Senior Director, AI-Driven Data Platform

Slack; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Director of Data Platform to lead Slack's data foundation, guiding a ~40-person team from infrastructure to data products and AI-facing services. You will partner with Data Science & Analytics to push a bold, agentic data platform vision and drive real impact across the organization.

You will build data APIs, semantic layers, and real-time data products, while shaping observability, governance, and MCP strategy to enable AI agents and human analysts to query and

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering, data platform, or infrastructure roles incl. 5+ years in director-level leadership.
• Proven track record building and scaling data platforms (ingestion, warehousing, semantic/metrics layers) at SaaS scale.
• Experience leading through organizational change (reorgs, consolidations, multi-team integrations).
• Demonstrated success partnering with Data Science / Analytics leadership as a peer stakeholder.
• Strong track record hiring, developing, and retaining engineering managers and senior ICs.
• Excellent cross-functional communication skills, with ability to present technical vision to executives.
• A related technical degree is required.

Responsibilities

• Architect data layers for AI agents, designing data APIs, MCP servers, and semantic interfaces.
• Transform semantic layer from human-query to machine-readable knowledge with governance and NL access patterns.
• Build real-time data products with sub-second latency for agent decision-making.
• Ship agentic analytics tooling enabling AI agents to draft queries, detect anomalies, and surface insights.
• Establish AI-native observability with OpenTelemetry GenAI conventions and cost attribution.
• Drive the Data MCP strategy, exposing data assets to AI agents via MCP servers.

Skills

Data platform leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Hiring & mentoring

SaaS data engineering

Data engineering

AI/ML data handling

Education

Related technical degree

Tools

MCP servers

OpenTelemetry GenAI

LLM data integration

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Director of Data Platform to lead Slack's data foundation, guiding a ~40-person team from infrastructure to data products and AI-facing services. You will partner with Data Science & Analytics to push a bold, agentic data platform vision and drive real impact across the organization.

You will build data APIs, semantic layers, and real-time data products, while shaping observability, governance, and MCP strategy to enable AI agents and human analysts to query and