Senior Director, AI Platform & Infrastructure

Salesforce; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 218,000 - 365,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Director of Product Management to lead the vision, roadmap, and delivery of our HyperForce platform. You will manage a team of PMs, align with internal engineering and business leaders, and drive AI-enabled capabilities across multi-substrate architectures.

The role blends strategic leadership with hands-on execution in a rapidly evolving cloud-native environment. The ideal candidate has 10+ years in product management, strong leadership, and deep expertise in

Qualifications

• 10+ Years in Product Management: Proven track record in a senior product leadership role within Infrastructure, Cloud Services, Enterprise Architecture, or Developer Platforms.
• People Leadership: Experience directly managing and growing teams of 3–5+ Product Managers.
• Platform & Infrastructure Expertise: Deep technical domain knowledge in cloud-native platform migrations, enterprise scale, multi-tenant architectures, and developer ecosystems.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Demonstrated success leading large-scale internal alignment and migration efforts across matrixed engineering organizations.
• AI Infrastructure Exposure: Familiarity with hosting, scaling, or enabling AI/ML workloads on cloud infrastructure.
• Communication: Exceptional ability to translate complex, low-level technical infrastructure concepts into clear strategic visions for executives and internal partners.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Vision & Roadmap: Own and execute the end-to-end product strategy for our core infrastructure platform, aligning platform capabilities with broader organizational and AI initiatives.
• Internal Platform Adoption: Work closely with cross-functional internal engineering, operations, and product teams to streamline onboarding and migration onto Hyperforce.
• Multi Substrate Customer engagement: Drive HyperForce multi substrate roadmap, customer and partner stakeholders to deliver on the multi substrate HyperForce vision.
• Support cutting edge AI work: Ensure our platform architecture reliably supports high-scale, next-gen AI workloads and data services across the enterprise.
• Team Leadership & Mentorship: Directly manage, hire, and develop a team of 3–5 Product Managers, fostering a culture of ownership, operational excellence, and user-centric platform design.
• Cross-Functional Stakeholder Alignment: Act as the primary liaison between infrastructure engineering, internal partner teams, and business executives to ensure seamless cross-team integration.
• Metrics & Operational Excellence: Establish KPIs, platform adoption metrics, and reliability benchmarks to measure product performance and velocity.

Skills

Product Management

Leadership

Cloud Infrastructure

Platform Architecture

AI/ML Infra

Cross-Functional

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Director of Product Management to lead the vision, roadmap, and delivery of our HyperForce platform. You will manage a team of PMs, align with internal engineering and business leaders, and drive AI-enabled capabilities across multi-substrate architectures.

The role blends strategic leadership with hands-on execution in a rapidly evolving cloud-native environment. The ideal candidate has 10+ years in product management, strong leadership, and deep expertise in