Senior AI-Driven Data Platform Director

Slack; New York (NY); On-site; USD 218,000 - 401,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Director of Data Engineering to lead a ~40-person organization overseeing the full data stack—from ingestion to data products, semantics, and AI-facing services. You’ll partner with Data Science & Analytics while driving a bold vision for agentic data platforms.

This role focuses on building scalable data platforms, AI-ready tooling, and governance to empower both human analysts and AI agents within Salesforce’s data ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering, data platform, or infra roles, with 5+ years in leadership at director level or above.
• Proven track record building and scaling data platforms at SaaS scale.
• Experience leading through organizational change and cross-team coordination.
• Strong collaboration with Data Science/Analytics leadership.

Responsibilities

• Architect data layers and APIs for AI agents to query Slack's data.
• Evolve semantic layer and metrics platform for machine readability and governance.
• Build real-time data products for sub-second decision-making and experimentation.
• Ship agentic analytics tooling for self-serve analytics and AI-driven insights.
• Establish AI-native observability and cost attribution across the stack.
• Drive MCP strategy for exposing data to AI agents and developers.

Skills

Data architecture

Leadership

Data pipelines

MCP/AI tools

Executive communication

Cloud platforms

Python/Scala

SQL

Education

Related technical degree

Tools

Airflow

SQL

LLMs/AI agents

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Director of Data Engineering to lead a ~40-person organization overseeing the full data stack—from ingestion to data products, semantics, and AI-facing services. You’ll partner with Data Science & Analytics while driving a bold vision for agentic data platforms.

This role focuses on building scalable data platforms, AI-ready tooling, and governance to empower both human analysts and AI agents within Salesforce’s data ecosystem.