Senior Director, AI Platform Design & Ecosystem

Salesforce; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 263,000 - 401,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Director, Product Design - Ecosystem for Slack. You will own the design vision across Slack's developer platform, partnering with product and engineering leadership, and lead a small team while remaining hands-on in the design work yourself.

This player-coach role shapes how developers build on Slack, guides agent creation, management, and marketplace discovery, and partners with OpenAI, Anthropic, Cognition, and GitHub to bring agents into the ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product design experience, including work on developer-facing or highly technical products.
• Experience managing and growing design teams.
• Hands-on experience with AI and vibe-coding tools, and a solid understanding of developer workflows.
• A track record of partnering with product and engineering leadership to define and refine product direction through design.

Responsibilities

• Hold and refine the long-range design vision for the platform in partnership with product and engineering leadership.
• Drive design across the full developer lifecycle: agent creation, install and management, and marketplace discovery.
• Shape how partners like OpenAI, Anthropic, Cognition, GitHub bring their agents into the ecosystem.
• Contribute directly to the design work as a player-coach, setting the craft bar for the team.
• Grow and develop the platform design team, owning staffing and career development for the designers on it.

Skills

Product design

Managing design teams

AI tooling

Leadership collaboration

Tools

AI tooling

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Director, Product Design - Ecosystem for Slack. You will own the design vision across Slack's developer platform, partnering with product and engineering leadership, and lead a small team while remaining hands-on in the design work yourself.

This player-coach role shapes how developers build on Slack, guides agent creation, management, and marketplace discovery, and partners with OpenAI, Anthropic, Cognition, and GitHub to bring agents into the ecosystem.