Senior Director, Client Infrastructure & AI

Salesforce, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 365,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Senior Director of Engineering to own the Application Architecture and Systems foundations for Slack's client infrastructure across web, desktop, and mobile.

You will lead a 50+ person organization, hire and develop managers, and partner with Product and Design to set a bold technical strategy and high standards for performance and quality. This is a hands-on leadership role in the AI era, shaping shared platforms, accessibility, and the move toward agentic

Qualifications

• Experience leading product infrastructure at a company with a complex, large-scale client application.
• Experience in client infrastructure; web and mobile depth preferred.
• Track record leading large engineering organizations including managing managers and coaching senior leaders.

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 your 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

Client infrastructure

Product collaboration

Hiring & coaching managers

Strategic planning

Education

Related technical degree

Tools

Electron

Job description

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Senior Director of Engineering to own the Application Architecture and Systems foundations for Slack's client infrastructure across web, desktop, and mobile.

You will lead a 50+ person organization, hire and develop managers, and partner with Product and Design to set a bold technical strategy and high standards for performance and quality. This is a hands-on leadership role in the AI era, shaping shared platforms, accessibility, and the move toward agentic