Senior Director, AI-Driven Client Infrastructure

Salesforce, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 401,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. seeks an experienced Senior Director of Engineering to own Slack's Application Architecture and Systems foundations across web, desktop, and mobile.

You will lead a 50+ person organization, set long-term technical strategy, and partner with Product to define a focused roadmap in the era of AI-assisted development. You will champion performance, reliability, and accessibility while building a distributed, global, hybrid team and delivering high-impact infrastructure for millions

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading product infrastructure engineering at a company with a complex, large-scale client application.
• Experience in client infrastructure; web and mobile are a plus with depth in one.
• Track record leading large engineering organizations, including managing managers and coaching senior leaders.
• Ability to set technical strategy and work with Product and Design to turn it into a roadmap.
• Able to hold teams to a high bar on performance, reliability, and quality.
• Collaborates effectively across functions without direct authority over all parties.
• Related technical degree.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering organization — Own the Application Architecture and Systems engineering organization across web, desktop, and mobile.
• Hire, develop, and retain engineering managers and senior ICs.
• Set technical strategy — Define and drive the multi-year technical vision and roadmap for Slack's client infrastructure.
• Partner with Product counterparts to set ambitious strategy and make clear tradeoffs.
• Raise the bar on engineering excellence — Establish high standards for performance, reliability, quality, and craft in the team's work and culture.
• Evolve development for the agentic era — Reshape how client engineering teams build and ship so they can move faster without sacrificing quality, including with AI coding agents.
• Own shared platforms — Steward the frameworks, components, design-system foundations, and internal client APIs that every Slack product team depends on.
• Champion accessibility — Make accessibility a first-class part of how Slack is built.
• Partner across the company — Collaborate with executive peers in Product, Design, and Engineering across Slack and Salesforce to align priorities and resolve dependencies.
• Build a connected, global team — Unite a distributed, hybrid organization into a cohesive, high-performing culture.
• Up-level team performance — In your first 60–90 days, assess the org, set strategy, and raise technical excellence and team performance.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Product infrastructure

Client infrastructure

Roadmap development

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Related technical degree

Tools

Electron

Design systems

APIs

Job description

Salesforce, Inc. seeks an experienced Senior Director of Engineering to own Slack's Application Architecture and Systems foundations across web, desktop, and mobile.

You will lead a 50+ person organization, set long-term technical strategy, and partner with Product to define a focused roadmap in the era of AI-assisted development. You will champion performance, reliability, and accessibility while building a distributed, global, hybrid team and delivering high-impact infrastructure for millions