business cases behind major investments and run the governance that tracks them to delivered value.

You will partner with Finance, Sales, and Product to align inputs and drive cross-functional collaboration, with a track record of influencing senior leaders and coaching analytics teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in strategy, corporate planning, FP&A, corporate development, or consulting.
• Strong financial modeling and scenario analysis skills.
• Experience running governance processes like investment committees or planning councils.
• History influencing C-suite and VP-level stakeholders across functions.
• Structured, consulting-style problem solving and clear written & verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Own the business case process for major growth and investment initiatives, including revenue, cost, payback and risk assumptions.
• Set standards and templates for business cases for comparability and decision-readiness.
• Run governance cadence for planning and investment reviews, including agenda, rights, escalation, and follow-through.
• Track progress against targets, report variances and realized benefits to leadership, and recommend course corrections.
• Lead trade-off discussions with senior stakeholders to drive decisions with clarity and ownership.
• Partner with Finance, Sales and Product to validate inputs behind each case and alignment with the broader plan.
• Prepare executive materials and narratives for planning cycles and leadership reviews.
• Build and mentor a small team of planning and analytics talent.

Skills

Strategy & FP&A

Governance processes

Stakeholder influence

Financial modeling

Executive communication

Coaching & mentoring

Tools

SQL

Python

BI tools

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.

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We are a newly formed, fast-growing team in Salesforce’s Chief Customer Officer (CCO) organization, within the Office of the CEO. We sit at the intersection of customer insight, pricing and packaging, field readiness, executive narrative, and go-to-market execution. We work directly with senior leaders across Product, Field, Pricing, Marketing, Finance, and Customer Success to frame the company’s most important strategic questions and drive them to decision.

We are hiring a Director, Growth Planning to own how the company decides where to invest and holds itself to the results. You will build the business cases behind major growth investments and run the governance that tracks them from approval to delivered value.

The Role

• Own the business case process for major growth and investment initiatives. This includes the revenue, cost, payback, and risk assumptions, and the scenario models behind them.
• Set the standards and templates for business cases, so proposals across Product, Field, and Pricing are comparable and decision-ready.
• Run the governance cadence for planning and investment reviews. This covers the agenda, decision rights, escalation paths, and follow-through.
• Track approved initiatives against committed targets. Report progress, variances, and benefits realization to executive leadership, and recommend course corrections.
• Lead trade‑off discussions with senior stakeholders and drive them to a clear decision without direct authority.
• Partner with Finance, Sales, and Product to set, challenge, and align the assumptions and inputs behind each case and the broader plan.
• Make sound recommendations from imperfect or incomplete inputs, and be explicit about risks and confidence levels.
• Prepare executive materials and narratives for planning cycles and leadership reviews.
• Build and mentor a small team of planning and analytics talent, and set the bar for rigor and quality.

You’re Our Person If

• You have 10+ years of experience in strategy, corporate planning, FP&A, corporate development, or consulting, including ownership of complex investment cases.
• You have deep financial modeling and scenario analysis skills, and you are comfortable with ambiguity.
• You have run or shaped governance processes, such as investment committees, planning councils, or program reviews, and you make them effective rather than bureaucratic.
• You have a record of influencing C‑suite and VP‑level stakeholders across functions and building consensus.
• You use broad business judgment and a structured, consulting‑style approach to problem solving.
• You communicate clearly, in writing and in person, to executive audiences.
• You coach and develop others.

Even Better If

• You have a consulting or broad cross‑functional background.
• You have experience with business intelligence tools or basic coding (for example SQL or Python).
• You understand enterprise software economics, including bookings, revenue, retention, and cost‑to‑serve.
• You have experience with consumption‑based or usage‑based pricing models.
• You have experience with benefits tracking or value realization frameworks.

Unleash Your Potential

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Accommodations

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In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

The typical base salary range for this position is $123,100 - $227,000 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $147,400 - $247,900 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.